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Now cross-crossing Virginia campaigning to be its next governor, Pete Snyder doesn’t often get to eat breakfast with his child.
Recently, however, he did. After they ate, his daughter Bee, 6, showed him something special hanging on her bulletin board. There, above her desk, Bee had pinned three of her father’s campaign bumper stickers to her bulletin board. It was a proud dad moment for the candidate.
Foxwood Drive, 2/21, 9:18 p.m. Deputy F.A. Martinez responded for a report of an accident. The deputy learned the suspect, Ismael Sanchez Orellana, 43, of Annandale, had crossed over into the oncoming traffic lane striking the victim’s vehicle head-on. Sanchez Orellana smelled of alcoholic beverages and had glassy eyes. Field sobriety tests were administered and Sanchez Orellana was arrested. He was charged with driving under the influence-2nd offense in 5 years and driving on a revoked license. He was held without bond at the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
The principals and staff at Forest Park High School near Dumfries are ready to welcome children back to the classroom, said Richard Martinez, the school’s principal.
Martinez briefed the county School Board during its meeting on Feb. 17, 2021. Here’s what he said.
U.S. flags won’t be flying on utility poles in Manassas neighborhoods, after all.
City leaders on Saturday quashed a pilot program that would have expanded the city’s flag ordinance to include residential neighborhood streets. For the first time, Old Glory would be allowed to hang on city-owned utility poles in those neighborhoods, the same as it does downtown.
Jim Giragosian, a 28 year resident of the Gainesville District in Prince William County and Falun Gong practitioner, spoke to the Board of County Supervisors on Feb. 16, 2021, about atrocities happening to those who practice the religion in China.
In communities across the country and around the world, we are seeing unprecedented calls for justice for all people. Not just for a single race or single ethnicity, or a single sexual orientation, but for everyone.
Prince William Education Association President Maggie Hansford spoke before the Prince William County School Board on February 8 to push for raises for school employees.
I just want to start off by making Dr. Walts for making educators a priority in this year’s budget.
A restaurant and a grocery store were the targets of burglars on Thursday, Feb. 18.
Two businesses on Build America Drive, off Route 1 in Woodbridge, were broken into.
Here’s our full list of local school and university closings.
Check our Twitter list below, full of storm updates from local governments, utilities, and transportation agencies.
