Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Future of Manassas baseball league fields to be discussed Monday

Published November 13, 2020 at 4:06PM | Updated November 17, 2020 at 5:35PM

E.G. Smith Baseball Complex in Manassas [Photo: Greater Manassas Baseball League]

The future of baseball in Manassas will be discussed at a City Council work session Monday night.

The Greater Manassas Baseball League, which offers baseball to boys and girls between the ages of eight and 18, will meet with elected leaders to discuss the future of its E.G. Smith Baseball Complex, formerly an eight-baseball field complex at the corner of Route 28 and Godwin Drive.

Traffic

Wider Route 1 in Woodbridge now open to traffic

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 12, 2020 at 4:40PM

Route 1 in Woodbridge has been widened to six lanes at Marumsco Creek. [VDOT]

Drivers along about a mile of Route 1 now have six travel lanes and bicyclists and pedestrians have a continuous shared-use path and sidewalk from Mary’s Way to Annapolis Way, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Northbound Route 1 now has three travel lanes and a continuous six-foot-wide sidewalk from Marys Way to Annapolis Way, while southbound Route 1 now has three travel lanes and a continuous ten-foot-wide shared-use path from Annapolis Way to Marys Way.

News

Occoquan Dam siren to be tested next week

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 12, 2020 at 4:02PM

Occoquan

Occoquan residents will once again hear the blaring sound of a warning siren used to alert residents in the event of a dam break.

Fairfax Water will sound the siren on Wednesday, November 18, at 10 a.m. According to the water service’s website, the sirens were installed to warn residents of the Town of Occoquan, which lies below the dam, “in the highly unlikely” even of a massive failure.

Originals

Manassas will allow students return to sports, classroom

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 12, 2020 at 3:15PM | Updated November 17, 2020 at 5:36PM

Student-athletes at Osbourn High School will return to the field on December 7.

That’s the start of winter sports, as outlined by the Virginia High School Leauge and Gov. Ralph Northam, who is permitting student-athletes to return to the game for the first time since schools first closed due to the coronavirus pandemic in March.

News

Stafford denied special meeting to discuss library powers

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 9, 2020 at 5:07PM

Meg Bohmke and Tom Coen will serve as the Chairman and Vice Chairman, respectively, of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors in 2020.

Stafford County is the largest jurisdiction in the Central Rappahannock Regional Library System.

That means that at $5.4 million, the county — and its taxpayers – pay the most into the system that spans four counties, one city, with 10 library branches. But just because it pays more doesn’t mean it sways more.

News

Exclusive: Mysterious woman thwarts McDonald’s robbery

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 9, 2020 at 5:00PM | Updated November 9, 2020 at 5:50PM

A female bystander stopped a man from taking cash from a register at a McDonalds restaurant in North Staffed. [Submitted photo: Dean Bell]

A woman stopped a man from walking out of a McDonald’s with an undisclosed amount of cash on Saturday, November 7.

Dean Bell was had just ordered a fries and a Coke and was standing at the counter waiting to get his food when he saw a man walked up to the register and stick his hand in the till.

Prince William

Arrest made after quadruple shooting in Dale City

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 5, 2020 at 6:43PM

Police say they have a suspect in custody following the shooting death of two people at a Halloween party on Bristol Court in Dale City in the early morning hours of Sunday, November 1.

A total of four people were shot in the incident, which was followed by another shooting seriously injured another man later that same day, at a home on Hackwood Street in Dale City.

News

Manassas City Council race likely headed to recount

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 5, 2020 at 5:46PM

Lovejoy

Councilman Ian Lovejoy is now shy of 75 votes of holding onto his seat on the Manassas City Council, and a recount is likely.

When the polls closed on Election Day, poll workers failed to add together the vote totals from the two optical scanning voting machines used at the city’s Metz Precinct. When the numbers were added together the next morning, Lovejoy (R) picked up 100 more votes putting his race into recount territory.

News

Jeff Rouse Swim Center loses thousands of members

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 4, 2020 at 3:54PM | Updated November 5, 2020 at 9:32AM

After strict lockdowns were lifted, membership numbers are rebounding at Stafford County’s indoor swimming center.

The Jeff Rouse Swim and Sport Center, at 1600 Mine Road, provides a place for swim teams and its members to use a 50-meter competition swimming pool.

News

Election Day in Virginia largely uneventful, state officials say

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 3, 2020 at 6:24PM

Virginia Department of Elections Commissioner Chris Piper (right) updates reporters on Election Day, November 3, 2020.

Elections officials hope to have their first count of absentee ballots by 11 p.m., four hours after polls close in the state.

“The department of elections gave localities a cut-off time of 11 p.m. to stop counting ballots,” said Virginia Department of Elections Commissioner Chris Piper.