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Manassas will allow students return to sports, classroom

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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Stafford denied special meeting to discuss library powers

By Uriah Kiser
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.

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Exclusive: Mysterious woman thwarts McDonald’s robbery

By Uriah Kiser
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.

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Arrest made after quadruple shooting in Dale City

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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Manassas City Council race likely headed to recount

By Uriah Kiser
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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.

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Election Day in Virginia largely uneventful, state officials say

By Uriah Kiser
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.

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Santa is coming to Potomac Mills despite coronavirus

By Uriah Kiser
Potomac Mills mall at 2700 Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge.

We’re about to find out if the mall Santa Claus will retain his popularity in the time of coronavirus.

Potomac Mills mall just announced Santa will be seen only by appointment this season. The jolly old elf will begin seeing children at the Woodbridge shopping mall later this month.

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Interview: Theresa Coates Ellis for Manassas Mayor

By Uriah Kiser

Voters in Manassas will head to the polls tomorrow to vote for a slew of candidates, and one of them is for city mayor.

Theresa Coates Ellis is the Republican candidate for mayor. She’s been on the City Council since 2018, and she hopes to succeed Hal Parrish II, whose been mayor since 2008 and a member of the City Council since 1993.

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