Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Sale agreement expected on same day Dumfries to vote on homeless shelter

Published September 11, 2020 at 1:06PM | Updated September 11, 2020 at 8:17PM

Grace Church at 1006 Williamstown Boulevard in Dumfries. [Photo: MRIS}

Updated at 8:15 p.m.

Prince William County is set to reach a purchase agreement for a new homeless shelter on the same day the Dumfries Town Council is set to decide whether or not it will allow the facility — which is located in one of the regions most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Opinion

Letter: Prince William Supervisors ignored residents on Route 28 bypass

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 10, 2020 at 3:48PM

My name is Kaycee Emilienburg and I reside in Coles District in Prince William County. On Tuesday, September 8, 2020, I waited, via Zoom, in a green room prepared to offer the following remarks to the Prince William County Board of Supervisors during the citizen’s comment time.

Four hours and 29 minutes later, I was given my three minutes in the sun to speak. By then, without hearing one word from me or the many others who were on deck to speak since 2 p.m., Chair Wheeler and her Democrat colleagues had elevated betrayal to an Olympic-quality event virtually rendering moot most of our remarks.

News

Regular hours restored at Rappahannock landfill in Stafford County

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 10, 2020 at 2:12PM | Updated September 10, 2020 at 3:10PM

The Rappahannock Regional Solid Waste Management Board (R-Board) will be restoring residential service hours.

Sunday and Monday residential service hours have been restored through CARES Act funding. Commerical hours of operation will remain unchanged.

News

Body of missing Fredericksburg man found in Rappahannock

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 9, 2020 at 6:25PM

The body of a Fredericksburg man who went missing over the weekend has been found in the Rappahannock River.

The Stafford sheriff’s office tells us:

News

Police review board powers ‘extremely concerning’ to law enforcement

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 9, 2020 at 3:18PM

Prince William County is watching multiple bills in the General Assembly that its legal consultant says could have an adverse impact on law enforcement and taxpayers.

The first is a bill that would allow anyone who feels like a police officer has deprived them of their rights the ability to sue the police officer and the jurisdiction in which the officer is employed. The bill by Delegate Jeffery Bourne (D-Richmond) passed the House of Delegates with a 49-45 vote with three abstentions and is expected to now go to the Senate.

Traffic

Richmond Highway new preferred name for Route 1

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 9, 2020 at 11:07AM

The process to rename Route 1 in Prince William County began in earnest early this morning.

The Board of County Supervisors voted unanimously just before 2 a.m. to ask Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation to rename Jefferson Davis Highway to Richmond Highway.

News

Body of missing Manassas teen found in Rappahannock River

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 9, 2020 at 10:32AM

Crews search the Rappahannock River for the body of a missing teenager. [Photo: Stafford County Sheriff's Office]

A massive search effort has revealed the body of a missing teenager from Manassas.

The body of Hasnain Ghafoor, 15, was found early this morning, near the Chatham Bridge over the Rappahannock River, which links Stafford County and Fredericksburg.

News

Republicans rally vote to oppose asphalt plant near Manassas

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 9, 2020 at 12:35AM

Prince William County Brentsville District Supervisor Jeanine Lawson

Republicans on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors worked late into the night to convince Democrats to vote against an asphalt plant that would be built on 22 acres of land next to the Blackburn residential neighborhood.

“Don’t support big business,” Brentsville District Supervisor Jeanine Lawson said. “The Democrats up here say they want to work with us, but they continue to shove these projects down our throats.”

Schools

Prince William schools awarded $20 million for new laptops

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 8, 2020 at 10:13PM

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Prince William County Public Schools now has $20 million federal CARES Act funding.

The award was made by the Board of County Supervisors during its Tuesday meeting. The new money is in addition to $5 million that supervisors have already given to the school division since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

News

Prince William reverses course, opts for Godwin Drive extension

By Uriah Kiser

Published September 8, 2020 at 6:45PM | Updated January 29, 2024 at 8:25AM

Plans for a four-lane bypass, an extension of Godwin Drive, were restored at Tuesday’s Prince William Board of County Supervisors meeting.

Supervisors voted along party lines 5-3 to overturn a unanimous vote the Board made a month ago and chose to proceed with designing a four-lane extension of Godwin Drive from Novant/UVA Health Prince William Medical Center in Manassas to the intersection of Route 28 and Compton Road in Fairfax County.