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A trash truck overturned Friday morning at the intersection of Ramoth Church, near the intersection of Centreport Parkway near the Stafford Regional Airport about 9:30 a.m.
Stafford fire and rescue chief Joseph Cardello tells us:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
