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Residential developers once again have their eyes set on western Prince Willam County.
A plan to build up to 516 new single-family homes is expected to bring out county residents to a town hall meeting at 7 p.m.
If you have a voice fit for a new baseball stadium, the Fredericksburg Nationals might have a job for you.
The FredNats are looking for singers and announcers for its Minor League Baseball park when it opens for its first home game against the Frederick Keys in April.
The “Cheer’s” of Lake Ridge, as it’s known, will soon expand to a second location.
Water’s End Brewery will open a new taproom at the Potomac Festival Shopping Center in Woodbridge, across from Potomac Mills mall. It’ll be located next to where the old Ornery Brewery was located, which was demolished late last year to make way for a new Texas Roadhouse restaurant.
Now there’s a way to use the tolled lanes on Virginia’s highways without having to use an E-ZPass.
A new app that can be downloaded to your cell phone will allow you to register your license plate, and then pay to use toll lanes like the E-ZPass Express Lanes on Interstate 95, 395, and 495. An E-ZPass or E-ZPass Flex transponder is not required.
In an about-face, the Dumfries Town Council voted to approve a conditional use permit clearing the way for a new gaming parlor to open in the town.
The Town Council voted 5-3 Tuesday night in favor of allowing the Rosie’s, a pari-mutuel off-track betting parlor, to open in Triangle Shopping Center, located in the heart of town.
Civil Air Patrol members from Fredericksburg and Manassas were called to search for a missing North Carolina man.
They were dispatched to the Tar Heel State to help search search for Joseph Peel, 86, who went missing from a nursing home in Como, N.C. Officials said he walked away from the home.
Traffic flowing freely again at a busy intersection outside Fredericksburg.
Work to improve the Route 3 Business (Kings Highway) and Route 606 (Ferry Road) intersection in Stafford County is complete, with all new and extended turn lanes open to traffic.
Members of O.W.L. V.F.D and the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue (DFR) visited over 40 homes on Saturday to educate the community on the importance of smoke detectors.
Firefighters fanned out in the River Ridge community just off Route 1 in Woodbridge to test smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and change batteries.
Stafford County officials presented a plan that would radically change the county’s courthouse neighborhood, making it a hotbed for new broadband technologies.
“Stafford is going to be ground zero for these things,” said Tom Foley, Stafford County administrator. “There are two places in the state where the state government is investing — Arlington and Stafford.”
Novant Health UVA Health System Prince William Medical Center recently became one of the first hospitals in Northern Virginia to offer robotic-arm assisted total knee and partial knee replacements with Stryker’s Mako System.
This advanced robotic technology assists the surgeon and improves accuracy, the hospital tells us. It is using the Mako Total Knee application, which is a knee replacement treatment option designed to relieve the pain caused by joint degeneration due to osteoarthritis. Through CT-based, 3D modeling of bone anatomy, surgeons can use the Mako System to create a personalized surgical plan and identify the implant size, orientation, and alignment based on each patient’s unique anatomy.
