Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Woodbridge firefighters fan out for smoke alarm education

Published February 16, 2020 at 2:28PM

Photo: OWL VFD

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.

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‘Downtown Stafford’ to be testbed for new Virginia smart city, awarded CIT grant

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 10, 2020 at 9:57PM

Stafford County Economic Development Director John Holden. [Photo: Uriah Kiser Potomac Local News]

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.”

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UVA/Novant introduces robotic-arm assisted knee surgery

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 10, 2020 at 9:50PM

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.

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Original | City’s new cigarette-butt bins curb river pollution, made possible by cigarette maker

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 6, 2020 at 11:45PM | Updated February 8, 2020 at 9:19AM

Photo: Fredericksburg City.

Downtown Fredericksburg residents have a tobacco company to thank in the fight to keep the city beautiful.

The city received 30 new cigarette buttlers, which are mounted on sidewalk trashcans and serve as a place for smokers to snuff out their butts. They’re located mainly along Caroline and William streets, two of downtown’s busiest thoroughfares.

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Mr. President: I was impeached, too, for running an underground newspaper

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 5, 2020 at 1:30PM | Updated February 5, 2020 at 1:57PM

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On this day that the president is set to be exonerated after his impeachment trial, I stumbled on to a memory that I didn’t even recall until now.

Mr. Trump, I want you to know that I’ve been impeached, too.

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Original | Effort to bring gaming parlor to Dumfries fails, council denies permit

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 4, 2020 at 11:20PM | Updated February 5, 2020 at 8:33AM

Dumfries Town Council

The effort to bring gambling to Dumfries is dead in the water.

The Town Council voted 4-3 to deny a conditional use permit that would have allowed an 18,000 square-foot Rosie’s Gaming Emporium, an off-track pari-mutuel betting parlor, in the Triangle Shopping Center at the corner of Route 1 and Graham Park Road.

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Original | Wiggins appointed to Prince William Service Authority, Wheeler chastised

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 4, 2020 at 5:01PM | Updated February 5, 2020 at 12:20PM

Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chair At-large Ann Wheeler. [Photo: Uriah Kiser/Potomac Local News]

After much public outcry and debate, Harry Wiggins won a political appointment to the Prince William County Service Authority.

Supervisors voted 6-2 Tuesday to appoint the controversial, former county Democratic Party Chairman as the at-large member of the county’s water and sewer authority. The appointment to the high-profile, independent, non-political commission comes after Wiggins was fined by the Virginia State Board of Elections in 2018 after he founded a political action committee called Republicans for Stanley Bender, and then failing to register it with the state as required by law.

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Original | ‘Scrabble Scramble’ game night to raise funds for adult literacy

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 4, 2020 at 3:08PM | Updated February 5, 2020 at 7:34AM

Photo: BEACON for Adult Literacy Facebook page

A popular game night will return to Bristow next month in an effort to raise money for adult literacy.

BEACON for Adult Literacy’s “Scrabble Scramble” features 35 tables, each with a team of four players, all who sit down to play two rounds of the word-making game. Teams play for prizes, eat pizza, and can participate in a raffle for items, including a $100 southwest airline gift card, salon gift cards, a gift basket from Chick-fil-A Bristow.

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Exclusive | Man who called Prince William Sup ‘NRA whore’ to be appointed to Service Authority

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 3, 2020 at 5:00PM | Updated February 4, 2020 at 11:21PM

Wiggins speaks to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Jan. 7, 2020, asking it to urge lawmakers in Richmond to tighten restrictions on the right to bear arms.

The man who called a sitting Prince William County Supervisor a “whore” for the NRA could soon be on the county’s water and sewer authority.

Ann Wheeler, County Board Chair, At-large, seeks to appoint Harry Wiggins as an At-Large member of the Prince William County Service Authority, one of the multiple agencies that provide water service to county residents.

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Exclusive | Manassas Park outlines plan to leave Prince William library, privatize services

By Uriah Kiser

Published February 3, 2020 at 4:00AM | Updated March 31, 2020 at 2:13PM

The Manassas Park City Hall.

Manassas Park is ready to take the next steps to leave the Prince William Public Library System and open its own library.

To do so, city leaders want to hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 18 on a plan to hire California-based firm Library Systems & Services to operate a new library that would be located at 9701 Manassas Drive. That’s the site of the old General’s Ridge Golf Course that was shuttered last year.