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Schools

Original | Osbourn High School gets the beat, starts indoor drumline

By Uriah Kiser

For the first time in its school’s history, Osbourn High School has created an indoor drumline. A group of 16 students in the Manassas high school, from grades 7 to 12, all bonded this year through a passion for percussion.

Drumline students have been spending most weekday evenings practicing, spending hours rehearsing to perfect a performance that will last just five minutes. Some of their weekends have been sacrificed to fundraise to cover the cost of purchasing equipment, drum sticks, mallets, props, and purchase uniforms, said band mom and spokeswoman Erica Washington.

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News

Exclusive | Stafford’s low-hanging, forgotten bridge may be replaced after all

By Uriah Kiser
A redesigned I-95/Route 17 interchange near Falmouth includes new lanes down the median of the interstate, and a new exit ramp from I-95 north that would lead drivers to a signal light on Route 17, shown in yellow. [Image: VDOT]

One of four bridges that carry drivers on Interstate 95 over Route 17 near Falmouth is too low.

There are signs all over the intersection in Stafford County waring trucks that are too tall to go under the bridge to take another route. In fact, if a truck that’s too tall approaches the bridge a blaring alarm rings out in an effort to warn the driver. It can be an unsettling sound if you’re driving by when this happens.

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We’ve got some big changes coming to Potomac Local News in February

By Uriah Kiser
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Since we launched our paid subscriber program two years ago, you’ve spoken and we’ve listened.

In February, we’re launching a newly redesigned weekday email newsletter and website at PotomacLocalNews.com that will be easier to read, with even more local content.

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Warning lights to be installed on Route 1 ahead of bridge, toll lane work

By Uriah Kiser
Photo: VDOT

They’re not wasting any time. Work to bring down the Truslow Road bridge over Interstate 95 will begin this week.

Demolition of the two-lane bridge will make way for an extension E-ZPass Express toll lanes that will be extended down the median of the highway to southern Stafford County, from Garrisonville Road in the northern end of the county.

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Traffic

Original | I-95 plan calls for ‘Red X’ lanes, widening in Spotsylvania

By Uriah Kiser
Route 17 at Interstate 95 in Stafford County.

Can you imagine using the shoulder lane on Interstate 95 to get where you’re going in Northern Virginia?

State transportation officials can. In fact, in a process they call “hardening the shoulders,” they’re proposing turning the emergency pull-off area on both the north and southbound sides of the highway into travel lanes.

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Opinion: If gun rights brought them here, maybe they’ll stick around for more action

By Uriah Kiser
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Conservatives have momentum after yesterday’s peaceful Second Amendment rights march in Richmond.

Predictions of Antifa, or white supremacists groups infiltrating the march to incite a riot similar to what we saw in Charlottesville in 2017, didn’t happen. Governor Ralph Northam is taking credit for de-escalating what he said could have been a dangerous situation.

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Prince William

Franklin snags multiple titles early, heads OmniRide Commission

By Uriah Kiser

Angela Franklin may new on the block, but that’s not stopping her from being placed into important positions in the community.

The newly-elected Woodbridge District Supervisor announced she will replace former Lake Ridge District Supervisor Ruth Anderson as Chair of the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission Board of Commissioners (OmniRide).

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CVTV, Fredericksburg’s community TV station, pulls the plug

By Uriah Kiser

The Fredericksburg region’s community TV station will air its last program this weekend.

Central Virginia Public Access Television (CVTV) has been on the air in Fredericksburg City, Spotsylvania and Stafford counties since Summer 2013. Most recently, the channel has appeared on Verizon Fios channel 34 in Spotsylvania and Stafford counties.

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