Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

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

Published January 28, 2020 at 6:49PM

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

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 28, 2020 at 12:17AM | Updated February 2, 2020 at 9:32PM

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.

Prince William

Exclusive: Prince William County Fair to return Aug. 14-22

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 27, 2020 at 9:55AM

The Prince William County Fair will return for 2020, August 14-22.

The announcement comes as fair officials at the Prince William Veterans Farm Club last year announced the fair in 2019, which was in its 70th year, would be its last.

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

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 21, 2020 at 11:56AM

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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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Manassas Delegate Lee Carter on Twitter tirade: Says police made threats ahead of today’s 2-A rally

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 20, 2020 at 4:15AM

Apparently, he had a lot to get off his chest.

Manassas Delegate Lee Carter spent the weekend on social media telling people to ‘shut the f!#k up’

Prince William

Franklin snags multiple titles early, heads OmniRide Commission

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 20, 2020 at 1:30AM

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

Published January 17, 2020 at 2:39PM | Updated January 17, 2020 at 4:37PM

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.

Prince William

Rural Crescent debate to Deputy CXO: Horner tapped for new role

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 16, 2020 at 12:47PM

From the Prince William County Planning office to the county executive’s suite: Rebecca Horner will replace Chris Price as a deputy county executive, who left the county last fall to take a new job as the city manager in Chesapeake.

County press release | Following an extensive national search, the County Executive appointed Rebecca Horner as a Deputy County Executive for Community Development. The Board of County Supervisors concurred with the County Executive’s decision to appoint Horner, who will begin the position effective immediately.

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New info from Stafford: Truslow Road detour coming w/ no signal light

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 13, 2020 at 8:46PM | Updated January 14, 2020 at 11:38AM

Updated 11:30 a.m Jan. 14 | In the post below, we told you we would follow up with Stafford County officials on a request from the Board of Supervisors to the Commonwealth Transportation Board in Richmond, or a request to add a temporary signal light at Route 1 and Truslow Road.

Statement from the county | At this time, we have not heard any response from the Secretary of Transportation, to which we sent the letter.

Business

Exclusive | Manassas restaurateur ends fight with city: ‘My heart is broken’

By Uriah Kiser

Published January 13, 2020 at 8:04PM | Updated February 2, 2020 at 9:32PM

Peres posted this photo of the exterior wall of her Downtown Manassas restaurant to her Facebook page.

Carmello’s Restaurant ended its fight with the city today.

Owner Alice Pires says she began the process of removing the wrought-iron fixtures on the windows of her Downtown Manassas eatery that caused such a stir with the city’s Architectural Review Board (ARB) last summer, and later in the year with the city council.