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Be heard: Manassas to survey its 17 city parks in 2020

By Uriah Kiser
Kinsley Mill Park on Hastings Drive. [Photo: Manassas Parks, Culture, and Recreation]

Members of the Manassas Parks and Recreation Committee will soon fan out into public parks with a mission.

The 11-member board plans to pick up clipboards, and armed with a checklist will perform an inventory of facilities at the city’s 17 public parks. They’ll be checking for litter, the quality and condition of park benches, playground equipment, landscaping, picnic tables, and making sure park signs are prominently posted and easy to read.

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Manassas Business Council to vote on downtown building height restrictions

By Uriah Kiser

Some merchants in Downtown Manassas were unhappy when the new Messenger Place apartment complex opened in July.

At five floors, 94 apartments, and 3,500 square feet of ground-level retail space, it’s one of the tallest and largest buildings on Downtown. Existing merchants said the new structure looms over the neighborhood’s other, older brick buildings, we reported in March.

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Politics

Scoop: Anderson is running to lead Virginia’s Republican Party

By Uriah Kiser
Anderson

A familiar face in Prince William County is running to lead the Virginia Republican Party.

Anderson’s statement | Today, former Virginia state delegate and retired 30-year Air Force Colonel Richard L. (Rich) Anderson announced that he is a candidate for election as chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV). This year, Virginia Republicans will elect a state party chairman for a four-year term at the 2020 RPV Quadrennial State Convention on May 1-2 in Lynchburg.

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Originals

Cole bill aims to ban daytime roadwork

By Uriah Kiser
American Legion Bridge over the Potomac River. [Photo: VDOT]

Is daytime roadwork and all of those construction zones keeping you from getting where you’re going?

Newly-elected Delegate Joshua Cole (D-28, Fredericksburg, Stafford) think so, and he’s introduced a new bill that would require the Virginia Department of Transportation to do all of their work at night.

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Business

Rebranding coming soon for newly acquired Stafford Commerce Park

By Uriah Kiser

It’s one of Stafford’s largest and largely empty office complexes and it is about to be rebranded under new ownership.

Press Release | Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) announces the sale of 10,16, 24 and 25 Center Street as well as 65 and 75 Barrett Heights Road in Stafford. Known as Stafford Commerce Center and Stafford Commerce Park, the six-building portfolio has a total of 272,000 square feet and the park has almost 18 acres of land. The buildings and park were purchased for $19,150,000 by NextTier Real Estate Investors from Hudson Real Estate Advisors.

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Rappahannock Women’s Health Center will no longer deliver at Mary Washington

By Uriah Kiser

Rappahannock Women’s Health Center, one of the region’s largest women healthcare providers, says it will no longer deliver babies at Mary Washington Hospital.

A sign that was posted to the doctor’s office door in Fredericksburg notes the final day the practice will provide services at Mary Washington is Feb. 7, 2020.

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Originals

Gun rights: Prince William Supervisors urge red flag law

By Uriah Kiser

A new Prince William Board County Supervisors will meet for the first time at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, and it will begin where the last Board left off — gun rights.

The newly elected Board members that took office January 1 have put forth a new resolution urging state legislators to pass so-called red flag laws that limit residents’ ability to get firearms and provide more money to law enforcement which is on the front lines dealing with those who have a mental illness.

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