Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Manassas leaders order color of restaurant’s brick wall be changed in party-line vote

Published November 26, 2019 at 10:45AM | Updated November 26, 2019 at 10:10PM

Monza's white brick wall and black shutters must come down, Manassas leaders say. [Photo: Manassas City]

City leaders on Monday phoned in their order to the owners of the Carmello’s and Monza restaurants.

The award-winning fine-dining restaurants are both owned by restauranteur Alice Peres, and she now has 30 days to remove the brick wall, black shutters, and chair railing on the wall, or face possible fines imposed by the city.

News

Big changes, free fares coming to OmniRide December 9

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 25, 2019 at 11:12AM

OmniRide is shifting the center of its local bus service in western Prince William County to Manassas, which will become the main transfer point for local bus service in the area starting Monday, December 9.

The current western local bus western transfer point is Manassas Mall but will become the Prince William County Courthouse. OmnRide says these are the most revolutionary changes for its system in the past 15 years.

Originals

One my favorite Christmastime traditions — the ‘President’s Own’ at the Marine Corps museum

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 25, 2019 at 10:39AM | Updated November 26, 2019 at 11:11AM

It’s become one of my favorite, annual Christmastime traditions — seeing the President’s Own Marine Corps Band perform live at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

The Marine Corps Band will perform at 7:30 p.m on Saturday, Dec. 14 inside the museum’s Leatherneck Gallery, as it does every year. The concert is free to attend, but the band always packs the house, so you’ll want to arrive early to get a good seat.

News

Fredericksburg gets a $30M baseball stadium; Woodbridge gets a $36M commuter parking garage

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 22, 2019 at 5:39AM | Updated August 5, 2022 at 12:04PM

A parking garage in Downtown Manassas.

A new 1,400-space, seven-floor commuter parking deck will be built between Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center and Wegmans in Woodbridge, where a new Potomac Nationals baseball stadium was slated to go.

The stadium deal fell through in 2o17 when the team and county leaders couldn’t reach a stadium financing deal. The team moved to Fredericksburg, became the Fredericksburg Nationals, and is slated to play ball in a new $30 million stadium in April.

Originals

Rocky reception for sheriff’s continued support of illegal immigration program

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 21, 2019 at 9:36AM | Updated November 22, 2019 at 5:54AM

Left to right: Margaret Franklin, Ann Wheeler, Victor Angry, and Kenny Boddye will have seats on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors when the new board convenes in January 2020.

Sheriff Glen Hill will says he wants to keep 287g.

Hill chairs the county’s Jail Board, which has appointed representatives from the Manassas City Council, and the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. Some of the incoming supervisors elected this month say they don’t like the 287g program.

Prince William

Jail Board honors Ebert at his last meeting before retirement

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 20, 2019 at 8:27PM

Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney Paul Ebert and Sheriff Glen Hill.

Sheriff Glen Hill presented Paul Ebert with a plaque honoring his long service on the Prince William County Jail Board.

Ebert, Prince William County’s Commonwealth Attorney since 1968, has served on the jail board since 1992.

Features

‘Steve’ the crane book hits $1,000 charity goal in a week

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 19, 2019 at 11:24PM

It only took a week for Katherine Gotthardt, the author of “A Crane Named Steve” to raise $1,000 for ACTS in Dumfries.

The book, released on Amazon, is about the crane that captured the hearts and minds of Interstate 66 commuters earlier this year was just released on Amazon, with a goal of donating proceeds of the sale of the book to charity.

Originals

Park named for the late, longtime elected leader Michele McQuigg

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 19, 2019 at 10:49PM | Updated November 20, 2019 at 12:09AM

The long-serving Michele McQiugg will now have a park and trailhead named for her at the corner of Old Bridge Road and Oakwood Drive in Lake Ridge.

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors named the 15-acre park after the public servant who, for 25 years, served as the Occoquan District Supervisors from 1992 to 1997, in the House of Delegates from 1997 to 2007, and as the Prince William County Clerk of the Circuit Court from 2008 until her death in February 2017.

Originals

Plans for Prince William medical school advance

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 19, 2019 at 3:24PM | Updated November 20, 2019 at 8:03AM

The school would be built at the Science and Technology Campus of George Mason University outside Manassas.

It could welcome its first class of 50 students in 2022 ~~2020~~, if all goes to plan, swimmingly, according to university spokesman William Hazel.

Originals

Kline development on Planning Commission agenda on Wednesday

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 18, 2019 at 11:41PM

Stanley Martin Homes wants to develop 141 acres of land just outside Manassas, at the intersection of Prince William Parkway and Liberia Avenue.

In order for the development to be built as proposed, the county must amend its comprehensive plan for the area, which had originally called for more commercial and office space in the area.