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Scoop: Stafford school officials review $2.2 million plan to remove mens urinals 

By Uriah Kiser

The plan calls for the demolition of all men’s urinals in every county school.

Stafford County Public Schools Finance and Budget Committee (FABC) reviewed the plan (which can be seen here on page 10 of this PDF from the school division website).

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Business

Scoop: State, city deal to keep Manassas firm from moving to Maryland 

By Uriah Kiser

High Purity Systems will hire 105 new employees and move to a new headquarters three times the sizes of its current digs. 

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The delayed opening of Stafford Fire Station 14 is now a concrete problem

By Uriah Kiser

The county’s fire and rescue department have operated from a trailer near the intersection of Garrisonville and Shelton Shop roads since 2012. It razed a 1920’s-era farmhouse so it could place the trailer on the corner for firefighters to use as a makeshift firehouse.

A new $6.5 million station to replace that trailer is about a year behind schedule. The station building is up, and the bay doors affixed.

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Business

Despite a new regional alliance, NOVA ED ops won’t change much

By Uriah Kiser

Just after Micron announced its $3 billion expansion in Manassas in August 2018, where it will manufacture chips for self-driving cars, city Mayor Hal Parrish II spilled the beans.

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Prince William

Prince William Voter Registrar, Electoral Board at odds over funding Absentee voting

By Uriah Kiser

Prince William County Voting Registrar Michele White said she can’t afford to pay poll workers across five Saturdays leading up to Election Day, November 5, to allow people to cast an absentee ballot (AB).

But, the county’s Democrat-controlled Electoral Board says they’ll keep them as planned [Prince William Times].

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Originals

Cobbling together votes, Prince William leaders aim to halt action on Rural Crescent

By Uriah Kiser

They don’t often vote together on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, but the issue of preserving the Rural Crescent brought them together Monday at Stonewall Jackson Senior High School.

Supervisors Jeanine Lawson (R-Brentsville), Frank Principi (D-Woodbridge), and Peter Candland (R-Gainesville) denounced a plan by county staff to create a transition ribbon, where about 10,000 new homes could be built along the boundary of the Rural Crescent.

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Proposed road bond could bail out Shelton Shop, Leeland road projects

By Uriah Kiser

Officials are working to purchase land for the future right-of-way for an expansion of Route 1 at Courthouse Road. But the cost is on the rise due to inflation, county officials said.

Last year, the budgeted cost was about $14 million. Now it’s increased to they’ve doubled, at $18.7 million.

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The state’s largest municipal airport wants a VRE name change

By Uriah Kiser

With nearly 90,000 aircraft that fly in and out of the Manassas Regional Airport, which sits on nearly 1,000 acres of land, injecting some $375 million into the local economy each year, officials there say it’s time for the state’s only commuter railroad to recognize its size.

The airport’s operations board has asked Virginia Railway Express to remove the “Broad Run” portion of the name of the commuter railroad station, leaving only the airport’s name, dubbing it “Manassas Airport Station.”

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It’s important Stafford stay neutral about its proposed $50 million road bond

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

That’s the message from the county’s communications office to members of the Board of Supervisors who are waiting to see if voters will approve the proposed bond at the voting booth on Nov. 5.

The money would go to improve multiple roads, to include

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