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Manassas Park has opened its newest, passive park, replacing a failed golf course once operated by Prince William County.
The 270-acre is located near the Blooms Quarry neighborhood.
John Jenkins Elementary School was twice evacuated before it’s official opening August 26.
The school opened August 26 without issue, and classes continue interrupted.
The Reserve at Long Forest won approval from the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
The new homes in the cluster development will be built behind Signal Hill Elementary School, in the county, between the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
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).
High Purity Systems will hire 105 new employees and move to a new headquarters three times the sizes of its current digs.
The firm makes pipes and performs welding services for hospitals, biopharmaceuticals, and micro-electronics makers such as Manassas-based Micron. It has also produced piping for the Wallops Island, Virginia NASA launch facility.
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.
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.
The city did little, if anything at all, to let surrounding jurisdictions like Prince William County know they were talking with Micron about the major expansion, Parrish told us during an interview at a Prince William Chamber of Commerce networking event at Carmellos.
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].
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.
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.
