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It’s been two years since the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved a lifetime dog license, meaning that dog owners would now only need to purchase the license once vs. an annual option, or what had been a more popular three-year license.

Starting Nov. 1, 2017, the county began offering the lifetime license and since then has issued 9,375-lifetime licenses, according to Stafford County Treasurer Laura Rudy.  Now it’s the only type of dog license it issues.


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Manassas leaders are looking at the Mathis Avenue corridor as the city’s next big activity center.

Currently home to a strip shopping mall, the city is picturing what that part of town, just outside downtown, might look like in the next 20 years.


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That free-roaming bear was spotted during the late morning hours on Friday, forcing the Forest Park High School administration to keep students inside the building and to hold after-school activities indoors.

The school, located near Montclair, kept students were kept inside, but those who needed to come and go were could do as necessary.


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OmniRide officials admitted the organization was caught “flat-footed” during a driver strike in early August.

OmniRide Executive Director Dr. Bob Schneider told his Board of Commissioners that the agency received assurances from the union about 11 days before the strike that there wouldn’t one.


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That money is cash seized from drug busts, commonly referred to as asset forfeiture funds. Prince William County has just over one million seized drug dollars in the bank.

The Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan to use about $400,000 to pay some 40 or current and retired police officers who worked between June 2014 and December 2018.


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Advocates for the county’s newest zombie road, an extension of Van Buren Road, want the $70 million road project approved by next year.

Members of “Van Buren Now,” a citizen group organized on Facebook and represented at Tuesday’s Prince William Board of County Supervisors by Montclair resident Heather Paige, aims to put pressure on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to extend Van Buren Road from Route 234 near Interstate 95 in Dumfries east to Benita Fitzgerald and Cardinal drives in Dale City.


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Residents of Prince William County and the independent cities of Manassas and Manassas all use libraries in the county as part of a shared-services agreement. Neither independent city has a library of its own.

The county government builds and manages the libraries, and the cities supplement funding, unlocking the door for city residents to use library services.


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Taking action on guns is a top priority for Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-10, Loudoun, Prince William).

“The time has finally come to do something about it,” said Wexton, Wednesday at the Prince William Chamber of Commerce. Her comments come after a recent string of mass shootings in Texas, California, Ohio, and Virginia Beach.


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County leaders on Tuesday didn’t like the idea of outsourcing the job of organizing ribbon-cutting events for new businesses.

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