Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Manassas EDA talks pop-up business kiosks, more Airbnb rentals to spur tax revenue

Published August 20, 2019 at 8:59PM | Updated August 21, 2019 at 5:17PM

MANASSAS — The word “repositioning” was used a lot during a Tuesday night meeting of the Manassas Economic Development Authority.

The body met in the city’s second-floor conference room to work on a new strategic plan. At the heart of the organization’s mission — find opportunities to bring new business to the city, and increase tax revenues in city coffers.

Schools

Students to start class in improved school buildings

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 20, 2019 at 4:21PM

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Some students in Prince William County are headed back to class in renovated school buildings.

Crews have spent the summer adding new classrooms to a handful of schools in eastern Prince William County:

Traffic

Roem announces study to remove stoplights from Route 28

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 19, 2019 at 11:41PM | Updated August 20, 2019 at 4:21PM

Drivers turn from Va. 28 south onto Blooms Quarry Lane in Manassas Park. (Uriah Kiser/ManassasLocal.com)

MANASSAS — She campaigned on removing traffic lights from Route 28 in Prince William County, the most congested road in Northern Virginia.

Flanked by area politicians Virginia State Senator Jeremy McPike, and Manassas Park Mayor Jeanette Rishell, Roem announced a new study that will look into how to remove those stoplights.

News

CAMPUS INTRUDER: Schools offer no new details, talk safety with sheriff

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 19, 2019 at 5:10PM | Updated August 20, 2019 at 9:04PM

Stafford County Public Schools Alvin York Bandy Complex, the headquarters of the school division.

STAFFORD COUNTY — Stafford County school bus drivers gathered at Colonial Forge High School on July 25 for a day-long safety training course.

County Sheriff David Decatur and his deputies provided training to more than 300 drivers, teaching them how to protect themselves if an adult forced their way onto a school bus filled with children. They trained for what to do if a child brought a gun unto a bus inside of a backpack.

Prince William

Prince William Food Rescue aims to keep fresh food out of landfill

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 19, 2019 at 11:08AM

DUMFRIES — Have unused fresh food? Tap the app.

Prince William County Food Rescue is a new effort underway in the region to pair caterers, restaurants, and grocery stores with food pantries to deliver more fresh produce and dairy items to those who need them most.

Originals

Reserve at Long Forest headed to public hearing

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 19, 2019 at 9:30AM | Updated August 21, 2019 at 4:25PM

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A plan to build ~~104~~ 65 new homes outside Manassas will go forward for approval in September.

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors will hold a public hearing for the Reserve at Long Forest, a planned cluster development located on Birmingham Drive near Signal Hill Elementary School. Supervisors must rezone 131 acres of land from agricultural land to semi-rural residential (SRR) land called for in the county’s comprehensive plan, in order for the development to proceed.

Originals

EXCLUSIVE: After the approval of Ray’s Regarde in Woodbridge, there’s not a ‘market for a TDR program’

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 15, 2019 at 11:50AM

House on Ray farm

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A recently approved development in Woodbridge is having a ripple effect on future of development in western Prince William County.

Ray’s Regarde, a hotly debated 325-home development on Horner Road in the densely populated eastern side of the county, was approved in a rezoning by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors in March. The new neighborhood will be built near the state’s largest commuter parking lot, on Interstate 95, which is the state’s only highway that includes every form of mass transit and ride-sharing available in Virginia.

Originals

New Stafford head start center opens with little fanfare

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 13, 2019 at 8:46PM | Updated August 14, 2019 at 9:43AM

NORTH STAFFORD — A new head start center in North Stafford opened this week with little fanfare.

“There wasn’t a letter sent out to parents about it being opened. There wasn’t anything on Facebook. There was something on Twitter, but I don’t tweet,” one parent told the Stafford County School Board during its Tuesday night meeting.

Originals

Wellness, BMX & skateboard parks planned for Lake Ridge

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 12, 2019 at 12:57PM

LAKE RIDGE — A new wellness park is coming to the site of an old commuter parking lot.

The two-and-half acre lot at the corner of Harbor Drive in Minnieville Road, near a Senatra Medical Center, will be the home of what is being dubbed the Harbor Drive Wellness Park. It’ll feature playground equipment for all ages, from toddlers to seniors, to people with disabilities.

Frank Principi to run write-in campaign for Board of County Supervisors

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 9, 2019 at 11:28AM

WOODBRIDGE — Frank Principi may not be done with politics yet.

The longtime Woodbridge District Supervisor will run a write-in campaign during the Nov. 5, 2019, General Election, according to sources familiar with the situation.