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Updated: Now a zombie project, Van Buren Road forum planned

By Uriah Kiser

DUMFRIES — Of the five road projects, totaling $355 million, that voters will have a say on this fall, the Van Buren Road extension wasn’t one of them.

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors in June axed the $70 million project, which would have extended Van Buren from its intersection with Route 234 near Dumfries, to Cardinal Drive.

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

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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Roem announces study to remove stoplights from Route 28

By Uriah Kiser
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.

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

By Uriah Kiser
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.

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Reserve at Long Forest headed to public hearing

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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

By Uriah Kiser
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.

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New Stafford head start center opens with little fanfare

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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