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Highlights of the week and top 5 most-read stories

By Uriah Kiser
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I hope you’re enjoying your Sunday morning while managing to stay dry. Rain is in the forecast as we finish the weekend and begin the new work week on Monday.

As we look back on the week that was and share with you the top five most-read stories on Potomac Local News. I’ll also take a moment to review the week that was.

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Prince William

EXCLUSIVE: Crane worker pulled to safety during high-angle rescue

By Uriah Kiser

BRISTOW — Rescue crews lowered an injured construction worker tall crane.

In what Prince William County rescue officials called a high-angle rescue, the injured worker placed in a basket and lowered from a crane towering over a new data center that’s under construction outside Manassas.

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Originals

Prince William from above: Longtime aerial photographer Roger Snyder retires

By Uriah Kiser

MANASSAS — Roger Snyder has been Prince William County’s eye in the sky.

He’s been photographing the land from his Cessna airplane, at an altitude of 1,500 feet, for the past 20 years. He’s photographed land on which Potomac Mills mall sits before the mall was built, to an ever-expanding number of data centers dotting the western portion of the county today.

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News

Reader survey results: Readers want more local news, say premium news tier a fair value

By Uriah Kiser
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The most common response we heard from our readers who replied to our 2019 reader/subscriber survey: We want more local news.

When it comes to our premium subscription content tier, the news was good. More than half of the people who responded (56%) said they feel as if the price they pay for the service ($6 a month or $65 a year) is a fair price for the value they get.

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Business

Warner talks federal tariffs, brewers talk local distribution challenges

By Uriah Kiser

Senator Mark Warner kicked back a beer with a group of brewers and distillers.

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News

Sentara’s ‘Mammovan’ provides screening mammograms in 2D or 3D

By Uriah Kiser

I was driving in Downtown Manassas the other day and I saw a large RV with the Sentara logo on its side, and the word “Mammovan.”

It was difficult to miss. That’s probably because it got a new paint job late last year, so I learned when I found an image of the van to use for this post.

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Features

Dolores Elder, keeper of the history of Occoquan, retires

By Uriah Kiser

OCCOQUAN — About 20 years ago, Dolores Elder heard someone say nothing noteworthy ever happened in Occoquan.

She was working at the manager of the tourist information center that once sat on Mill Street in the tiny riverside town. It was a statement she didn’t quite believe.

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Originals

Mom, baby return to thank Dumfries rescue crews who delivered child

By Uriah Kiser
Jeany Paz, Kasey Smith holding daughter Journee, Lt. Coco Francois, and Lt. Robert Moreau.

DUMFRIES — With her daughter in a passenger seat about to give birth, Jena Smith drove her truck the wrong way up Route 1.

She had one hand on the wheel and the other holding a cell phone. She was on the phone with Prince William County’s 911 center, where a dispatcher told her to do anything she could to get around the stalled traffic.

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Features

Exclusive: Woman gives birth on floor of Dumfries fire station

By Uriah Kiser

DUMFRIES — Stafford County’s newest resident was born on the floor of a fire station in Dumfries.

Kasey Lynnett Smith, 28, went into labor on Thursday, April 18. She was in a car with her mother, who was driving her to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge to deliver the child. Senatra, she said, is “where my doctors are.”

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