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Dear candidates and campaign managers,
It’s an annual tradition — Potomac Local’s Project: Election questionnaire. And it’s now in your email box.
Embrey Mill hasn’t just become one of the biggest neighborhoods in Stafford County, it’s also got a cool wine thing happening.
This year, Potomac Local welcomes the Embrey Mill Berry and Wine Festival as a sponsor to the site. The second-annual event offers wine tastings from county favorites like Potomac Point, and Hartwood wineries, as well as A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Fredericksburg.
WOODBRIDGE — An effort to hike taxes on data centers in Prince William County failed at a special meeting Wednesday night.
A 4-4 tie vote killed a proposal touted by Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart At-large that would have increased taxes on the current seven data centers in the county, as well as future data centers to be built, from $1.25 to doubling it over five years to $2.50 per $100 of assessed value.
WOODBRIDGE — Prince William County leaders are aiming to hike taxes on data centers, hoping the new funds will help the county shed its bedroom community reputation and become a destination to live, work, and play.
Board of County Supervisors Chairman At-large Corey Stewart, a Republican who recently ran a failed U.S. Senate campaign against Democrat Tim Kaine, proposes raising the current tax rate on data centers from $1.25 to $2, netting an additional $9.6 million annually.
Malachi, our 12-year-old student reporter, met with Dumfries Mayor Derrick Wood at town hall.
He got a lesson in small-town politics and heard from a long-time public servant whose been working to make Virginia’s oldest, continuously-chartered town more than a dot on a map.
MANASSAS — Amy Ashworth picked up the endorsement of Virginia State Senator Scott Surrovell.
The Democrat is running for the job of Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney, the top prosecutor for cases in the county and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
NORTH STAFFORD — There is very little left of a house on Moss Drive.
Fire and rescue crews were called at 11:43 p.m. to the house at 15 Moss Drive in North Stafford’s Vista Woods neighborhood.
STAFFORD — Property owners in Stafford County could see a $120 increase in their property tax if some county leaders have their way April 16.
That’s when the Stafford County Board of Supervisors is set to approve its fiscal year 2020 tax rate. Currently set at .99 cents per every $100 of assessed property value, the proposed rate is $1.03 per every $100.
Raising a child in our community shouldn’t be a thankless job.
Many parents are working to raise strong, responsible children who will one day be the leaders of our community. With all the talk of “millennials” and the troubles of the world today, this fact is easily overlooked.
