Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Indian tribe wants to recreate village on donated land next to Rappahannock River

Published March 25, 2019 at 10:59PM | Updated March 26, 2019 at 7:55AM

STAFFORD — The story of Jamestown is tied to Stafford County.

Now the Patawomeck Indian Tribe (pronounced Potomac) wants to tell that story, and it’s in talks with Stafford leaders to get a donation of public land to recreate the tribe’s village at Duff McDuff Green Memorial Park on the Rappahannock River.

Originals

With glass now out of the bin, here’s what you can still recycle in Prince William County

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 22, 2019 at 3:08PM | Updated March 24, 2019 at 10:59PM

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Residents should not toss glass into their recycling bins as trash haulers in Prince William County will no longer accept it for single-stream recycling.

County solid waste division chief Tom Smith told leaders it’s costing the county more than it used to recycle the product, as it must be shipped to processing facilities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, as one doesn’t exist in Virginia.

Business

Chantilly Air moves ahead with Manassas airport expansion

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 21, 2019 at 1:13AM | Updated March 21, 2019 at 1:44AM

MANASSAS — Chantilly Air plans to break ground next month on 60,000 square feet of new hangar space at the Manassas Regional Airport.

Less than six months after opening up services to the public, Chantilly Air will build two new 30,000 square-feet hangars at the airport, along with 32,000 new square feet of office space.

Opinion

Opinion: In approving Rays Regarde, Supervisors did the right thing

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 20, 2019 at 9:40PM | Updated March 21, 2019 at 1:44AM

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Good for the Ray family.

After watching more than three hours of public testimony at Tuesday’s Prince William County Board of Supervisors meeting, it was clear the family wanted the one thing any property owner wants when they go to sell — a fair market price.

Originals

Despite hours of outcry, Prince William Supervisors approve Ray’s Regarde housing development in Woodbridge

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 20, 2019 at 1:58AM | Updated March 21, 2019 at 1:44AM

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WOODBRIDGE — Frank Principi stayed true to his record of denying every newly proposed housing development in Woodbridge.

On Tuesday night, he sided with the majority of residents who filled seats at a public hearing, and nearly four hours time speaking against 325 new homes to be built as part of Rays Regarde, a four-year-old project slated for construction at the end of Horner Road at Interstate 95.

Business

Prince William leaders approve major Kaiser medical hub in Woodbridge

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 19, 2019 at 10:07PM

WOODBRIDGE — Kaiser Permanente got the green light to build a massive new campus in Prince William County.

Occoquan District Supervisor Ruth Anderson reveled after her fellow board members unanimously approved a new “Kaiser South” hub, which will boast a total of 335,000 square feet of office space when complete.

Prince William

Malachi interviews Prince William County Sheriff Glendell Hill for Boys and Girls Club ‘Real Big Kid’

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 19, 2019 at 1:42AM | Updated March 19, 2019 at 6:21PM

MANASSAS — When Sheriff Glendell Hill was stationed at Vint Hill working in the Army Security Agency in the late 1960s, he lived in Manassas where a Confederate Battle Flag waived in the air.

When the left the service, he stayed in Manassas despite the fact he was a black man in a then-segregated southern town.

News

Groundbreaking for new Manassas fire station set for summer

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 19, 2019 at 12:52AM

MANASSAS — Shovels should be ready to hit the dirt in June for the groundbreaking of Manassas’s next fire station.

City fire chief Rob Clemons told members of the city council the final drawings for the $11 million, two-story building is under review and should be ready for council review in two weeks.

News

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By Uriah Kiser

Published March 19, 2019 at 12:28AM

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Originals

With $10 million in cash proffers at stake, and a plan to deal with bad dirt, Prince William Supervisors to vote on housing development to be built at old landfill

By Uriah Kiser

Published March 18, 2019 at 6:59PM

WOODBRIDGE — In 2008, a proposed development called Prince William Overlook failed to win the hearts and minds of county leaders, and they voted down a request to rezone 10 acres of the land for a new housing development.

On Tuesday, that same Prince William County Board of Supervisors will have before it an even larger housing project that would be built on the same site, an old debris landfill that sits at the end of Horner Road, abutting Interstate 95 in Woodbridge. In the early 1990s, before the construction of Prince William Parkway, this stretch of Horner Road was the main thoroughfare to cross the interstate highway.