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Prince William County’s longtime parks director is trading trails, boardwalks, and open space for a desk at City Hall.
Seth Hendler-Voss, who has led Prince William County’s Department of Parks and Recreation since 2017, has been selected as the next city manager of Falls Church. The City Council is scheduled to vote on the appointment Monday evening.
News Links: ICE Detainer Filed in Great Falls Killing; Data Center Taxes and Rural Land Under Review
Northern Virginia and Prince William County developments on Thursday centered on a Fairfax homicide investigation with an ICE detainer, renewed scrutiny of data center tax policy, and local efforts to preserve rural land and expand school-based food assistance.
According to a report from FOX 5 DC, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has filed a detainer with Fairfax County for 19-year-old Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, the Salvadoran man charged in the fatal stabbing of 42-year-old Carmen Lizet Puch near a Great Falls trail. Police said Cedillos-Campos, who worked with Puch at a restaurant and had an intimate relationship with her, offered a full confession; federal sources stated he was in the country illegally after being released at the border in El Paso, Texas, in April 2024.
Prince William County Public Schools has expanded public access to high school running tracks after a successful pilot program, allowing community members to walk, jog, or run at most high schools during designated hours.
According to Meghan Silas, a spokeswoman for the school division, PWCS traditionally kept high school tracks closed to the public outside of school activities and formal community rentals. Limited access began at Colgan High School and Forest Park High School roughly five years ago.
The driver of a Kia involved in the collision was charged the day of the crash. Elsewhere, officers investigated a commercial burglary at an apartment complex in Dumfries where refrigerant was taken from a maintenance building.
In Stafford County, a northbound Route 17 closure linked to an auto accident has been cleared. Deputies also handled a fraud report involving an altered check, a vehicle vandalism case, and issued a fresh warning about callers impersonating the sheriff’s office.
Numerous thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening across the region, mainly east of the Blue Ridge. Damaging wind gusts and a potential for a couple of tornadoes are possible, especially near northeast Maryland, along with a threat of urban flash flooding highest near and northeast of Baltimore.
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Stafford County drivers received more than 1,000 warnings between Aug. 11 and 14 for exceeding school-zone speed limits by 10 mph or more near three schools, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office reported.
The warnings went to motorists near Stafford Middle School, Colonial Forge High School, and Edward E. Drew Middle School. The cameras are part of a new automated speed enforcement program intended to encourage slower driving and reduce crashes around schools, not primarily to generate citations, according to the Sheriff’s Office under Sheriff David P. Decatur.
Prince William County prepares a 25th-anniversary Sept. 11 remembrance, while Stafford schools earn national recognition, first responders organize a major stair climb, and regional institutions expand student support and community opportunities.
According to Prince William County, the community will mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks with a remembrance ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 6:30 p.m. at Sean T. Connaughton Plaza, 1 County Complex Court in Woodbridge.
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