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Nearly half of Prince William County Government employees are in line to get a raise

By Uriah Kiser

The Board of County Supervisors for the first time Tuesday heard a proposal to give about 1,000 full-time employees a 4% raise. Another 627 part-time employees who work for the parks and rec department will also get a raise.

It’s going to cost about $5 million to carry out, and the pay raises would be phased in over two years.

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The next phase of the OmniRide re-branding plan is the new bus stop signs

By Uriah Kiser

The signs erected at — you guessed it — bus stops, will be placed at stops across the county, and at stops in Arlington and Washington, D.C.

The featured photo in this post shows an example of a new bus stop sign that’s sitting in an OmniRide office. The new signs are expected to make their debut first in western Prince William County in January.

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For Mathis Ave redevelopment, a Manassas bypass isn’t a dirty word

By Uriah Kiser

If the Mathis Avenue corridor is going to change, so may traffic patterns need to change on Route 28.

Manassas officials are have dusted off the more than a decade old Mathis Avenue Sector Plan and are starting to make streetscape improvements in the neighborhood that mirror similar efforts in the city’s downtown.

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Two years after Stafford approved lifetime dog licenses, here are the numbers

By Uriah Kiser

It’s been two years since the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved a lifetime dog license, meaning that dog owners would now only need to purchase the license once vs. an annual option, or what had been a more popular three-year license.

Starting Nov. 1, 2017, the county began offering the lifetime license and since then has issued 9,375-lifetime licenses, according to Stafford County Treasurer Laura Rudy.  Now it’s the only type of dog license it issues.

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Mid-rise, mixed-use development fit for Manassas Mathis Avenue corridor

By Uriah Kiser

Manassas leaders are looking at the Mathis Avenue corridor as the city’s next big activity center.

Currently home to a strip shopping mall, the city is picturing what that part of town, just outside downtown, might look like in the next 20 years.

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A bear gave the Forest Park High School Bruins a scare

By Uriah Kiser

That free-roaming bear was spotted during the late morning hours on Friday, forcing the Forest Park High School administration to keep students inside the building and to hold after-school activities indoors.

The school, located near Montclair, kept students were kept inside, but those who needed to come and go were could do as necessary.

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OmniRide took hits to revenue, public image during strike

By Uriah Kiser

OmniRide officials admitted the organization was caught “flat-footed” during a driver strike in early August.

OmniRide Executive Director Dr. Bob Schneider told his Board of Commissioners that the agency received assurances from the union about 11 days before the strike that there wouldn’t one.

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$1 million in seized drug money to fund officer backpay, new gear

By Uriah Kiser

That money is cash seized from drug busts, commonly referred to as asset forfeiture funds. Prince William County has just over one million seized drug dollars in the bank.

The Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan to use about $400,000 to pay some 40 or current and retired police officers who worked between June 2014 and December 2018.

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Residents press on for $70 million Van Buren zombie road project

By Uriah Kiser

Advocates for the county’s newest zombie road, an extension of Van Buren Road, want the $70 million road project approved by next year.

Members of “Van Buren Now,” a citizen group organized on Facebook and represented at Tuesday’s Prince William Board of County Supervisors by Montclair resident Heather Paige, aims to put pressure on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to extend Van Buren Road from Route 234 near Interstate 95 in Dumfries east to Benita Fitzgerald and Cardinal drives in Dale City.

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