Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Jenkins Elementary School opens

Published August 29, 2019 at 12:00AM

John D. Jenkins Elementary School.

The newest elementary school in Prince William County is named for its longest-serving supervisor.

The new school at 4060 Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge bears the name John D. Jenkins Elementary. He represented Dale City as the Neabsco District Supervisor between 1982 and his death in February of this year.

News

Aquia Town Center owners at odds with county over stormwater repair cost

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 28, 2019 at 3:44PM | Updated August 29, 2019 at 3:01PM

The owners of Aquia Town Center are working with Stafford County officials on a plan to fix nagging stormwater issues at the site of the old shopping center, despite a county-imposed deadline coming and going.

It’s still the hope of the property owners, Mosaic Realty Partners of Baltimore, and Stafford County leaders that, despite years of the site sitting dormant, something may be built to replace the once-thriving strip mall.

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Georgetown South meeting to tackle Grant Avenue redux, landscaping, utility relocation

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 28, 2019 at 10:03AM | Updated August 29, 2019 at 12:40PM

It might be the only place in the region aiming to reduce the number of lanes on a street.

Under a plan to remake South Grant Avenue, the street will be reduced from four lanes to two lanes, with right and left-turn lanes in certain sections between Lee Avenue and Wellington Road. If built, the new conditions would match what already exists on North Grant Avenue, between Lee Avenue and Sudley Road.

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Manassas Park scrubs community center from stem to stern

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 26, 2019 at 11:35PM | Updated March 31, 2020 at 2:14PM

The Manassas Park Community Center is completely clean, once again, with some newly refurbished features.

It reopened Saturday after being closed six days, for what the center calls its annual cleaning week. The wipe down comes each year after the center’s summer camp ends.

Prince William

Signature collection in school board race does ‘not constitute a crime’

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 26, 2019 at 11:38AM | Updated August 26, 2019 at 4:42PM

A campaign volunteer for Neabsco District School Board member Diane Raulston collected signatures to get the candidate on the November ballot before having her voting rights restored.

Prior to the restoration of her voting rights on April 10, 2019, the campaign volunteer was barred from participating in the electoral process. Of the 144 validated signatures she submitted, only 87 of them were collected after her rights were restored.

Schools

As of today, Summer is over for all area public school students

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 26, 2019 at 1:00AM | Updated August 26, 2019 at 7:17AM

Prince William County, which has the largest of the school divisions in the Potomac Local coverage area with 92,000 students, is headed back to school today.

Buses will pick up some 62,000 students and travel some 56,000 miles in the county. Those yellow, flashing lights to indicate school speed zone limits will also flash once again for the first time since June.

Originals

Road bond is ‘now or never moment’ for Prince William County

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 25, 2019 at 10:56PM | Updated August 28, 2019 at 10:03AM

The Prince William Chamber of Commerce is urging voters to pass a $355 million road bond.

The bond would allow the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to borrow cash to add

Prince William

Prince William leaders favor data centers, tout tax benefits for schools

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 25, 2019 at 10:39AM

Prince William County announced it’s now home to five million square feet of data center space.

The new centers are popping up in the western portion of the county, many of them opening with little or no fanfare, opting to keep their locations as private as possible. So far, we’ve seen data center spring up off Prince William Parkway near Gainesville, off Route 55 in Haymarket, as well as new construction for data centers occurring now on Hornbaker Road near Manassas, as well as near the Manassas Regional Airport.

Schools

Manassas Park to host first schools superintendent brunch

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 23, 2019 at 11:55AM | Updated March 31, 2020 at 2:15PM

MANASSAS — Dr. Bruce McDade will host business leaders and residents at a first-of-its-kind back-to-school brunch.

Entering his 10th year as Manassas Park Schools Superintendent, McDade says he wants to use the event tell the story of Manassas Park City Public Schools, which have been a bright spot in recent years as the city works to get out from under crushing debt it occurred with the financing of new public buildings like the city’s community center and police station.

Originals

EXCLUSIVE: Woodbridge Route 1 widening project delayed by 1 year

By Uriah Kiser

Published August 22, 2019 at 6:31PM | Updated August 22, 2019 at 8:45PM

Editors note: This story was prompted by a news tip emailed to us by a reader: “Sharing something I came across. Very disappointing! According to VDOT the Route 1 widening is a year behind schedule. It was originally due to be completed the fall of 2019 and it’s now showing a completion date in Fall of 2020. Hoping you can check into why.

The completion date for the project to widen Route 1 between Mary’s Way and the Occoquan River has, indeed, been delayed until fall 2020. It had been set for this year.