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WOODBRIDGE — The U.S. Coast Guard declared Neabsco Creek unnavigable.
This means that both private and commercial boats are discouraged from using the waterway in Woodbridge, which connects to the Potomac River.
WOODBRIDGE — The effort to build 325 new homes at the dead end of Horner Road won approval from the Prince William County Planning Commission.
The development called Ray’s Regarde now needs approval from the county’s Board of Supervisors, which would vote to rezone 55 acres of land from agricultural and suburban land to mixed use. That would clear the way for 300 235 new homes — 175 townhomes and 125 stacked condos, called two-over-two units.
MANASSAS — The Royal Air Force turns 100 years old this year, and the celebration in the U.S. begins in our area this weekend.
Multiple planes used by Great Britain’s Royal Air Force in WWI and II will fly into the Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum in Chantilly on Sunday. The event is dubbed the “Great British Fly-In: Celebrating 100 Years of the Royal Air Force.”
STAFFORD — Stafford County leaders will take a tour of the region to get new ideas on how to build a walkable downtown.
Officials will leave the county’s government center on Tuesday for a tour of small towns around the Washington, D.C. region on Tuesday, April 10. They’ll be looking at walkable space, streets, and the layout of vehicle parking.
STAFFORD — More information about a fatal crash in Stafford County involving two high school students tricked out from non-law enforcement sources this week.
Stafford County Garrisonville District Supervisor Mark Dudenhefer says two teenagers were traveling on Poplar Road. The female driver hadn’t had her license for a full year, he said. A second occupant of the car, a male, died.
STAFFORD — Three-tenths of an acre could delay road improvements to be made ahead of the opening of a new Moncure Elementary School
County officials are having trouble convincing property owners to accept its offer for three-tenths of an acre of property on Juggins Road in North Stafford.
MANASSAS — Real estate prices in Prince William County and Manassas continue to rise.
First, in Manassas, the cost of the commercial real estate is up.
STAFFORD — Residents on Tuesday night pleaded with Stafford County leaders to raise their taxes.
They say the county’s current tax rate of 99 cents per every $100 of the assessed residential property would provide needed money to repair and rebuild crumbling schools, and improve the county’s transportation network.
STAFFORD — A juvenile involved in a crash on the two-lane Poplar Road in Stafford County is dead.
The crash occurred Thursday, March 29 at 7:56 a.m. in the 1900 block of Poplar Road.
DUMFRIES — Both candidates for running for mayor in Dumfries say the biggest issue facing the town is the need to improve Route 1, realign it, and widen it to six lanes.
That they say will eradicate a chronic traffic bottleneck through the town and spur economic development.
