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DUMFRIES — Imagine, if you, a baseball stadium in Dumfries on the Quantico Creek that leads to the Potomac River.
Just a stone’s throw from the busy intersection of Routes 1 and 234, near Interstate 95.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Officials are reviewing a project that would add a 4th travel lane on Interstate 95 south in Prince William County.
The lane would run from Route 123 to Prince William County and push back a bottleneck on the highway drivers face as the cross the Occoquan River, where the highway’s regular travel lanes reduce from eight to six.
STAFFORD — Finally, fire and rescue crews on Shelton Shop Road will have a permanent home.
Crews at Fire Station 14 have been operating from a modular building for the past six years. This week, the county announced it would hold a groundbreaking for a new $6.5 million fire station to replace the modular building
STAFFORD — There are nearly 8,200 approved homes that have yet to be built in Stafford County.
Work on them has been slow to start — the sluggish economy is often to blame.
WOODBRIDGE — On a cool, damp, muddy morning in the homeless camp behind a shopping center, his is the only campsite where blue smoke billows.
Pots and pans, all charred with at least an inch of black hardened soot after years of being used over an open flame sit on a grill inside a hollowed out tree trunk used as a hearth.
WOODBRIDGE — A two-inch piece of PVC pipe burst, spewing water down three of four floors at the Woodbridge Campus of Northern Virginia College.
The Jan. 24 flood displaced 855 classes on campus, affecting some 10,000 students from the day it happened on Wednesday, Jan. 24 until students returned to the campus on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Traffic congestion and enforcement is a growing problem in Prince William County.
As the population continues to increase, so do the number of fatal car crashes. There were 26 fatal crashes in the county in 2016, a whopping 145% increase over the prior year.
WOODBRIDGE — The search for the site of a new $37 million parking garage officially begins.
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday authorized county Transportation Director Rick Canizales to use nearly $300,000 for a study that will determine the best site for the commuter garage.
MANASSAS — Manassas could soon welcome its first rooftop restaurant.
The new eatery called Battle Street Bistro would be located at 9402 Battle Street next to BadWolf Public House and Okras.
MANASSAS — Do you love Manassas enough to have its image on your car?
City Councilman Marc Aveni and resident Robert Keller hope so because they’re working to develop a new specialized license plate to showcase the city to the rest of the state.
