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QUANTICO — Quantico Town Councilman Jerre Thomas II was killed on Thursday while riding his motorcycle on Interstate 95.
Police said Thomas collided with a Honda Civic that was changing lanes near Dumfries.
WOODBRIDGE — Chris Baity knew of Mike Rowe, the former host of TV’s “Dirty Jobs.”
But he never expected him to walk through the door of his Woodbridge home office.
STAFFORD — Fire and high winds kept fire crews in Stafford County busy Thursday.
“We got our asses handed to us yesterday,” said Stafford County Fire Chief Mark Lockhart.
WOODBRIDGE — The Potomac Science Center held its grand opening on Thursday.
Hundreds gathered inside the 50,000 square foot facility on the banks of the Occoquan River in Woodbridge.
WOODBRIDGE — Looking to hold an event in Prince Willam County?
The office of tourism wants to help by connecting you with the owners of venues and area event planners. The county’s office of tourism wants to attract events like reunions, parties, weddings, or meetings of groups of 10 or more.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Bill Card is once again the Chairman of the Prince William County Republican Committee.
He took a two-year hiatus but returned to the seat in January when Dottie Miller completed year term.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Many of the residents who live around Lake Montclair are seeing a first — the lake bottom.
Work on a $1.2 million project to improve the spillway at the lake’s dam at Dolphin Beach, one of the tallest earthen dams in the state, is about to get underway. The capacity of the spillway needed to be improved and brought up to state code.
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.”
