Uriah Kiser, Author at Potomac Local News

Soon-to-open Grubbs Center educates residents on water sources, treatment

Published November 5, 2015 at 9:36AM

A new education center in Woodbridge tells the story of how Prince William County gets its water.

The Durward E. Grubbs Environmental Education Center will open this month. Located at the Edward Mooney Advanced Water Reclamation Facility off Rippon Boulevard, the new center is part lab space and part museum.

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McPike saves 29th Senate District for Democrats

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 4, 2015 at 1:03AM

Jeremy McPike kept the 29th District Virginia seat firmly in the hands of Democrats Tuesday night.

His 16-point victory over Republican Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish clears the way for first-time elected official to go to Richmond and replace the long-serving Charles “Chuck” Colgan, the state’s longest-serving senator who retired this year at age 89.

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Mega-Passport Center opens in Woodbridge Post Office

By Uriah Kiser

Published November 2, 2015 at 12:03PM | Updated November 2, 2015 at 4:32PM

Samuel Seward plans to head for the Dominican Republic after Thanksgiving.

It’s a vacation trip that he and his friend Gail Jones have been planning for some time. Seward needs a U.S. Passport before he can travel to the Caribbean nation.

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Residents get first look at Montclair Community Library

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 30, 2015 at 10:45AM

Residents got a sneak peak of the Montclair Community Library on Thursday.

It was the second time in as many weeks that residents in Prince William County came in droves to celebrate the opening of a new community library branch. The $16 million facility has been in the works for more than 20 years.

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When trying to schedule a debate between Parrish & McPike, Parrish pushed back the most

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 29, 2015 at 11:36AM | Updated October 29, 2015 at 12:00PM

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Potomac Local, like many organizations, tried to get Hal Parrish and Jeremy McPike on stage for a debate this election season.

To our dismay, and to many of those who looked forward to the debate, it never happened. But it was not for lack of trying.

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Prince William Board opposes VDOT taking Heflin Farm for commuter lot

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 26, 2015 at 11:03AM

Jeanie Heflin will sleep a bit better tonight knowing local officials don’t want to see the demise of her farm.

Now she and her husband wait to see what the Commonwealth Transportation Board does — the group in Richmond that could decide to turn her 80-year-old farm in Haymarket into a commuter lot to serve Interstate 66.

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I-66 inside Beltway toll plan unpopular at town hall

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 25, 2015 at 11:22AM | Updated October 25, 2015 at 3:21PM

Republican state legislators said Northern Virginia residents are being treated like the state’s “ATM” for a plan to toll all lanes of Interstate 66 inside the Beltway.

Republican leaders from Richmond and locally elected GOP leaders in Prince William County gathered on stage Oct. 22 for a town hall meeting at Battlefield High School in Haymarket to protest the Virginia Department of Transportation Plan plan backed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

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Special session of Prince William Board of Supervisors to address I-66 commuter parking lot

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 23, 2015 at 10:23AM | Updated October 23, 2015 at 4:17PM

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The special meeting of the Board of Supervisors will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 26, 2015.

Chairman Corey Stewart will call a special meeting of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors to discuss plans to build a commuter parking lot on a county farm.

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City Council OKs Manassas Gateway waterfront development

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 23, 2015 at 8:50AM | Updated October 23, 2015 at 9:07AM

Manassas will move ahead with a plan make old farmland into a new waterfront development.

The City Council this week with a vote of 5-2 to instruct the city’s Economic Development Authority to sell 40 acres of land on Gateway Drive, between Prince William Parkway / Route 234 Bypass and the Manassas DMV, to Buchanan Partners. The firm will develop the property into space for retail, offices, restaurants, hotels, and 279 new homes.

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Ground broken on retail portion of Aquia Towne Center: ‘It’s finally happening’

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 21, 2015 at 11:54AM

A 76,000 square foot, concept grocery store will anchor the retail center at the latest incarnation of Aquia Towne Center.

The once bustling 200,000-square foot shopping center was razed in 2007. The land sat dormant until this year, and now 256 apartments are now coming up out of the ground on about half of the 25-acre property.