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The first new townhomes at Featherstone Station are now selling.
The townhomes represent some the newest construction in the area in more than 50 years, and are located near the intersection of Route 1 and Featherstone Road in Woodbridge.
The Potomac River was brown, and unusually rough Saturday as a group of history lovers ventured out on the water.
“All of the sustained winds we’re getting out here makes it choppy, but we’re into fall now, and conditions change out here with the weather,” said Capt. Mark Perry, who ferried sightseers about on his Miss Rivershore boat.
A Walmart Neighborhood Market will be built in North Stafford.
The store will set next to a Sheetz gas station under construction on the corner of Garrisonville and Furnace roads. The Stafford County Board of Supervisors approved a special use permit to allow the store to have a drive-through window to allow customers to drop off and pick up prescriptions at the store’s pharmacy.
The Prince William County School Board once again finds itself arguing about transparency, and how to be the best stewards of taxpayer funds.
The discussion comes nearly two years after it approved one of the costliest high schools ever to be built in Virginia.
It could cost tens of thousands of dollars to fix misprinted election ballots in Prince William County.
Five candidates on the ballot for the November 3 General Election will not see their listed as they requested them. Many of the candidates use and requested shorter versions of their name to be listed on the ballot. They’re getting their full names instead.
Manassas is in talks with a developer to create the city’s first waterfront destination.
The focus is 40 acres of land that sits along Gateway Boulevard, between Godwin Drive and Prince William Parkway. A Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office sits on the land.
What was an issue that once defined Prince William County as a contentious place for immigrants to be is no more.
An audience member at a debate Thursday night with Democrat challenger Rick Smith, and Republican Prince William County Chairman At-large Corey Stewart asked the incumbent if immigration was going to be an issue.
If you see what looks like a pink police cruiser coming up from behind, pay attention because it’s the real thing.
Manassas Park police today placed in service its third “code pink” police unit. The car is a 2014 Ford Police Interceptor, fully loaded with lights, siren, radio, and other amenities to match its sister units in the department.
Habitat for Humanity is about to expand in a big way.
The organization’s arm in Prince William County that builds homes for those in need will relocate its “ReStore” from Center Street in Manassas to an old Food Lion store on Hastings Drive in the city.
The 15th-annual Taste of the Town will honor the man who is half responsible for the name of one of the area’s largest high schools.
J. Manley Garber is the founder longest serving board member at the Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative. His last name also makes up half of the name for Gar-Field Senior High School in Woodbridge.
