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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Prince William leaders will spend $3.6 million for new land at the county’s public safety training center.
The 148-acre land grab will more than double the size of the grounds where police, fire, and rescue workers train.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A comprehensive plan amendment could lead to 130 new homes in the Rural Crescent.
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will hear a case for a comprehensive plan amendment, if approved, would allow for the conversion of 325 acres of preserved land in the Coles District into a semi-rural Mid-County Park and Estate Homes neighborhood of single-family homes, if built.
I’m posting your photos of the damage caused by today’s windstorm. Send them to ukiser[at]potomaclocal.com
Taken by Angela Marie at Henderson Elementary School in Montclair
STAFFORD — Two people who complained to Stafford County’s government about a Confederate battle flag high over Interstate 95.
One of them is a Stafford County resident Patricia Joshi who lives about six miles from where the flag flies over a home on Truslow Road and can be seen 80 feet over the highway.
STAFFORD — The technology that supports the region’s 911 system is more than 50 years old.
It’s based on copper wire technology, the stuff that for years — just as the telegraph of the 19th century did — has carried telephone calls across wires to old landline phones.
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.
