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Dumfries officials continue to take action against owners of properties deemed blighted.
The Dumfries Town Council will schedule a public hearing over the house at 17882 Main Street. The home sits along busy Route 1 south, the town’s main street.
There will be fireworks in Quantico again this Memorial Day weekend.
The tiny town on the Potomac River will spend more than $7,000 on a fireworks display for town residents and visitors. The show starts Saturday, May 23, at 9:15 p.m. and the show will be preceded by live music concert starting at 7 p.m.
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Voters heard from all three Democrats vying to replace longtime retiring State Senator Charles Colgan.
Four people were injured this morning in a crash involving two dump trucks and an SUV in North Stafford.
Four people who were traveling in two dump trucks were taken to a hospital suffering injuries that didn’t appear to be life threatening. The female driver of the SUV also involved in the crash refused to be taken to a hospital, said Stafford fire and rescue spokesman Mark Doyle.
Chief John Clair of the Quantico Town Police Department says body cameras are all the rage.
His six officers will soon get wired up with the mountable cameras that are meant to record a police officer’s entire day. That means every interaction with the public, good or bad.
Officials in the Town of Quantico reversed their illegal position of barring anyone from photographing, or recording audio or video during a public Town Council meeting without the full prior consent of Council.
Councilman Russell Kuhns motioned at the start of the meeting to reverse a decision approved last month by the Council to ban such forms of meeting documentation. Councilman Tom Davis seconded the motion. It passed without the support of Council members Peggy and Alex Alexander.
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The owner of the home at 3527 Maple Street in Dumfries made a phone call to Town Hall after seeing our story.
If this park could talk, it would probably say something like: “My name is River Mill Park.”
Parks don’t talk. That’s just silly. But “River Mill Park” is indeed the name of the new park at the end of Mill Street in Occoquan. The new green is still under construction. It replaces an old water treatment facility once owned and operated by Fairfax Water.
The Quantico Town Council is in violation of state law.
If you want to record video, audio, or take photographs during any of the Town Council’s public meetings, you now must first ask the council for permission.
You can look at it, and stand on its banks in and fish in it. But whatever you do, don’t boat or swim in Lake Manassas.
The lake remains closed to the public this summer, as it has for every summer since 2004. Manassas officials say they must do everything to protect the city’s drinking water supply from contamination, and to prevent the invasive Zebra Mussel from populating in the lake.
