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Prince William Board opposes VDOT taking Heflin Farm for commuter lot

By Uriah Kiser

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

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
stewart, prince william, supervisor
Corey Stewart

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

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

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.

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Water tour tells story of ‘Blockade of the Potomac,’ showcases river sights

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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Walmart Neighborhood Market coming to North Stafford

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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Prince William School Board at odds over new high school design, cost

By Uriah Kiser
Patriot High School in Nokesville

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.

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Reprinting Prince William election ballots could cost thousands

By Uriah Kiser

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.

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