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Kaine Pushes for More Funding for Career Training for Students Bypassing Traditional College Path

By Uriah Kiser

MANASSAS, Va. — Megan Devine says she was never one of those “rich kids” who didn’t have to worry about paying for college.

The 28-year-old is a research assistant at George Mason University put herself through school in her home state of Illinois, and did well by finishing her required undergraduate coursework by the end of her junior year. Though she finished work for her undergraduate degree during her junior year she still had to take elective classes her senior year.

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Youth Hockey League Suspends Coach Charged with Assaulting Player

By Uriah Kiser

DALE CITY, Va. — An assistant coach with a youth hockey league in Prince William County is out of a job and now faces charges.

Police say Wayne E. Walczak, 55, of Woodbridge, was charged on June 14 with misdemeanor assault and battery after he shoved a 14-year-old male following a hockey game at the Prince William Ice Center on Dale Boulevard in Dale City.

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Floor & Decor Opens Today at Old Incredible Universe Building; Opening Festivities Planned

By Uriah Kiser
A Floor & Decor store in Reno, Nev. [Floor & Decor Facebook page]

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A new flooring store opens today in the old Incredible Universe electronics store outside Potomac Mills mall.

Floor & Décor will open its second store in Virginia, taking up some 80,000 square feet for showroom at 14041 Worth Avenue in Woodbridge. The store will sell marble, hardwood, travertine, granite, ceramic, tile, and laminate flooring to individuals and contractors.

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Potomac Shores VRE Station Gets Green Light; Improvements to Stafford Stations Coming

By Uriah Kiser

First on PotomacLocal.com 

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A new Virginia Railway Express station in Prince William County, and improvements to two stations in Stafford County are coming thanks, in part, to a private developer building the Potomac Shores neighborhood near Dumfries. 

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Stafford Official: Fence Would Restrict Access to Falmouth Beach

By Uriah Kiser
Officials say a proposed split rail fence at Historic Port of Falmouth Park would restrict access to a popular beach on the Rapphannock River.

FALMOUTH, Va. — There is a now a plan to improve the parking lot at the Historic Port of Falmouth Park, and with it restrict access to a popular beach on the Rappahannock River.

The proposed plan, with an overall $230,000 price tag, calls for building a split rail a fence in the park near the river shoreline. It’ll mean removing a fence and gate that now that sits at the park’s entrance on River Road.

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Will First Town Center be the ‘Lone Ranger’ that Transforms Dumfries?

By Uriah Kiser
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DUMFRIES, Va. — A Dumfries developer is betting that you would pay nearly $1,300 per month to live in a newly built one-bedroom apartment.

The Promenade at First Town Center is the off again, on again development that could soon line Main Street (U.S. 1 south) in Dumfries between the ACTS Thrift Store and a commercial building next to Town Hall.

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Road Work Ramps Up in East End, County Managing Record Number of Projects

By Uriah Kiser

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Orange cones, lane closures, and traffic delays have been a common sight in the eastern part of Prince William County as of late.

That’s because there’s more roadwork happening now then there has been in many years. In fact, Prince William County’s Department of Transportation is managing more transportation projects at one time than ever before.

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