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STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Stafford officials want to make some extra cash by leasing land for cell phone towers at schools, parks, and other locations in the county.
A lease agreement could net the county as much as $2.8 million over a 15-year period, and all it would require is entering into a contract to lease out the space where cell phone towers will be built to a private company.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — When it comes to raising money to reduce class sizes in Prince William County, will property taxes go up, or will new taxes be levied on food, fun, and vices?
Officials elected to both the County Board of Supervisors and the School Board are wrangling with reducing the number of students per teacher in Prince William’s public schools. The county boasts the largest class sizes in the Washington, D.C. region.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Working with federal representatives, Dumfries has secured funds to help with improvements at Quantico Creek.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Fairfax, Prince William) announced $330,750 in federal disaster recovery aid has been awarded to improve a culvert that allows Quantico Creek to flow under the 2-lane Possum Point Road. The culvert, which an official says appears to be sinking slowly into the water, will be realigned and the area around it cleared of excessive sediment that has collected there over the years.
Opinion
I won’t cover the Black Friday mad dash this year. That means I won’t be standing in line with several impatient people all waiting to score a “good deal” on a cheap TV.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Residents got their first look Thursday night at a new public safety complex planned for mid county.
A new 50,000 square-feet, 2-story police station, and a 15,000-square-feet fire station that, will sit at the corner of Prince William Parkway and Davis Ford Road near the Prince William County Government Center. It’s expected to cost nearly $40 million to build both structures. Officials said it’s very early in the design phase of the new buildings, and added they are expected to be completed by 2016.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Carolyn G. Lynn has spent countless hours researching the lives of past residents of Prince William County.
She publishes a blog, Prince William County Genealogy, and comes from a long line of Lynns – her family whose members that have called Prince William home since the at least the early 1800s.
