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Raising Cell Phone Towers at Schools Could Earn Cash for Stafford County

By Uriah Kiser
Cell phone towers could be soon be erected next to stadium lighting several Stafford County Public Schools if a new agreement is approved. [Image: Stafford County]

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.

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New Taxes on Food, Fun, Considered to Pay for Class-Size Reduction in Prince William

By Uriah Kiser
Walts

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.

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Feds Step In to Improve Culvert on Heavily Traveled Industrial Road in Dumfries

By Uriah Kiser
[Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]

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.

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McAuliffe Accepts Economic Plan, Urges Business Leaders to Push for Obamacare Expansion

By Uriah Kiser
Virginia Gov.-Elect Terry McAuliffe accepts the “Blueprint Virginia” economic plan presented to him by Virginia Chamber of Commerce President Barry DuVal, on the right. [Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Gov.-Elect Terry McAuliffe wants Virginia business leaders to put pressure on state legislators to expand Medicaid across the commonwealth.

At meeting with the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and hundreds of state business leaders in Williamsburg on Wednesday, McAuilffe alluded to his priorities for the upcoming General Assembly session starting in January.

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Planning for $40 Million Public Safety Complex Begins, Opening Set for 2016

By Uriah Kiser
Vice President of Mosley Architects Jay Moore talks to a group of Prince William County residents about a new public safety complex, to include a fire and police station, at the corner of Prince William Parkway and Davis Ford Road. [Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]

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.

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Prince William’s Packed Classrooms Factored into Economic Development Effort

By Uriah Kiser
Kaczmarek

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — In an effort to get out of the shadow of larger area counties, Prince William County wants to add to the list of businesses it wants to lure to the region.

Economic development officials want to attract more companies that deal in materials and life sciences, such as engineering firms, and more logistical business, such as warehousing and short-hauling trucking companies, and defense-industry jobs like cyber security, are keys to growth in the county.

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Family Member: Build School Around Grave Sites

By Uriah Kiser
About 11 grave sites were found at the site of the soon-to-be-built 12th high school in Prince William County. [Photo: Prince William County Public Schools]

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.

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