OCCOQUAN — About 20 years ago, Dolores Elder heard someone say nothing noteworthy ever happened in Occoquan.
She was working at the manager of the tourist information center that once sat on Mill Street in the tiny riverside town. It was a statement she didn’t quite believe.
For the past decade, Mike Lovitt has walked through the door of his Chick-fil-A restaurant.
His greeting to customers who are already sitting down eating meals, and to those standing in line waiting to order is unmistakable.
STAFFORD — A Stafford County K-9 that passed away late last year was just honored again.
Deputy Scott Myers and his K-9 partner, Khaos, now have received the 2018 Patrol Case of the Year award from the Virginia Police Canine Association.
OCCOQUAN — (Press release) The Spring Occoquan Arts and Crafts Show will be held rain or shine on Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, June 2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in historic Occoquan.
A 50-year tradition, this award-winning outdoor street festival features hundreds of artisans and crafters from all over the region and U.S., delicious food, fun interactive activities for the kids, and a beer garden and band in the park.
LORTON — The Workhouse Arts Center’s favorite photo of the month was taken on the Ganges River in India.
Each month the arts center in Lorton has a People’s Choice Award, and this month’s goes to Rick Reda’s photograph “Rider at Sunrise.”
DUMFRIES — Stafford County’s newest resident was born on the floor of a fire station in Dumfries.
Kasey Lynnett Smith, 28, went into labor on Thursday, April 18. She was in a car with her mother, who was driving her to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge to deliver the child. Senatra, she said, is “where my doctors are.”
WOODBRIDGE — A Woodbridge author’s new book is inspired by spending time in the area’s homeless camps.
Richard Garon’s new novel, “Lee Fits,” is dedicated to Russell J. Campbell, a man he met in the homeless camps, situated alongside area streets. The wooded area around Potomac Mills malls has long been a haven for homeless living in tents in self-sustaining communities.
MANASSAS — The Manassas Symphony Orchestra will be joined by the Madrigal Singers of Osbourn Park High School for Beethoven Festival, an all-Beethoven performance at 7:30 pm on May 4, at the Hylton Performing Arts Center.
The Madrigal Singers perform under the direction of Dominic Izzo, the vocal teacher at Osbourn Park High School. Accompanied by the MSO under the direction of James Villani, they will perform Beethoven’s Mass in C Major (Kyrie, Gloria), and the ‘Hallelujah’ from ‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’.
Malachi, our 12-year-old student reporter, met with Dumfries Mayor Derrick Wood at town hall.
He got a lesson in small-town politics and heard from a long-time public servant whose been working to make Virginia’s oldest, continuously-chartered town more than a dot on a map.
MANASSAS — The Rooftop Productions presentation of Godspell, the 2012 version, is a joyous celebration of what a true ensemble cast can achieve, together.
The original, classic 1970’s, “Jesusical,” from a young Stephen Schwartz and the late John-Michael Tebelak was retooled, in 2012, as “a masterful retelling of the original sensation with contemporary references and dazzling new arrangements,” according to Musical Theatre International.
