Manassas
Virginia Railway Express wants a federal planning grant to study how extreme heat, inland flooding and storms could affect its tracks and stations. The Operations Board on Sept. 18 recommended authorization to submit that application jointly with the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority.
The recommendation covers the U.S. Department of Transportation PROTECT planning-grant round for fiscal years 2024 through 2026. PROTECT is the Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation program. Chief Executive Officer Katie Choe told the board she expects the grant to be about $800,000, fully reimbursed, with no local match. That figure is her expectation. It is not an award, and the written item does not state a dollar amount.
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City staff is recommending the council approve a rezoning at 9007 Center St., InsideNoVa reports. The plan is 162 apartments and a five-story, 536-space garage on the former Manassas Ice & Fuel site. The city bought the land in 2025. A hotel on the old Olde Towne Inn property is not part of this vote. Potomac Local already covered the Planning Commission recommendation.
The deadline to pay Manassas personal property taxes without a penalty is Oct. 5, the city said.
Payments can be made at manassasva.gov/paymybill. A check paid after 5 p.m. can go in the night box on the left side of City Hall.
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Manassas was the biggest rival for the IBM campus that opened in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, in 1965, the News & Observer reports, in an item drawn from a new book on the park.
The item says that campus employed 1,000 people, more than half of them local, and that Virginia’s massive resistance after Brown v. Board of Education steered IBM to North Carolina. It says the last segregated school in Manassas stayed open until 1966.
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The Manassas Journal will hold the forum Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Manassas Museum, 9101 Prince William St., the Journal said. Arrive by 3:45 p.m. City Council candidates are set for 4 to 5:30 p.m., School Board from 6 to 7 p.m., and House of Delegates District 20 from 7 to 7:30 p.m. It runs until 8 p.m. and is open as capacity allows. Questions go to [email protected] by 5 p.m. today. The Journal has not named who is coming.
A GoFundMe for Barbara Lamot has raised $44,815 of a $60,000 goal, with 233 donors. Kiley Morgan of Bealeton organized it for funeral costs, bills, and groceries. The Fauquier Times reports neighbors are rallying for the family. Lamot, 48, of Bealeton, was killed Sept. 30 at United Rentals on Wellington Road. Potomac Local’s story.
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