A Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments official told Manassas City Council on Sept. 14 that federal-aid transportation money, public-safety networks, and recent city grants all run through the regional body Manassas helps fund.

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Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 ran Sept. 10 and walked the Prince William County file: a felon on probation, a February gun case, and a form saying the prosecutor’s office agreed to let him walk without cash. Read it here: Prosecutor said yes: Bond, a dead girl, and a silent CA’s office.

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ARTfactory’s production of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit opens Friday, Sept. 18, at the ARTfactory in Manassas.

The four-actor existentialist drama follows three souls — Vincent (Andrew Chi), Inez (Becca Parsons) and Estelle (Amantha Peterson) — ushered into a single room in the afterlife by a mysterious Valet. Expecting the physical torment of damnation, they instead find they are destined to become one another’s eternal tormentors, according to ARTfactory press materials. Ned Kieloch plays the Valet for performances Sept. 18–20, and Brendan Banner plays the role Sept. 25–27.


The City of Manassas and Historic Manassas Inc. are pausing October’s First Friday — the Pumpkin Palooza event set for Oct. 9 — after the Sept. 4 shooting that killed 16-year-old Patriot High School student Ashley Intihar.

The city announced the decision Monday.


Prince William County staff will take Bennett School memorialization concepts to a public meeting this fall, including graphics of how the 1908 building would be remembered in the existing Judicial Center or the proposed new courthouse.

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The Manassas Planning Commission on Wednesday, Sept. 2, unanimously recommended approval of a rezoning for a five-story parking garage and apartments at 9007 Center Street. City Council still has to make the final approval.

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School Board member Sara Jane Brescia on Thursday posted a one-page settlement to her school board member Facebook account showing the City of Manassas School Board agreed to withdraw and not start an investigation of her, restate limits on student transfers, and end the court fight she opened six weeks earlier.

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Manassas City school staff told the School Board on Tuesday that software meant to catch AI-written student work failed a procurement test, and members then parked a draft School Board Handbook for more work sessions instead of moving it toward adoption.

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From a free all-day arts festival in Manassas and Bat Boy at the Workhouse in Lorton to a Slave Dwelling Project weekend in Fredericksburg and WWII living history in Woodbridge, here are things to do Friday evening through Sunday.

According to the Hylton Performing Arts Center, Arts Alive! runs Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. across the Manassas campus at 10960 George Mason Circle, with free admission and no tickets required.


Two suspects were already out on bond, police chief says

Manassas police announced Wednesday that three men are in custody in the Friday night shooting that killed 16-year-old Patriot High School student Ashley Intihar during First Friday in Old Town.


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