DUMFRIES, Va. — The Town of Dumfries annual Black History Month celebration may be canceled.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (Fairfax, Prince William), Prince William County School Board member Lillie Jessie, and Dumfries Elementary School Principal Marlene Coleman were invited to speak at the event. None have accepted the invitation to speak.


2016 Republican Presidential Candidate Carly Fiorina will speak the Prince William County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. 

The $85 per ticket event will take place 7 p.m. March 4 at Heritage Hunt Country Club, at 6901 Arthur Hills Drive in Gainesville. 


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Norman Jones III, a senior at Stonewall Jackson High School took home first place in Prince William County Alumnae Chapter Delta Sigma Theta’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Oratorical Contest for the third consecutive year. Jones a passionate and posed speaker has also spoken before the Department of Justice and the Prince William County School Board.


MANASSAS, Va. — The way Manassas residents cast their votes in elections is about to change.

The City Council tonight is expected to approve $101,000 in funding for the purchase of 11 new optical scanning voting machines. The city is the last jurisdiction in Northern Virginia to make the switch from the old touch-screen voting machines in use since 2000 that were banned by state officials following the 2012 Presidential Election.


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