A plan to seek requests for proposals to outsource the management of Prince William County’s Public Libraries is dead.

The county’s Board of Supervisors voted 7-1 on Tuesday to kill the measure proposed this past spring by Gainesville Supervisor Peter Candland. He gave the dissenting vote.


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It’s this Saturday night at Tim’s in Dumfries . The not on the fourth fireworks show . We will have live music… https://t.co/cyTlBf9CdA


The Dumfries Town Council on Tuesday struck down a motion to pass a resolution demanding the  Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to require Dominion to haul away toxic coal ash from Possum Point Power Station on the Potomac River.

The utility is in the process of consolidating water and toxic coal ash – a by-product produced when the power plant burned coal from 1947 to 2003 before it converted to gas — from four coal ash ponds into one lined pond.


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