Things at Manassas Mall — They’re changing.
The indoor shopping center on Sudley Road just outside Manassas got a new property management company that is already breathing new life into the 43-year-old mall. New mall entrances, new soft seating, new landscaping, and a few new tenants are some of the changes happening.
London Colvin – the 21-year-old Army Reservist and Norfolk State University student who was attacked by a Norfolk police dog last week – is recovering, but she has a long way to go. Colvin, who is a Woodbridge Senior High School graduate, has been recuperating in Woodbridge since the Jan. 25 attack.
“She’s still doing a lot of crying, but our hope is that it’s going to get better and better and better, so that she can get back to where she was before this event occurred,” said Jon Babineau, a lawyer at Riddick Babineau that is representing Colvin.
Some members of the Prince William School Board don’t want to see cuts in full-day kindergarten. This year’s budget picture, however, could make those cuts a reality.
The Board last night gave Prince William Schools Superintendent Dr. Steven Walts some direction on how to best go about finding needed cuts in the division’s 2016 budget. This decision met resistance from board members who said that they would not approve of cutting full day kindergarten.
The Stafford County Sheriff’s Department will be getting a new 9-1-1 emergency calling system that will cost $807, 540, to serve more than 136,000 Stafford County residents.
According to Carol Adams, ECC Director at the Stafford Sheriff’s Department, the changes are necessary, as the current emergency calling system has become obsolete.
Dumfries Councilman Derrick Wood, a small business owner and Marine Corps veteran, has announced his plans to run for Potomac Supervisor on the Prince William County Board of Supervisors this year.
A graduate of Stratford University, Wood works as a Community and Military Outreach Manager while running his own mobile catering business, BBQ in Motion.
Grocery chain Wegmans will open a new location in Alexandria on June 14. The new store will bring five hundred jobs to the area.
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Clayton Lee Hill was identified as the suspect in a purse-snatching incident at Giant Food store in December. The Manassas City Police were able to identify Hill after a five-week investigation. He is currently in custody, with a pending court date.
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Senator Tim Kaine met with students from Woodbridge Senior High School on February 3 at a reception for the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Student Fair.
Held at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. the fair was part of a celebration for CTE month, according to the Association for Career and Technical Education’s website.
The Prince William County Department of Economic Development has seen an uptick in capital investment, which will bring $513 million dollars and hundreds of jobs to the county.
The department, which has been running for eighteen years, has brought in private capital investments mainly in the life science and information technology industry. The county has secured nineteen projects and will see the addition of four hundred and sixty-nine new jobs, and more than one hundred jobs retained in the area.
The board of directors of Didlake, Inc., a leading provider of employment and other opportunities for people with disabilities, has named Rick Sebastian as its new president, effective April 1.
Sebastian, an executive with 30 years experience in the disability services arena, will assume the role of president as part of an ongoing transition process in which he will ultimately succeed current president and CEO Rex Parr. Parr, who has led the organization since 1977, will remain as CEO while the transition plan is completed and continue to serve in a consulting capacity afterward.
