More drivers in Northern Virginia are being cited for texting while driving than any other portion of the state.
New statistics from the police agency show 567 drivers were cited statewide for sending a text message while behind the wheel in 2013. A total of 287 of those drivers were cited while in Northern Virginia, to include Fairfax, Prince William, and Loudoun counties.
STAFFORD, Va.– The Before ‘n’ After Café on Wapole Street in Stafford has expanded into the county’s newest housing community Embrey Mill.
The eatery has opened its doors at Embrey Mill’s new community center, Embrey House, and will provide a full menu of appetizers, club sandwiches, Panini sandwiches, as well as fried foods like French fries, and fried macaroni and cheese. This is the second location for Before ‘n’ After Café which opened its first location in the Shops at Amyclae three years ago.
Brentsville jail renovations complete —Building stabilization, archeological work and masonry restoration are complete at the historic Brentsville Jail. [Insidenova.com]
The State of NoVa still growing fast, Loudoun now Virginia’s third largest county — New population estimates for Virginia were released Tuesday by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and they show that in the last three years, while Virginia’s population rose 3.2 percent, Northern Virginia’s population nearly doubled that. [Washington Post]
The clinic will be held at HomeTowne Auto Repair & Tire on U.S. 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 1.
The clinic will be led by Lori Johnson, an technician certified by the Nationals Institute for Automotive Service Excellence, or ASE. She is also the owner of “Ladies, Start Your Engines,” a business that works with independent automotive shops like HomeTowne to teach light automotive maintenance classes to women.
New poles have been erected along Interstate 95 as part of the Express Lanes Project.
More than 40 poles have been strung along a stretch of HOV lanes between Prince William Parkway and their current terminus in Dumfries. They’ll be used to light the highway facility, said a project spokeswoman.
Patch, the network of hyperlocal news websites once owned by Aol and sold this month to an investment firm, laid off nearly all of its workforce Wednesday.
Patch’s network of 900 hyperlocal news sites, including sites in Manassas, Manassas Park, Dale City, Lake Ridge, Woodbridge, and Fredericksburg, had editors who once were paid to gather news and cover their community.
A Woodbridge man is under arrest and is charged with indecent exposure.
Here’s more in police press release:
4 BD / 2 BA Single Family Detached
Agent: Claudia Sarmiento Long and Foster Real Estate
A new reservoir, Rocky Pen Run, was put into operation Tuesday, as development and population in Stafford County continue to grow. With water reserves to help serve the county’s 134, 352 residents, it is considered the largest public work project to take place in Stafford.
More information from a press release from Stafford County:
Quantico Ammo Supply Point expansion would encompass remains of cemetery —As far as anyone knows, no one is still buried behind Marine Corps Base Quantico’s Ammunition Supply Point, but there’s still the chance that workers expanding the facility in the next few years could come across human remains. [Stafford County Sun]
Prince William supervisors unveil road project wish list — Some of Prince William County’s worst traffic hotspots – U.S. 1, Va. 28 and Minnieville Road – were included in a new wish list of road projects approved by the Board of Supervisors last week.[Insidenova.com]
