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Expanded Landfill Power Plant Comes Online, Loan Repayment Begins

By Potomac Local News
Photo taken at the Fortistar Prince William Energy Landfill Gas to Energy Facility Dedication Event Run-of-Show on Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 12PM - 2:30PM

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — An area landfill is turning more trash into energy.

A 4.8-megawatt facility that turns methane gas emitted by the landfill into electricity officially came online Wednesday at the Prince William County Sanitary Landfill on Va. 234. The new facility joins a 1.9 megawatt gas-to-energy facility in operation at the landfill since 1998.

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2 Safeway Shopping Centers in Dale City, Woodbridge Acquired for $40 million

By Potomac Local News
Market at Optiz in Woodbridge. [Image: Regency Centers]

Two shopping centers in eastern Prince William County were acquired for $40 million.

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How Upgrading Vehicles, Embracing the Web has Made Prince William Yellow Cab Successful

By Potomac Local News

local family that owns Yellow Cab of Prince William County logged over two million miles in 2012 and they did it with a smile.

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Governor-elect Vows Ethics Reforms

By Potomac Local News
Virginia Gov.-Elect Terry McAuliffe accepts the “Blueprint Virginia” economic plan presented to him by Virginia Chamber of Commerce President Barry DuVal, on the right. [Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]

RICHMOND, Va. – Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe said Wednesday that he would push for greater transparency and ethics reforms in state government.

McAuliffe spoke to a roomful of journalists after a panel discussion on political journalism ethics and political finance and gift-disclosure organized by the Associated Press.

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Manassas Charity Low on Food, Area Pantries ‘All Hurting’

By Potomac Local News
The House of Mercy’s food pantry has become so low in food that its hours of operation were reduced during most of November.

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MANASSAS, Va. – The House of Mercy, a nonprofit humanitarian organization in Manassas, is asking for donations of nonperishable food to help restock its pantry, which has become so low in food that its hours of operation were reduced during most of November, said House of Mercy Assistant Director Ann Cimini.

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Transferring Development Rights Could Help Preserve Open Space in Prince William

By Uriah Kiser
Logmill Road in western Prince William County has been described as a scenic drive with the Bull Run Mountain in the backdrop.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Residents like their open space, according to a new study by Prince William County.

Officials this past summer launched a survey that is part of a larger ongoing study on how to preserve the rural areas in the county, identify ways to preserve land, and to gauge if methods and regulations already in place are working to preserve enough of it.

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