PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A new Sheetz will be built at the corner of Ashton Avenue and Sudley Manor Drive near Manassas. The gas station and food mart will sit across the street from a busy Costco store in a heavily commercial area.

Residents and public officials that approved the new corner market raised concerns about increased traffic, loitering, the reconfiguration of streets around the gas station, and Sheetz’s signature illuminated bright red canopies that house gas pumps.


MANASSAS, Va. — Months of construction, orange barrels, and street closed but “shops open for business signs in Old Town Manassas are a thing of the past.

City officials today cut the ribbon on the new Main Street Streetscapes Project where sidewalks were widened in areas from four and five feet up to 16-feet-wide. The idea is two allow more outdoor restaurant seating in the Old Town business district.


PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Saturday is adoption day at the Prince William County Department of Social Services.

A special ceremony will be held at the Prince William County Circuit Court where 18 children will be adopted from foster care. All of the children up until this point were in foster care in the county.


MANASSAS, Va. — The bomb that was detonated by state police in Manassas last night was left Monday afternoon at 9510 Technology Drive. That is the home for the National Religious Broadcasters association.

No one was injured in the incident, and Manassas police have taken lead on the joint investigation. They are being assisted by state police, as well as federal authorities FBI and ATF, said city spokeswoman Patty Prince.


STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Stafford County turns 350 years old in 2014 and they’ll kick off the special birthday in North Stafford with the “party of the centuries.”

The daylong “Celebrate Stafford 350” event will take place in the Stafford Marketplace shopping center on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. The party will be held in the parking lot in front of the Target store, much like the annual National Night Out celebration held in the same lot each August.


PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Carolyn G. Lynn has spent countless hours researching the lives of past residents of Prince William County.

She publishes a blog, Prince William County Genealogy, and comes from a long line of Lynns – her family whose members that have called Prince William home since the at least the early 1800s.


Update 6:30 p.m.

Much of this the activity in this active investigation appears to be centered on the building the houses the offices of the National Religious Broadcasters headquarters. The company’s website states its mission is to “to proclaim the Good News of eternal life through Jesus Christ; to transform culture through the application of sound biblical teaching; and to advance biblical truth, to promote media excellence, and to defend free speech.”


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