WOODBRIDGE, Va. — There’s been another report of a man exposing himself in Woodbridge.
Police arrested a man they said pulled his car behind a 19-year-old woman from Manassas who was walking in Dillingham Square Shopping Center in Lake Ridge, followed her, pulled alongside her, began talking to her, and then exposed himself to her while making lewd gestures. The victim screamed and the man fled the area.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A local State Delegate has made his case to sufficiently fund the widening of a portion U.S. 1 in Woodbridge.
Mark Dudenhefer, R-Stafford, Woodbridge, penned a letter to Virginia Transportation Secretary Sean T. Connaughton to provide “sufficient funding” for widening the major thoroughfare from Featherstone Road to Mary’s Way, from a four-lane to a six-lane road. Prince William County transportation officials estimate that project will cost $53 million.
STAFFORD, Va. — More school resource officers are coming to six Stafford County Middle Schools.
A new $1.3 million grant from the Virginia Criminal Justice Services Board will partially fund the officers in all eight of the county’s middle schools. Currently, all five county high schools have resource officers, and two officers are assigned to a DARE program in the county’s 17 elementary schools to help educate children on the dangers of drug abuse.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Stafford County School officials named Tammara M. Hanna as the new principal of Drew Middle School this week. She replaces outgoing Principal Catherine Williams who will retire at the end of this school year.
Here’s more information about Hanna from Stafford County Public Schools:
MANASSAS, Va. — The Manassas City School Board has announced the appointment of several new principals for the upcoming 2013-2014 school year.
David Rupert — Weems Elementary
LAKE RIDGE, Va. — We have a better look at what the Dillingham Square Shopping Center in Lake Ridge will look like when renovations are completed later this year.
The shopping center just off Old Bridge Road will include a new outdoor facade and new landscaping.
SLUG TALES
I have an enemy in the slug line. And the thing is, he doesn’t even know it.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A motorcyclist fell to the ground Tuesday evening while traveling on Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge.
Police said the rider, a 61-year-old man from Woodbridge, sideswiped two other cars before falling to the ground. He was charged with reckless driving and suffered minor injuries, said Prince William spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Get ready for some more lane closures as part of the 95 Express Lanes starting on Friday night, between Washington, D.C. and Va. 234 in Dumfries. The lane closures are expected to be in place until Sunday morning.
Virginia Megaprojects provided a list of the planned closures:
![Prince William Supervisor Martin Nohe, who also serves as Chairman of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, identifies priority traffic and transit projects in the region. [Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]](https://www.potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/061813-nohe-nvta.jpg)
MANASSAS, Va. — Taxes are going up in Virginia on July 1 to pay for transportation improvements across the state.
Locally, elected officials on the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, and its chairman Prince William County Supervisor Martin Nohe, narrowed a list of 47 proposed transportation projects down to 33 that, if they were to be built, would cost taxpayers an estimated $500 million.
