By PATRICIA S. HARMAN
Aquia Harbour Police Department Chief
Accepting community assistance is always a double-edged sword for a police chief. The idea that people want to work as a team with their public safety officials is endearing and desirable but then there is the additional work; training, monitoring, mobilizing and more. It can be endless.
MANASSAS, Va. — Coach “Hatch” does it for the kids. William Hatchett has been a coach at the Boys and Girls Club of Manassas for close to three years.
“Hatch,” as he is known around the club, has five children that participate in the club’s basketball league three times a year.
UPDATE 5:30 p.m
All four occupants of a Toyota Scion that crashed in the 1200 block of Aquia Drive in Aquia Harbour on Thursday suffered serious injuries.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. – On Wednesday July 25, 2012 at 9:28 p.m., Stafford County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to a reported structure fire at 100 Hyde Park in Sunnydale Meadows, behind Stafford Marketplace shopping center on Va. 610.
The first unit arrived on scene within six minutes reporting fire in the basement extending to the first floor of a Townhome. Once firefighters confirmed all occupants had exited the home they worked to extinguish the fire which was under control within ten minutes.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Three pounds of marijuana was found a home in North Stafford.
Stafford’s sheriff’s special investigative unit was called on July 18 to 212 Fallsway Lane in North Stafford to investigate a report of marijuana at the home. They charged 27-year-old Stephanie Patricia Engleman with possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
Someone set fire to a portable toilet that was sitting near a dumpster outside the school on Parkway Boulevard in North Stafford.
A passerby who called 911 at 2:08 a.m. noticed a dumpster on the school’s grounds had caught fire. A sheriff’s deputy was dispatched and he traced the source of the blaze to the porta potty. The fire department was called to put out the flaming poo.
By URIAH KISER
One of the most unique and fun-to-watch events we cover all year is the Stafford Cardboard Boat Regatta.
The ’99 Virginia Crushers from Woodbridge started the week disappointed to learn that they would not be able to play up in 14U for the 2012 USSSA Blue-Gray Summer Shootout in Ellicott City, Md. due to an uneven number of teams in each age division. The Crushers understood the tournament directors need to even out the divisions for timely tournament play. Twenty six teams competed in the 12U division this year and even though the temperatures reached triple digits each day, the Crushers perspired and persevered to win the 12U Gold Championship by going 6-0-1.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — A woman was abducted at knifepoint in her own home while her boyfriend slept.
Authorities said a man walked through an unlocked basement door at a home on Va. 610 near the Lake Arrowhead subdivision about 5:40 a.m. Wednesday.
A new co-enrollment agreement will allow eligible students at Germanna to take a limited number of courses at UMW while they are still enrolled at the community college. A new direct transfer agreement will allow Germanna students to transfer into UMW’s liberal studies, or BLS, degree program, said UMW spokeswoman Marty Morrison.
A ceremony marking the new agreements will take place at the University’s Dodd Auditorium at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
