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By KJ MUSHUNG
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Sweet Frog premium frozen yogurt shop recently opened in Stafford County. The warm weather has brought a lot of foot traffic into the shop in Brafferton Center on Va. 610 in North Stafford, a few stores down from Sport & Health Club.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Investigators identified a man they say can be linked to a series of 32 larcenies form cars in North Stafford.
Bill Kennedy of the Stafford sheriff’s department said several larcenies from autos have been reported over the last few weeks in the Shadow Woods and Towns of Hampton Oaks neighborhoods.
By KRISTINA SCHNACK KOTLUS
PWC Moms
As part of the “Let’s Move” initiative to raise a healthier generation of kids, the National Park Trust is hosting “National Kids to Parks Day” on May 19. People nationwide are being encouraged to sign up on via website and pledge to take their children outside to a park that day. Several parks in or near the Potomac Communities are participating by hosting events in honor of the day.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — George Allen is scheduled to stop in at the Prince William County Republican Headquarters tonight.
Allen, who is seeking the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate in Virginia, will meet volunteers at the headquarters in Woodbridge at 6 p.m., according to a release from his campaign.
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Last year, NOVA Fortnightly, the newspaper of Northern Virginia Community College, became the first publication of the college to ever win a Virginia Press Association award.
Traci J. Brooks, Joshua Davis and Ling Lee won awards in photography and photo illustration for work published in 2010. They competed against mainstream newspapers.
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MANASSAS, Va. — The Prince William Boys and Girls Clubs has developed a website for mobile devices that allows you to easily give online.
The new site, m.bgcprincewilliam.org, provides information about the clubs in Dale City, Dumfries, and Manassas, as well as videos of children who benefit from the clubs’ activities. There’s also a link to donate to the “Send a Kid to Camp” campaign, which organizes summer youth activities for children involved in the clubs, said clubs director Glenn Vickers.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — A church in North Stafford was burglarized and now lawn its care equipment is missing.
A sheriff’s deputy was called to the Stafford Korean Baptist Church on Onville Road, just off Va. 610, on Tuesday when the a riding lawnmower, push mower, gas, and other items were reported stolen from a shed. The burglary happened between 8 and 10:30 a.m., said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
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UPDATE
Officials report Northampton Boulevard is now open in the area of Woodlands Pool and Eustace Road in North Stafford.