Update 8:30 p.m.
Dominion now reports 157 outages in Stafford County.
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The Chapter meets the third Thursday each month from 11:30am to 1:00pm at Stratford University, 14349 Gideon Drive. Cost for the lunch specially prepared by Stratford University’s culinary students is $15.00. Open to businesspersons working or living in and around Fairfax and Prince William counties. Guests welcome.
For more information about the meeting or the NVCC ABWA please visit the website at: https://www.freewebs.com/nvccabwa. Find NVCC ABWA on facebook at ABWA/Northern Virginia Charter Chapter. Visit https://www.abwa.org to learn more about National ABWA and WIN.
Like many others, I cautiously welcomed the news that Libyan rebels had finally entered Tripoli, the Libyan capital this week. Libyan strongman Muammar al Qaddafi and his forces appear to be defeated and after successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, an unclear result in Yemen and a failed one in Bahrain, Libya is poised to become the next nation to undergo a major political transformation that we have come to know as the “Arab Spring.”
The toppling of Qaddafi is particularly noteworthy. Qaddafi was a predecessor of bin Laden’s. He established ties to terrorist organizations early in his 42-year reign. He bankrolled groups as diverse as the Palestinian Liberation Organization, its terror off-shoot Abu Nidal, Germany’s Red Army Faction, Italy’s Red Brigades, and the Irish Republican Army.
The storm is expected to become a Category 4 storm that will churn it up seaboard and is expected to impact the Mid-Atlantic coast late Saturday into Sunday morning, bringing high winds to heavy rains to the coast.
For the Potomac Communities, well, the storm’s forecasted effects on us aren’t as clear.
The East Coast was rocked again overnight by an earthquake from Virginia.
The 4.5 magnitude quake was once again centered near where Tuesday’s large 5.8 quake originated in Mineral, Va., just 32 miles southwest of Fredericksburg, according to the USGS.
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Update:
Germanna Community College announced Thursday the college will return to class Tuesday, Sept. 6, following the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked the East Coast on Tuesday.
Nursing and dental hygiene students will resume classes Friday, Aug. 30, according to college spokeswoman Barbara Taylor.
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Woodbridge, Va. — Prince William officials plan to honor the 22 residents from the county who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
Nineteen of them were killed in a terrorist attack the Pentagon in Arlington and three at the World Trade Center in New York City.
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Update 9 p.m.
The U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed a 4.2 aftershock centered near Mineral, Va. at 8:05 p.m.
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Update 8:30 a.m. Wednesday
Trees are being cut back to make way for the new sidewalk, which will connect walking path lined with street lights along Hampton Park with a sidewalk at Eustace Road, near Woodlands Pool.
Garrisonville District Supervisor Mark Dudenhefer says the path has been a long time coming.