Stafford County Parks and Recreation Employees will conduct smoke testing at Woodlands Pool at 2 Northampton Boulevard in North Stafford between now and Friday.

The tests will be done each night at 9 p.m. and involve blowing smoke into the air circulating system in the dome-covered pool to see how it reacts in varying conditions, county officials say.


The charity is looking at two parcels in the Lake Arrowhead neighborhood, off Arrowhead Drive and Garrisonville Road (Va. 610), to build at least one home that will house a family that organization officials in a letter to the Stafford County Board of Supervisors stated “would like to stay in the county.”

In 2006, the County Board accepted two parcels of land in the neighborhood as a gift, according to county documents.


A teen that was arrested in Woodbridge is sentenced to 28 years in prison for a 2009 murder that took place in Mt. Vernon, the Quantico Corporate Center continues to grow and growth continues to be debated in Stafford County.


The cause of the outage is being investigated, but high winds have whipped the area this afternoon, blowing off the remaining portion of the iconic Potomac Mills sign.

Dominion crews were also working to restore power to about 40 customers in the Woodbridge and Lorton areas.


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