Today, Manassas held its 38 Annual Arbor Day Celebration at Liberia House Manor at at 10 a.m.
To mark the event, the city held an Elementary School Poster Contest themed ‘May the Forest Be With You.’ It included students from Pre-K to 4th grade, and its winners were recognized at the Arbor Day Celebration.
Mother’s Day is right around the corner (Sunday, May 8, 2022), and the UPS Store at Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center has everything you need to send mom love this Mother’s Day.
Visit the UPS Store at 15000 Potomac Town Place, Suite 100, Woodbridge, Virginia, 22191. Our store is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m to 8 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from Noon to 5 p.m.
A Spotsylvania man is accused of slamming his car into a county deputy’s vehicle while driving under the influence on March 21. The suspect is due in a Spotsylvania County courtroom in August on DUI and driving on a revoked license charges.
Meanwhile, the same suspect was sentenced to 10 days in jail after a Stafford County deputy stopped him for holding a cell phone while driving.
A pickup traveling on a street lined with single-family homes plowed into a flatbed truck.
The crash occurred about 8 a.m. on Choptank Road, behind a Walmart Neighborhood Market in North Stafford. No one was injured.
The Rappahannock Area Office on Youth will receive funding from Stafford County in order to fund substance abuse treatment programs.
Eight Northern Virginia Breweries have teamed up to brew Putin Huylo Ale for Ukranian Refugee Relief.
In collaboration with Pravda Brewery in Lviv Ukraine, eight breweries joined in Pravda’s global effort to brew beer to raise funds & awareness for Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion. Proceeds from the sale of the beer, Putin Huylo will be donated to World Central Kitchen-Ukraine, GlobalGiving Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund, and Pravda Brewery’s community relief efforts in Lviv, Ukraine.
[Updated Friday, April 22] A woman is facing assault and battery, and trespassing charges after an incident at John Jenkins Elementary School.
Two school staff members, a 55-year-old and 31-year-old woman, approached the woman and asked her why she was in the school. The woman continued to walk past the two staff members further into the building.
Police said a 9-year-old girl student was on the bus when she began to engage with the bus attendant. At one point, the victim grabbed the hair of the bus attendant who was seated in front of her. According to police, the attendant turned around and smacked the girl.
Police said the victim’s family reported the incident days after it happened. On April 20, officers reviewed camera footage from the bus depicting the encounter and confirming the assault.
