North Stafford residents may be getting a new Lidl grocery store.
On Wednesday, the Stafford County Planning Commission unanimously recommended a rezoning classification, from R-1, Suburban Residential Zoning to the B-2, Urban Commercial Zoning on just over two acres at the intersection of Mine Road and Greenspring Drive.
Rain will begin falling across the region on Friday night will intensify during the overnight hours into Saturday morning.
Strong winds coming with the rain will also cause temperatures to fall rapidly. On Saturday morning, the temperatures will be in the 40s and 50s. According to the National Weather Service, as a cold front moves through, the mercury will drop into the 20s and 30s by afternoon.
Police report today officers found weapons at two Prince William County Public Schools.
On Friday, March 4 at 11:26 a.m., a School Resource Officer at Ronald Reagan Middle School, at 15801 Tanning House Place in Haymarket, was notified by school personnel that two students were each in possession of a knife.
The theme of the meeting is Partners in Equity and Inclusion. The goal is to extend an invitation to community leaders who work with underrepresented communities to learn the needs of the community, distribute information on government services and events, and expand opportunities to collaborate in partnership with community events, according to a county press release.
Participants are asked to register to attend before 6:30 p.m. The virtual meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
The work will close a southbound highway portion at milepost 136, Centreport Parkway near the Stafford Regional Airport. Crews will raise new steel beams into place at milepost 133, Route 17 near Falmouth, as part of the effort to extend the E-ZPass Express Lanes south from Route 610 in Garrisonville.
According to the Virginia Department of Transportation, inclement weather postponed the work to begin Monday, March 7.
The amount of crime is rising in Manassas.
Police Chief Douglas Keen presented his department’s annual report to the City Council on Monday, February 28, which shows violent crime increased nine percent in 2021. For every 1,000 residents, 20 crimes are reported. That’s up from 19 a year ago.
Several fine and performing arts organizations are about to get some needed cash infusions in the form of general operating grants.
In July, the Prince William County Government awarded $193,000 of county taxpayer funds as grants to the Prince William Arts Council. In turn, the non-profit organization will dole out funds to organizations that applied for the funding.
The Stafford County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on March 15 to consider changes to the county’s magisterial districts.
Those changes would involve adopting new election districts and precinct boundaries and new polling places. A county redistricting committee developed the option, which will be presented at the hearing and the board’s redistricting work session held this past February.
Soon, it could be selling cups of joe to residents of Stafford County and Interstate 95 travelers. Ohio-based Dunham Development applied for a conditional use permit for a drive-through business on Route 17 near Falmouth.
The county’s Planning Commission would need to hear the case, and, afterward, the Board of County Supervisors has the authority to approve the permit.
A projectile shattered a window on a school bus on Monday.
On March 7 at 2:50 p.m., officers went to West Longview Dr. and Franklin Street in Woodbridge (22191) to investigate a destruction of property report. Police learned a BB projectile struck a Prince William County Public School bus, police said.
