Multiple jurisdictions in our region are reopening their local governments to the public.
The Board of Supervisors will resume meetings with in-person public comments on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Those seeking to make public comments at either the 3:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. meeting will be checked at the front door.
Just after 5 p.m. on Monday, February 22, units with Stafford County Fire and Rescue (SCFR) responded for a reported structure fire in the 600 block of West Rocky Run Road in the southern part of the county, near Fredericksburg.
First arriving units arrived seven minutes later to find smoke coming from all sides of a single-family home.
Beginning March 15, 2021, and continuing through May 31, 2021, Stafford County will begin a system-wide flush to ensure a high level of disinfection of all County water mains.
Once every two years, the County takes extra steps to maintain the 711 miles of water mains in the distribution system through a deep cleaning process called “free chlorination.”
By Lynn Forkell Green
The bagpipes will be silent again this year in Manassas.
Facebook’s efforts to police online ads for vaccine misinformation are unintentionally blocking messages from cities, health care providers and community and faith-based groups promoting Covid shots.
Foxwood Drive, 2/21, 9:18 p.m. Deputy F.A. Martinez responded for a report of an accident. The deputy learned the suspect, Ismael Sanchez Orellana, 43, of Annandale, had crossed over into the oncoming traffic lane striking the victim’s vehicle head-on. Sanchez Orellana smelled of alcoholic beverages and had glassy eyes. Field sobriety tests were administered and Sanchez Orellana was arrested. He was charged with driving under the influence-2nd offense in 5 years and driving on a revoked license. He was held without bond at the Rappahannock Regional Jail.
Manassas Park is working on rebranding itself as a destination.
It’s part of the city’s new downtown development, where it is building a town center with a plan to create a signage and branding concept. The audience it hopes to reach: the rest of Northern Virginia.
The Virginia State Police Wytheville Division Headquarters has received roughly 50 phone calls today (Feb. 20) from individuals living in Northern Virginia and neighboring states inquiring about a phone call from a VSP “trooper.”
The scammer has “spoofed” a legitimate VSP phone number with a 276 area code so he can appear credible.
U.S. flags won’t be flying on utility poles in Manassas neighborhoods, after all.
City leaders on Saturday quashed a pilot program that would have expanded the city’s flag ordinance to include residential neighborhood streets. For the first time, Old Glory would be allowed to hang on city-owned utility poles in those neighborhoods, the same as it does downtown.
Jefferson Davis Highway & Garrisonville Road, 2/18, 12:10 a.m. Deputy C.T. Richardson observed a vehicle speeding. As the deputy attempted to turn around and catch-up to the vehicle, the vehicle accelerated. The deputy then lost sight of the vehicle. Shortly later, deputies were dispatched to a hit and run. The victim advised the suspect vehicle sideswiped her vehicle and left without stopping. It is believed the suspect vehicle is the same vehicle Deputy Richardson observed speeding. The suspect vehicle is a tan or gray Honda sedan.
Telegraph Road & Jefferson Davis Highway, 2/18, 8:03 p.m. The victim reported he was driving southbound on Jefferson Davis Highway when a truck side swiped his vehicle. The driver’s side mirror was struck and damaged. The suspect vehicle is a white Ford F-250.
