Manassas will host its annual restaurant week from Feb. 14 to 18, marking the first time since the start of the pandemic the city has held the event.
Restrictions put in place by Gov. Ralph Northam limiting the number of people who can be inside restaurants are still in place, to include requiring partons to remain six feet apart, wear facemasks when not eating, and put down their alcoholic drinks by 10 p.m.
Stafford County was excited to host the 2021 Disc Golf Stafford Invitational this past weekend on February 6 and 7. This two-day tournament put on by the Stafford Disc Golf Club brought 161 players with 70 percent traveling from outside of the Stafford region, including Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington D.C., and one player from Japan.
The tournament was hosted at Stafford’s Curtis Park Disc Golf Course and, for the first time ever, the Gauntlet Golf Club. The Gauntlet Golf Club created a hybrid pop-up course in support of the tournament and created a new partnership with the Stafford Disc Golf Club.
We should see much less snow than what was forecast to fall just 24 hours ago.
What had been five to eight inches of snow expected is now about two inches, according to the National Weather Service in Sterling. And for some — like Stafford County where a snow “hole” is forecast, there could be little to any accumulation.
A 26-year-old Stafford man was pulled from a wrecked car Tuesday and was taken to a hospital, where he later died.
The victim, Sean O’Driscoll, was driving a vehicle on Shelton Shop Road, near the Stafford Regional Airport, which struck a tree and collided with a fence. He was extricated from the vehicle and was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Stafford Cares is a county-wide initiative that includes a number of new programs and projects fostering the well-being of Stafford citizens and businesses. These programs are designed to help many in need, as our community recovers from the impact of the Coronavirus.
Stafford Cares projects will address a number of social and economic impacts from mental health, physical health, and financial stability in Stafford.
Another winter storm has our area in its sights. It could arrive tomorrow night and affect the region through Thursday morning.
The National Weather Service in Sterling issued a Winter Storm Watch for our area.
Oh! Market near Manassas recently opened their mini-food court with take-out options for sushi, Korean cuisine and Mexican-fusion dishes. K-Bop, Wasabiko and Taco-Chinoz are food court vendors specific to Oh! Market.
Oh! Market stocks a variety of international grocery items from many cultures, like the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Mexico, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and more. The food court normally has dine-in options, but due to COVID will only take out.
Construction is progressing on a project to replace the Route 1 bridge over Potomac Creek in Stafford County, and northbound drivers can expect a slight traffic shift in the work zone beginning Monday, Feb. 15.
Both northbound travel lanes will remain open. But as construction enters the next phase, northbound traffic will be shifted around 20 feet to the right to cross Potomac Creek. This shift allows crews to build the northbound lanes on the new bridge.
