The Manassas City Council voted unanimously on Monday night to approve an agreement with the Prince William Board of County Supervisors for library services. 

The agreement will now head to the Board of County Supervisors on June 16. If signed, it would provide a library branch, run by the Prince William Library System, in Manassas at 10104 Dumfries Road in the Wellington shopping center.


Students in Stafford County middle and high schools may no longer be allowed to use cell phones in class for instructional purposes.

At the county’s June 9 school board meeting, the board discussed exhibits one and two of Regulation 2401, which would “eliminate the use of cell phones in the classroom for instructional purposes,” according to school board documentation.


School may be out of session, but the fourth round of student representatives to the Prince William County School Board have been announced.

Rising seniors Ben Kim of Stonewall Jackson High School and Caroline Silvera of C.D. Hylton Senior High School have been chosen to serve as co-student representatives to the school board. Rising senior Ashley Menjivar of Woodbridge High School was additionally chosen as an alternate student representative. These three students were chosen out of a list of twenty-one finalists.


After hundreds of suggestions and multiple school board meetings, a name has finally been chosen for Prince William County’s 13th high school.

The school, which will be located at 13150 University Boulevard in Gainesville, has been named Gainesville High School. The naming was approved at the Prince William County School Board’s June 10 meeting, where the board also named the school’s library media center in honor of Officer Ashley Marie Guindon and its Student Services Center in honor of Lillian Orlich.


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