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Tinesha Allen’s razor-thin margin of 18 votes over incumbent four-term Supervisor Jack Cavalier held firm during a daylong recount on Thursday at the Stafford County Courthouse. The Democrat will replace Republican when the new board convenes in January.

Stafford County Chief Judge Hon. Charles Sharp certified with the election results, along with help from Chief Judges Hon. Lisa Bondareff Kemler, of Alexandria Circuit Court, and Chief Judge Hon. William T. Newman, Jr., of the Arlington County Circuit Court.

Multiple filters are in need of replacement as they can no longer catch the sediments and particles that flow through the plant. 

The Stafford Board of Supervisors ordered the repairs and voted to amend a contract originally meant for CH2MHill Inc., a Delaware based engineering company that had originally completed project design in 2018, had originally been contracted to make repairs to the Smith Lake Water Treatment Plant in at Smith Lake Park.

A recycling program at the R-Board Regional Landfill in Stafford County acts as an alternative to dropping items off at businesses, such as big-box retailers that may charge recycling fees.

The program uses proceeds from electronic recycling to donate to several organizations.

The Manassas City Council has urged the General Assembly to support gun safety legislation including:

At a city council meeting on November 25, Councilman Mark Wolfe motioned for the resolution and Vice Mayor Pamela Sebesky seconded it. All members except voted yes, except Councilwoman Theresa Coates Ellis, who abstained from the vote.

A pair of bald eagles have nested in Manassas for years. 

Now, a documentary about the birds seeks to draw attention to the birds and the possible threat to their habitat as new houses and a hotel are going up on the city’s last piece of developable land: the Landing at Cannon Branch at Godwin Drive and Gateway Boulevard.

The new name would put the city’s airport — one of the busiest in the state — on the map, literally.

In a unanimous vote on Monday, Nov. 25, the Manassas City Council will urge Virginia Railway Express to change the name of the first station on the system’s Manassas line from Broad Run / Airport to Manassas Airport Station.