As localities all around the U.S. move to discourage the use of plastics, Virginia will once again mull taxing an item so common that most people encounter it every single day: the plastic bag.
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Police in Manassas say they’re working to curb theft and abuse of prescription medications.
In a new partnership, they’re now working to take back prescription meds in an effort to bring awareness to drug misuse and abuse.
In a letter to President Trump today, the governor says the commonwealth is welcoming of “refugees who are fleeing war, persecution, or other dire circumstances.”
His statement is in response to a federal Executive Order from President Trump signed in October 2019 which requires state governments to say whether or not refugees were accepted in those states, ordering the Department of “Health and Human Services shall develop and implement a process to determine whether the State and locality both consent, in writing, to the resettlement of refugees within the State and locality, before refugees are resettled within that State and locality under the program.”
OmniRide is shifting the center of its local bus service in western Prince William County to Manassas, which will become the main transfer point for local bus service in the area starting Monday, December 9.
The current western local bus western transfer point is Manassas Mall but will become the Prince William County Courthouse. OmnRide says these are the most revolutionary changes for its system in the past 15 years.
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Mae was born on April 19, 1956 and passed away on November 25, 2019. Mae was a resident of Woodbridge, Virginia.
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Dark Star Saloon & Cafe serves fresh farm-to-fork, gourmet food in a casual environment.
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A new 1,400-space, seven-floor commuter parking deck will be built between Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center and Wegmans in Woodbridge, where a new Potomac Nationals baseball stadium was slated to go.
The stadium deal fell through in 2o17 when the team and county leaders couldn’t reach a stadium financing deal. The team moved to Fredericksburg, became the Fredericksburg Nationals, and is slated to play ball in a new $30 million stadium in April.
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Tony’s New York Pizza has moved and held a reopening ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new location 8891 Centreville Road in Manassas.
Customers, family members, and city officials who have been with Tony’s family for almost 30 years enjoyed the restaurant’s new interior improvement.
The county will consider temporarily moving the Ferry Farm voting precinct in the George Washington District.
It would be relocated from Ferry Farm Elementary School Strong Tower Church located at 234 Ferry Road while the school is undergoing renovations next year.
Joshua Jennings, who runs a gun store in Cascade, is nervous about the prospect of additional gun regulation that has been proposed by Gov. Ralph Northam amid Democrats seizing control of the General Assembly next year.