STAFFORD COUNTY — (Press release) Route 646 (Tacketts Mill Road) in Stafford County is closed to through traffic between Route 612 (Heflin Road) and 645 (Dunbar Road) for motorist safety after a drainage pipe failure.
Residents seeking to access driveways located on Tacketts Mill Road between Dunbar Road and Heflin Road are able to proceed. Access to all residential entrances will be maintained.
STAFFORD –– Stafford County will pass responsibilities for aquatics classes onto a Fredericksburg-based sports management group.
Eastern Sports Management will take over teaching aquatics classes at the Jeff Rouse Swim and Sport Center in Embrey Mill starting this summer. It’s the same firm that has overseen day-to-day operations for the Rouse Center since 2014.
STAFFORD — A new pedestrian path could link North Stafford with an area along Route 1 known as “The Wayside.”
Located just south of Coal Landing Road and once a rest stop along busy Route 1, “The Wayside” today is full of trees and was once a pull-off for highway drivers.
Starting today, we’re returning to a regular email newsletter schedule. I know, it’s been kind of sporadic of late.
I’m a big fan of sending our newsletter at 5 a.m., and, apparently, you are too. In our reader survey (which is still collecting responses) you’ve told us you really like our email newsletter.
MANASSAS — A woman is in critical condition after she was hit by a car on Cloverhill Road.
Police are searching for the driver of the car that hit her.
MANASSAS — The City of Manassas is planning projects for the fiscal year 2020 that will add park space to a historic site, give residents a one-stop shop for city customer service, and honor a local hero and champion of education.
The Manassas Customer Service Center
MANASSAS — The developers of a new Tru by Hilton Hotel will receive a $10,000 grant from the Manassas Economic Development Authority once the new hotel opens.
The $10,000 check from the EDA to hotel developer Holladay Properties amounts to a quarter of the organization’s total budget for economic incentives for 2018. The money will go to help offset the cost of development permits and fees and will be given after the hotel obtains its occupancy permit from the city.
RICHMOND — It’s a five-hour drive from Manassas Park to Galax — but in terms of life expectancy, the two cities are 25 years apart.
Residents of Manassas Park, a city of about 16,500 people in the Washington suburbs, live to 91 years old on average. But residents of Galax, a city of about 6,600 people in Southwest Virginia, typically live to just 66.
MANASSAS — Chantilly Air plans to break ground next month on 60,000 square feet of new hangar space at the Manassas Regional Airport.
Less than six months after opening up services to the public, Chantilly Air will build two new 30,000 square-feet hangars at the airport, along with 32,000 new square feet of office space.
NORTH STAFFORD — Olde Virginia Gourmet has hit a small-business milestone and is now in its fifteenth year in business.
Beginning as an out-of-the-home gift basket business called All Wrapped Up, it has evolved over the years to become known as “Stafford’s hometown country store.”.
