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High gas prices won’t stop drivers from packing the highways next week

By Potomac Local News
Photo: Virginia Department of Transportation

Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and Americans will kick off the season by traveling in near-record numbers. What a start it is, this time around. More than 41.5 million Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend, nearly 5 percent more than last year and the most in more than a dozen years, according to AAA. 

With nearly 2 million additional people taking to planes, trains, automobiles and other modes of transportation, INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, expects travel delays on major roads could be up to three times longer than normal. 

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Want a better Route 1 in Dumfries? You’ve got until midnight Saturday to comment.

By Potomac Local News
U.S. 1 north in Dumfries. [Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]

If you ever get down to Dumfries to talk to its residents, one of the first things you learn is the state of U.S. 1 is one issue that binds all of its residents together.  In the next three days, they have an opportunity to do something about it.

Dumfries and its communities to the east along the Potomac River have basically only three ways to get out of town – U.S. 1 North, U.S. 1 South, and two-lane Van Buren Road.  In fact, U.S. 1 cuts across the creeks for each peninsula into the Potomac River, within a quarter mile of where each creek becomes tidal.  This basically turns each peninsula into a massive cul de sac.

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Where to find bike racks refreshments pitt stops on Friday, Bike To Work Day

By Potomac Local News

From a press release: 

Will you be one of the thousands of Washington-area residents who participate in Bike to Work Day on Friday, May 18?  Be one of the first 20,000 to register and attend a pit stop in D.C., MD, and VA to receive a free T-shirt, refreshments, and be entered into a raffle for a new bicycle.

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Manassas Rotary recognizes city police officers as part of 2018 Police Week

By Uriah Kiser
Manassas Police Officer Marcus Hyde and City Police Chief Douglas Keen.

MANASSAS — The Manassas Rotary honored the city’s police force on Wednesday as part of National Police Week.

Manassas police officers chose their fellow co-worker, Officer Marcus Hyde, 29, as their Officer of the Year. City police Chief Douglas Keen recognized Hyde for his service over the past year, knocking down a door to save the life of a choking woman, applying tourniquets to bleeding victims, and helping to run down a suspect while jogging on his time off.

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Manassas hikes taxes to cover school funding promise, capital improvements

By Uriah Kiser

MANASSAS — A promise to make good on a funding request for city schools is forcing taxes to rise. 

The Manassas City Council on Monday approved its $239 million budget which increases the average property tax bill 3.72%, producing an average tax bill of $4,075 for homeowners.

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