NORTH STAFFORD — A new head start center in North Stafford opened this week with little fanfare.
“There wasn’t a letter sent out to parents about it being opened. There wasn’t anything on Facebook. There was something on Twitter, but I don’t tweet,” one parent told the Stafford County School Board during its Tuesday night meeting.
LAKE RIDGE — A new wellness park is coming to the site of an old commuter parking lot.
The two-and-half acre lot at the corner of Harbor Drive in Minnieville Road, near a Senatra Medical Center, will be the home of what is being dubbed the Harbor Drive Wellness Park. It’ll feature playground equipment for all ages, from toddlers to seniors, to people with disabilities.
STAFFORD — The rural roads of Stafford are failing to support the county’s continued urban development, and residents are speaking out.
Many in recent months have pressed elected members of the Stafford Board of Supervisors, demanding for action on a variety of transportation issues. All have expressed common frustrations about the time it takes the Virginia Department of Transportation to safety concerns.
LAKE RIDGE — Ruth Anderson is standing behind her call to name a new park after the late Michele McQuigg, a longtime public servant who came under fire when she opposed same-sex marriage.
The Prince William County Park Commission last month decided to go back the drawing board when it comes to naming the 15-acre park at the corner of Old Bridge Road and Oakwood Drive in Lake Ridge. It was asked to make a recommendation on whether or not McQuigg’s name should be used for the park.
NORTH STAFFORD — After it rains, the tennis courts at the Apple Grove community in North Stafford are submerged in water.
When the neighborhood was built in 2000, the developer of the neighborhood lined with single-family homes built the courts in a floodplain, behind, and down a hill from the houses.
MANASSAS — After a year of construction, on July 26, Manassas leaders announced the opening of a new apartment complex, Messenger Place, as Downtown Manassas development continues to boom.
The name, Messenger Place, pays homage to the News & Messenger Newspaper formed in 1857, and eventually closed down in 2012.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Residents got a look at new plans for the Rural Crescent.
The 117,000-acre landmass in Prince William County, stretching from Quantico Marine Corps Base to Manassas National Battlefield, has been the topic of a years’ long debate over how to best develop the land.
STAFFORD — David Decatur is seeking a second term as Stafford County Sheriff.
With the Republican nomination, the 33-year veteran of the Stafford sheriff’s office is hanging his hat on his experience, community involvement, and work to improve pay and recruit new deputies to the force.
STAFFORD — Danielle Sullivan has been driving a Stafford County school bus for the past five years.
“They don’t talk about this stuff in training,” she said.
WOODBRIDGE — The mission at Virginia Railway Express is clear: Get more people onto its trains.
Ridership on Virginia’s only commuter railroad remains flat over the past eight years, and that has officials inside VRE ringing alarm bells.
