STAFFORD — Plastic straws are now banned in Stafford County Public Schools.
Conway Elementary School fourth-grade student Lily Tipling pushed for change and convinced the School Board to ban plastic straws at all Stafford County Public Schools. The ban went into place on Tuesday, May 6.
STAFFORD — The Stafford County School Board approved a 5% raise for all school employees in the county.
The across-the-board raise will cover teachers, bus drivers, administrators, and the superintendent which will cost the county a total of $10.6 million.
MANASSAS — Young adults in the area who want to give back to their community now have a new way to do so, thanks to a few enterprising young people in Manassas.
Laura Coates, Creative Director for Rotaract, as well as Program Coordinator for CenterFuse
WOODBRIDGE — As Prince William County’s population grows, so does the number of 911 calls handled by emergency dispatchers.
As the county quickly approaches nearly a half-million people, Director of Public Safety Communications Eddie Reyes said that not only is call the number of calls on the rise but adds the job is evolving with new smartphone technology.
OCCOQUAN — About 20 years ago, Dolores Elder heard someone say nothing noteworthy ever happened in Occoquan.
She was working at the manager of the tourist information center that once sat on Mill Street in the tiny riverside town. It was a statement she didn’t quite believe.
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WOODBRIDGE — When Metro shuts down its Blue and Yellow lines this summer, OmniRide will step in with an alternative to help commuters get where they’re going.
DUMFRIES — With her daughter in a passenger seat about to give birth, Jena Smith drove her truck the wrong way up Route 1.
She had one hand on the wheel and the other holding a cell phone. She was on the phone with Prince William County’s 911 center, where a dispatcher told her to do anything she could to get around the stalled traffic.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Once a refuge for low and middle-income workers priced out of Alexandria and Arlington, Prince William County is currently struggling to meet its population’s affordable housing needs.
Nonprofit organization directors in the area confirmed that the community is in need of housing assistance beyond the scope of existing support systems. But with fewer affordable communities planned in the county and housing programs that are already filled to capacity, no clear solution is readily available.
