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.
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
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Residents should not toss glass into their recycling bins as trash haulers in Prince William County will no longer accept it for single-stream recycling.
County solid waste division chief Tom Smith told leaders it’s costing the county more than it used to recycle the product, as it must be shipped to processing facilities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, as one doesn’t exist in Virginia.
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.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — As Prince William County Public Schools experiences its smallest enrollment increase in recent history, plans for a fifteenth high school and two new middle schools have been nixed from the school division’s Capital Improvements Program.
The Capital Improvements Program (CIP) covers 2019 to 2028, and budgets projects to meet demands driven by enrollment growth and student population shifts.
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.
Good for the Ray family.
After watching more than three hours of public testimony at Tuesday’s Prince William County Board of Supervisors meeting, it was clear the family wanted the one thing any property owner wants when they go to sell — a fair market price.
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.”.
WOODBRIDGE — Frank Principi stayed true to his record of denying every newly proposed housing development in Woodbridge.
On Tuesday night, he sided with the majority of residents who filled seats at a public hearing, and nearly four hours time speaking against 325 new homes to be built as part of Rays Regarde, a four-year-old project slated for construction at the end of Horner Road at Interstate 95.
WOODBRIDGE — Kaiser Permanente got the green light to build a massive new campus in Prince William County.
Occoquan District Supervisor Ruth Anderson reveled after her fellow board members unanimously approved a new “Kaiser South” hub, which will boast a total of 335,000 square feet of office space when complete.
