DUMFRIES, Va. — When Angela Armstrong was standing in a checkout line at a Walmart store in Dumfries she never expected this.

After a long day at her government job in Arlington, following a trip to church, and after shopping with her husband and three cranky children for last-minute Christmas gifts, the Triangle wife, mother of five, and new grandmother, was picked to receive a free holiday turkey.


Fulton Bank in Manassas gifted $1,000 to the Flory Small Business Center in Prince William County.

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Dale City worst commute in the country, study says — Next door communities Dale City and Woodbridge in eastern Prince William County hold the dubious distinction of having the worst commute in America, according to a study. [WJLA]

Top College Football Recruit Da’Shawn Hand Copes With Recruitment — 2013 in Review — Da’Shawn Hand, a rising senior playing defensive end for the Woodbridge Senior High School Vikings, is widely regarded as the top prospect in all of high school football in 2014. [Patch]


Last week I wrote a post entitled: Home Values Rebounding, Prince William Needs Housing Solutions. Someone left me a thoughtful comment that included this phrase:

“Those of us in older neighborhoods who were comfortable and safe in our homes for decades and paid mortgage on time had nothing whatsoever to do with the bad mortgage/foreclosure, etc. mess yet our home values have suffered greatly because of the actions of others.”


Very few young people in their early 20s must go through the pain of losing their mother and father.

But that’s what Mary C. Rosenthal did when she was just 22 years old, a week before her first wedding anniversary — she buried her mother after a long bout with Metastatic lung cancer. A year later, she buried her father. Both smokers and died of cancer.


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