PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va .– Two major thoroughfares inside Manassas National Battlefield Park, Va. 234 and U.S. 29, will not close until a bypass road around the hallowed ground is built.
That was a resolution first passed by Prince William County officials in the middle portion of the past decade and reaffirmed Tuesday afternoon by the sitting Board of County Supervisors in 6-2 vote.
Northern Virginia based real estate title company Advanced Title & Settlement, LLC has announced today their local nonprofit benefactors for their Advance My Community Give Back program. With offices in Manassas, Fairfax, Towson, Md. and Cape Coral, Fla., corporate philanthropy plays an integral part in their corporate culture.
Advanced Title & Settlement Co-Owner Heather Mergler stays involved in her community as a member of Prince William County Realtor Association (PWAR), Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR), Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE), and serves as a Board of Director for the Prince William County/Manassas Boys & Girls Club.
WOODBRIDGE, Va.– A man was arrested for malicious wounding after he repeatedly struck woman in the face, police report.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Ron Charest, of Woodbridge, was working at the Navy Yard when 12 innocent people were shot and killed on Monday.
After slugging into work, the day started like any other workday — a scheduled 8 a.m. morning meeting in the building next door to building 197 where the shootings took place, and them more phone conferences scheduled starting at 9 a.m. back in his office building nearby at the Navy Yard.
More than 1,000 drivers on Virginia highways were cited for speeding over the weekend.
Virginia State Police fanned out across Interstates 95, 81, 85, and 64 for a special “Operation Air, Land, and Speed” enforcement.
Kathleen Gaarde, 62, lived near the Prince William County Government Center and worked at Washington’s Navy Yard. She was one of 13 victims who died in Monday’s massacre shot and killed at the Navy’s nerve center complex.
The Washington Post profiled Gaarde:
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Paving work at Staffordboro Boulevard in North Stafford is scheduled to take place over the next two weekends.
It’s part of a $12.9 million project to improve the intersection of the road with Va. 610, and to add an additional 1,000 commuter parking spaces at the Staffordboro commuter lot.
MANASSAS, Va. — Novant Health today launched Bright Ideas in Women’s Wellness, an online crowdsourcing platform for innovative ideas, as a new approach to solving the toughest healthcare issues facing women and their families.
The challenge is being conducting across the Novant Health system in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The platform aims to unite and energize communities to share ideas and develop solutions to Novant Health challenge questions. Communities can collaborate to move the most innovative ideas forward and eventually put them into action. For this challenge, the topic question is:
