By JESSICA WILDE
Capital News Service

MCDANIEL, Md. – A warmer, drier year has been good for oysters, both natural and planted, in the Eastern Shore’s Harris Creek, a tributary of the Choptank River and site of the first tributary-wide restoration effort by the Oyster Recovery Partnership.


Businesses in Prince William County are reminded to complete and file an annual recycling report with the Department of Public Works by February 28, 2013.

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The big pile of rubble that has been sitting at Town Center at Aquia for six or seven years now is beginning to get on peoples’ nerves.

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By URIAH KISER

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Potomac Middle School and its panthers has done something it has never done before: achieve a ranking of School of Excellence in Prince William County.


STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Efforts to clear the way for an improved intersection at U.S. 1 and Va. 218 in Falmouth began this week.

The work aims to reduce traffic congestion at the busy intersection outside Fredericksburg, but longtime businesses on the corner will be lost to the project.


STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Five people now face charges in connection with a shooting in North Stafford.

The dragnet for the suspects spanned from Manassas, Stafford, and Prince William, and included the help of the ATF and police departments from the respective jurisdictions.


Outside Old Town: What’s Happening Around Manassas 

By CINDY BROOKSHIRE
For Potomac Local News


Planners in Stafford County don’t like to use the word “urban” in their comprehensive development plan, and instead want to replace it with “targeted.”

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