The city’s capital improvement budget includes several projects, including a new $3.9 million addition to the city’s museum, a $4.4 million expansion of Dean Park, adding new fields and amenities, more than $7 million for Anaburg Manor, and the recently acquired mansion turned park near the city’s downtown.
The city is also working to replace Dean Elementary School at an estimated $62 million cost. Officials have been working since 2014 on finding a site on which to build the new school.
The Prince William County Planning Commission will review the request to rezone 16 acres from B-1, General Business, to PMR, Planned Mixed Residential, with associated development waivers and modifications, including a signage modification, to allow up to 355 apartments.
The property sits next to a Sheetz gas station at Caton Hill Road and Killarney Drive. The area is already in the headlines after the Washington Commanders expressed interest in building a new stadium and practice facility on top of two existing commuter lots just off Telegraph Road.
A ribbon-cutting will be held for a $1.2 million park in Lake Ridge on Saturday, June 4, at 11 a.m.
From 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., the park will have fitness demonstrations and giveaways.
On Wednesday, June 1 at 10:38 a.m., officers went to the 12500 block of Colebrook Court in Lake Ridge after a 3-year-old child was found playing on a street.
A resident reported to police that when they saw a 3-year-old boy, and they brought the boy to the sidewalk where. The child pointed at a nearby house. The Good Samaritan went to the door and there was no answer at the home. He then called the police.
Area religious leaders and elected officials praised a move to bring a new crisis receiving center to Prince William County.
When the center eventually opens sometime next year, police will bring patients with a temporary mental illness to the center for treatment. The center will provide 23-hour monitoring for those in the middle of a mental health crisis.
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By Ian Lovejoy
President Biden’s federal asset tax, which is being sold as a tax on billionaires, could actually be imposed on millions of hardworking Americans, evolving to hit everyone who has a job or owns some form of assets.
Kenny G will take the center field in Fredericksburg.
The jazz saxophonist best known for his hits “Songbird” and “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme song of Titanic, is one of the best-selling artists of all time with over 75 million records sold.
The 27th Annual Manassas Heritage Railway Festival returns to Manassas this weekend.
The event will occur from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. in Downtown Manassas. The event is a family-friendly celebration of rich railroad history and features model train displays, train memorabilia, and specialty vendors.
