Prince William Food Rescue needs Food Rescue Heroes as the program is busy delivering food to both ACTS and SERVE homebound senior citizens. Volunteers are needed county-wide! Home food deliveries are no contact and follow social distancing guidelines.

Prince William Food Rescue is an app-based program enabling volunteers to pick up viable, close to expiration food from supermarkets, restaurants, and food pantries, and then deliver it to a program that can immediately use the food. Just an hour of your time will do much to provide relief for food-insecure families in our community!


Features

October has arrived, and with it, at six-feet-apart, the Friends of the Occoquan conducted their fall cleanup.

A total of 132 masked volunteers arrived on October 10 at Occoquan and the Lake Ridge Park and Marina in Lake Ridge.


News

Theresa Coates Ellis supports the Route 28 bypass, which is an extension of Godwin Drive, which would provide a direct link for drivers who commute from western Prince William County, and points south and west like Stafford and Fauquier counties, respectively, to Route 28 in Fairfax County.

The controversial road would provide a bypass route for congested Route 28 between Manassas and the Bull Run, on the Fairfax County line, and Interstate 66, where high occupancy toll lanes are being added to reduce congestion.


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Stafford school officials are reviewing how much time they have before notifying a parent their child was restrained at school.

The county board will entertain changes to its student restraint and seclusion policy. Under the proposal, a school must report a restraint of a child to a parent “as soon as practical…shall make a reasonable effort that direct contact is made with the parent…”