Republicans on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors worked late into the night to convince Democrats to vote against an asphalt plant that would be built on 22 acres of land next to the Blackburn residential neighborhood.
“Don’t support big business,” Brentsville District Supervisor Jeanine Lawson said. “The Democrats up here say they want to work with us, but they continue to shove these projects down our throats.”
Prince William County Public Schools now has $20 million federal CARES Act funding.
The award was made by the Board of County Supervisors during its Tuesday meeting. The new money is in addition to $5 million that supervisors have already given to the school division since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The night before the first day of school is usually an exciting and sleepless one for me.
I’m pondering what I’m going to wear, what new friends I might make, and dreading or looking forward to the teachers I have. This virtual school year, however, didn’t give me that same feeling. In my mind, there wasn’t exactly anything to look forward too: I couldn’t interact with my classmates, I couldn’t have conversations with my favorite teachers, and I couldn’t have the often romanticized senior year everyone talks about. So I went to bed at a reasonable time, more filled with curiosity than anything else.
Plans for a four-lane bypass, an extension of Godwin Drive, were restored at Tuesday’s Prince William Board of County Supervisors meeting.
Supervisors voted along party lines 5-3 to overturn a unanimous vote the Board made a month ago and chose to proceed with designing a four-lane extension of Godwin Drive from Novant/UVA Health Prince William Medical Center in Manassas to the intersection of Route 28 and Compton Road in Fairfax County.
Texas Roadhouse, the Kentucky-based steakhouse chain will soon be opening a new location in Woodbridge.
Construction is currently in progress at the Potomac Festival shopping center, located at 14389 Potomac Mills Road at the Potomac Festival shopping center in Woodbridge.
Wednesday will be cloudy, with thunderstorms possible in the afternoon.
First Metro, and now OmniRide will allow riders to pay with Apple Pay using their iPhones.
From OmniRide:
Transportation crews found problems on a two-lane bridge over the Aquia Creek on Rock Hill Chruch Road in Stafford County.
Now, drivers will be detoured around the bridge while repairs are made.
