Students in Prince William County Public Schools have been back to learning for about a month.
Special education students are learning in classrooms, while the remainder of the school division’s 92,000 students has been attending classes online since the first day of school on September 8.
Tuesday will be sunny and warm, with a light breeze.
Central Rappahannock Regional Library will open branches to the public for 45-minute appointments starting Monday, October 12.
The new Library Express service is aimed at expanding branch access while prioritizing customer and staff safety. Customers will be able to make appointments to browse the collection; check out materials; use computers to print, copy, scan, and fax; and checkout materials. Beginning Monday, October 12, customers will also be able to return items to the library book drops.
Stafford sheriff’s deputies were called to a report of an assault on Ballantrae Lane just off Hope Road on Sunday, October 4 at 9:02 p.m.
Deputy R.M. Connelly said the suspect was inside of a car when arrived, and was trying to flee the scene. The deputy was able to stop the suspect, according to a Stafford sheriff’s office spokeswoman.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Dunkin Donuts store at 305 Garrisonville Raod at 2:10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, for a disturbance.
A video, which contains profanity, of the incident posted to YouTube shows a woman standing in the lobby of the restaurant yelling at store employees.
Good Morning – Prince William Food Rescue (PWFR) needs Food Rescue Heroes as the program is super busy delivering food to both ACTS and SERVE homebound clients.
Volunteers in the Manassas/Gainesville/Haymarket area are desperately needed. Home food deliveries are no contact and follow social distancing guidelines. PWFR is an app-based program enabling volunteers to pick up viable, close to expiration food from supermarkets, restaurants, food pantries, etc., 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. More info on PWFR may be found at pwfoodrescue.org.
Here are this week’s traffic hotspots in the Stafford County and Fredericksburg Area courtesy of the Virginia Department of Transportation.
I-95 Northbound
The University of Mary Washington and Germanna Community College pressed Senator Mark Warner on Thursday for more federal funding to help students who don’t have access to the internet and computers to continue online learning.
The colleges are asking for more federal funding as Germanna, in particular, had a 12% increase in enrollment this semester and expressed a need for additional funds to provide students with computers. Both intuitions pivoted to online learning in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and expressed concern about students who want to attend their schools but cannot due to a lack of computer equipment.
