Potomac Local News has received multiple emails following a newsletter that we sent out yesterday morning.
Sharon Terrill, of Occoquan, writes:
After years of inaction, Prince William County is moving ahead with its plan to construct a new $16.7 million, 28,000 square-foot animal shelter.
A county spokesman tells us:
For the fall of 2020, all Hylton Performing Arts Center performances and events are canceled.
On June 10, the Hylton Performing Arts Center announced its decision to suspend traditional, live, professional public performances, and events inside its Manassas venues.
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Fredericksburg will spend over $500,000 on the Sophia Street Parking garage.
Recently the City Council decided to utilize surplus motor fuel taxes to be used in various transportation projects that have been included in the Fiscal Year 2020 budget. These taxes are collected at the pump and used to fund Virginia Railway Express (VRE) and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC OmniRide), of which Fredricksburg is members of both entities.
A Stafford County sheriff’s deputy found a driver of a truck left the roadway, drove across a yard, and through a chain-link fence before becoming stuck, the sheriff’s office says.
Here’s the blotter from the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office:
On Tuesday, June 16, the Dumfries Town Council appointed Gary West to the Planning Commission and Lawrence Nickerson to the Architectural Review Board.
West worked on the Planning Commission before resigning in February due to an upcoming move.
Stafford County has enabled all of its students to have an electronic device for the next school year.
On June 16, the Stafford County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the purchase of 9,000 Chromebooks for students, a motion that has been in the works for months. Funding for the $1.1 million purchase will likely come from the CARES Act.
A Stafford man hit it big with the Virginia Lottery.
The Virginia Lottery tells us:
Manassas public works crews spent part of their day yesterday scrubbing graffiti from an exterior wall at the city’s downtown parking garage.
Councilwoman Theresa Coates Ellis posted photos of the graffiti to her Facebook page: