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Marine Corps cancels Historic Half, adds virtual option

By Olivia Aveni Briscoe
The Marine Corps Marathon 17.75K run in Prince William Forest Park [Photo: Marine Corps Marathon]

The Marine Corps Marathon Organization (MCMO) announced that they are cancelling their Historic Half Weekend events scheduled for May in Fredericksburg following the statewide Stay at Home order issued by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, but they are providing other ways for runners to participate while socially distancing.

According to a press release from the Marine Corps Marathon Organization (MCMO), the MCMO has announced that the 2020 Marine Corps Historic Half Weekend events, scheduled for Friday, May 15 through Sunday, May 17 have been cancelled to support the wellbeing of the running community, residents, Marines and partners.

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Tangs posts video on how to make facemasks

By Uriah Kiser

Tang’s Alterations in Manassas continues to make facemasks for first responders on the frontlines fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

Owners Xiao-Yin and Kenny Loveless told Potomac Local News they’ve made about 500 masks since they began making them March 25. Many of them have been donated to area emergency crews, and to the Novant/UVA Prince William Medical Center across the street from their storefront in Canterbury Village Shopping Center in Manassas.

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Obituaries

Chad Michael Bailey

By Press Release

Chad Michael Bailey, age 42, passed away suddenly on March 25, 2020 in Annandale, Virginia.  He was born in Cooperstown, New York on September 14, 1977 and was a graduate of George Mason High School in Falls Church, Virginia.  Chad leaves behind to cherish his memory his beloved daughter Logan Kalyce Herrin and son Michael Sean Bailey; his mother Lisa Doyle; his sister Victoria Cox and husband Chad Cox; his brothers Jordan Doyle and Ryan Bailey; his grandmother Ann Kocuba and husband Stephen; his grandmother Marjorie Ranger; his uncle Todd Ranger; his aunt Kelley Tripple and cousins Jacob Tripple and Andrew Tripple; his nephews Chad Cox, Jr. and Wyatt Cox; his great-uncle Donald Ranger; and his close friends Jonathan J. Evans, Bernie Hernandez, Jason Bell (Bizzy), and Mirella Ruiz and husband Rene Ruiz.

Chad is preceded in death by his father Kenneth Bailey; his grandfather Robert Ranger; his uncle John Brooks; and close friend Joel Wilson.

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Cyd Rowley Open Studio Weekend

Cyd Rowley Studio

10449 Metropolitan Ave

Kensington, Maryland 20895

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Join me during this National Craft Open Studios weekend, a celebration of Amrican craft organized by the American Craft Council (ACC). Come visit my studio July 18-19th, 11am-5pm at 10449 Metropolitan Ave, Kensington, MD. Please drop in, see how my work is created, tour my studio and try your hand at hammering some metal.

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Prince William outlines coronavirus doomsday plan, names secondary hospital sites

By Uriah Kiser
Prince William County Executive Christopher Martino

In preparing for the worst affects the coronavirus could have on the region, Prince William County Executive Director Christopher Martino on Tuesday outlined a three-phase plan to deal with the expected surge patients.

First, the hospitals will take in an increasing number of patients afflicted with the disease until they are full.

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New bridge abutments in place as Route 1 widening project continues in Woodbridge

By Uriah Kiser
Photo: VDOT

The effort to widen Route 1 in Woodbridge continues despite the global coronavirus pandemic.

The Virginia Department of Transportation reports that concrete abutments are in place or a new bridge that will carry Route 1 traffic over the Maurmsco Creek.

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Items at gas station smashed; man, 19 charged

By Uriah Kiser

Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Sunoco gas station Someone after someone began smashing the merchandise.

Authorities were called at 1:46 p.m. Monday, March 30, 2020, to 488 Garrisonville Road in North Stafford. The owner of the gas station told them that after the man ransacked the place, he sped away in an older model white sedan, according to Stafford sheriff’s spokeswoman Amanda Vicinanzo.

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