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Manassas Park sees a new library, and now a new parking garage for the city’s envisioned downtown development.

A new garage would provide at least 500 more parking spaces needed at the Manassas Park VRE station. The new spaces would be in addition to the 600 spaces already in use at the station on weekdays.


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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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A student at Mountain View High School faces charges after a loaded weapon was found on campus.

Deputies were called to the school at 2135 Mountain View Road in Stafford County at 11:20 a.m. They found a loaded 40 caliber Taurus handgun inside a gym locker. A School Resource Officer received information that a 14- year-old student had a gun in the school, the sheriff’s office tells Potomac Local News.


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Morning commuters who use back roads to get from Prince William County to Fairfax County could see some road work this week.

Evans Ford Road, between Yates Ford Road and Signal Hill Road, will be closed to through traffic, as long as the weather permits, from 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 10 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 12.