Event

Join Cruise Planners Beth Borrego and Rod Rodriguez for the World of Travel Show 2027 on Saturday, February 6, 2027, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in The BlackBox at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown.

Meet representatives from 13 respected travel brands covering family and adults-only cruises, premium and luxury ocean voyages, European river cruises, expedition and Galápagos adventures, small-ship sailing, guided land tours, and customized vacations.


News

The Manassas City Council voted unanimously on Monday night to approve an agreement with the Prince William Board of County Supervisors for library services. 

The agreement will now head to the Board of County Supervisors on June 16. If signed, it would provide a library branch, run by the Prince William Library System, in Manassas at 10104 Dumfries Road in the Wellington shopping center.


News

Students in Stafford County middle and high schools may no longer be allowed to use cell phones in class for instructional purposes.

At the county’s June 9 school board meeting, the board discussed exhibits one and two of Regulation 2401, which would “eliminate the use of cell phones in the classroom for instructional purposes,” according to school board documentation.


Prince William

Wayne A. Murray, 51, of Triangle, Va. died at the scene of a fatal car crash that occurred at 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 7 on the main lines of Interstate 395 South just south of Duke Street Alexandria.

According to a press release from the Virginia State Police (VSP), Murray who drove a 1997 Ford Ranger pickup truck was traveling south on I-395 through a work zone when it entered a closed lane. The lane in question was inside the active work zone and struck a 2009 Mack truck traveling north in that same lane. The Mack truck was part of the work zone crew. Murray was wearing a seatbelt.


News

School may be out of session, but the fourth round of student representatives to the Prince William County School Board have been announced.

Rising seniors Ben Kim of Stonewall Jackson High School and Caroline Silvera of C.D. Hylton Senior High School have been chosen to serve as co-student representatives to the school board. Rising senior Ashley Menjivar of Woodbridge High School was additionally chosen as an alternate student representative. These three students were chosen out of a list of twenty-one finalists.