The effort to bring gambling to Dumfries is dead in the water.
The Town Council voted 4-3 to deny a conditional use permit that would have allowed an 18,000 square-foot Rosie’s Gaming Emporium, an off-track pari-mutuel betting parlor, in the Triangle Shopping Center at the corner of Route 1 and Graham Park Road.
After much public outcry and debate, Harry Wiggins won a political appointment to the Prince William County Service Authority.
Supervisors voted 6-2 Tuesday to appoint the controversial, former county Democratic Party Chairman as the at-large member of the county’s water and sewer authority. The appointment to the high-profile, independent, non-political commission comes after Wiggins was fined by the Virginia State Board of Elections in 2018 after he founded a political action committee called Republicans for Stanley Bender, and then failing to register it with the state as required by law.
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.
Volunteers are needed to serve on the Prince William County Public Schools attendance area boundary planning committee.
?The Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue recently held the official ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the new Coles District Fire and Rescue Station 6.
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