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Louise G. Velasquez of Manassas passed away on September 8, 2019, at home surrounded by her family. Born September 2, 1931, in Flint Hill, Virginia. She was preceded in death by her parents Walter and Addie Grimsley, her brother Walter Grimsley, Jr. and sister Eleanor Moore. She is survived by her husband of sixty-nine years, Manuel L. Velasquez also of Manassas, son John Walter Velasquez of Clewiston, Florida, and sister Lana Frye of Towson, Maryland.
Louise graduated from Marshall High School in Marshall, Virginia. Upon graduation from high school, she enlisted in the army and served for two years in the Women’s Army Corps and attained the rank of Corporal. During her service in the military, Louise met and married Manuel L. Velasquez at Fort Myer, Virginia in 1951.
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.
That partnership, between Fredericksburg City, Stafford, and Spotsylvania counties, is meant to pool the resources of each jurisdiction, to get more people to travel to the region, and bring their business events to hotels and the convention center.
In place since 1994, each jurisdiction spends $117,000 a year on the regional tourism effort. But the partnership expires on June 30, 2020, and that has local leaders in Stafford asking if they should go it alone when trying to lure tourists to breweries, wineries, and Ferry Farm, George Washington’s boyhood home on the Rappahannock River.
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STAFFORD COUNTY — (Sheriff’s Department Press Release) A suspect was taken into custody on Thursday morning by deputies with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office for assaulting a female subject with a weapon.
On September 12, 2019, at approximately 5:22 a.m., Deputy Aubrecht was parked in the area of 2650 Jefferson Davis Highway when he was flagged down by a woman. She was distraught and told the deputy she was involved in a domestic situation at her residence located on Tolbelt Court.
It’s called a Purchase of Development Rights Program (PDR) where the government buys a farmer’s land, then leaves it in the hands of the farmer who can continue to use it for agriculture, but can never build on it, or sell it to anyone else.
A newly proposed resolution from Prince William County School Board members Alyson Satterwhite and Willie Deutsch rules out four of six viable alternatives to developing the Rural Crescent, the last remaining, largely rural, crescent-shaped tract of land from Quantico Marine Corps Base to Manassas National Battlefield Park.
WOODBRIDGE – (Press Release) OmniRide will offer free rides on all buses on Friday, September 20, 2019 to celebrate Virginia’s annual Try Transit Week – an educational event designed to encourage people to try a bus, commuter rail, ferry or vanpool rather than driving alone.
Try Transit Week is set for September 16-20, 2019 and is sponsored by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT).
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A new policy from Schools Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner means they can’t take pictures of athletes during school sporting events.
Professional photographers Sandie Waters and Jen Mulenbruck are the inferred subjects of the new policy. The duo had been hired to take photos of athletics teams at Stafford and Colonial Forge high schools, respectively. They’ve been shooting team photos since 2013.