News

If the Mathis Avenue corridor is going to change, so may traffic patterns need to change on Route 28.

Manassas officials are have dusted off the more than a decade old Mathis Avenue Sector Plan and are starting to make streetscape improvements in the neighborhood that mirror similar efforts in the city’s downtown.


Originals

The Department of Homeland Security came to Gainesville to help hotel employees learn how to recognize potential sex trafficking victims.

They gathered at a Hampton Inn as part of DHS’ Blue Campaign, ‘the unified voice for DHS’ efforts to combat human trafficking which involves law enforcement, government, non-governmental, and private organizations to protect the basic right of freedom and bring those who exploit human lives to justice.”


Event

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.


News

It’s been two years since the Stafford Board of Supervisors approved a lifetime dog license, meaning that dog owners would now only need to purchase the license once vs. an annual option, or what had been a more popular three-year license.

Starting Nov. 1, 2017, the county began offering the lifetime license and since then has issued 9,375-lifetime licenses, according to Stafford County Treasurer Laura Rudy.  Now it’s the only type of dog license it issues.


News

Manassas leaders are looking at the Mathis Avenue corridor as the city’s next big activity center.

Currently home to a strip shopping mall, the city is picturing what that part of town, just outside downtown, might look like in the next 20 years.