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WOODBRIDGE — A band of volunteers will soon head out on Route 1 to clean it up.
From Keep Prince William Beautiful:
LAKE RIDGE — The Chinn Park Regional Library on Saturday played host to Astronaut, NFL player, and author Leeland Melvin.
Meeting Leland Melvin @PrinceWmLibrary was inspiring! Fantastic speaker – in person and in the series @onestrangerock on Netflix. @Astro_Flow pic.twitter.com/CHLR8Zfnud
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WOODBRIDGE — On April 6 at 2:25 p.m., officers responded to the 13400 block of Jefferson Davis Highway in Woodbridge to investigate an abduction.
The police were contacted and responded to the scene. Patrol officers circulating the area recovered the vehicle and the child within a short time. The child was not injured during the encounter.
WOODBRIDGE — (Press release) The Prince William County Solid Waste Division will host its annual Compost Awareness Day Event on Saturday, April 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be held at the Sean T. Connaughton Community Plaza, located at 1 County Complex Court in Woodbridge.
The event supports International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), the largest most comprehensive education initiative of the compost industry. ICAW promotes composting efforts in the back yard and at large scale commercial composting facilities, like the county’s Balls Ford Road Compost Facility, which is undergoing construction.
The Prince William Committee of 100 is taking another look at the Rural Crescent, a swath of land from Quantico Marine Corps Base to Manassas Battlefield National Park eyed for rural preservation.
The meeting will be held Friday, April 19. A social will be held at 6:30 p.m. and dinner is at 7 o’clock.
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TRIANGLE — A mountain bicycling club is helping bring new trails to Locust Shade Park.
A new trail system to be built at the park will provide off-road connections with nearby Prince William National Forest Park. Funding for the trails is coming from a combination of a $24,000 federal grant. and from funds raised by the organization building the trails, The Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts, Inc., or MORE.