Potomac Local News

Published December 16, 2018 at 4:12PM

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — (Press Release) On Tuesday, December 11, Freestate Farms LLC, an organic waste recycling company based in Northern Virginia, broke ground to begin construction of its new advanced aerobic composting system at the Prince William County Balls Ford Road Composting Facility in Manassas.

Coles District Supervisor Martin E. Nohe (Prince William County Board), County Executive Christopher E. Martino, and members of the County’s Solid Waste Division lent a hand to turn the first shovelfuls of dirt for the project.

Man sentenced for distributing fentanyl causing serious injury

By Potomac Local News

Published December 16, 2018 at 4:11PM

A Dumfries man was sentenced today to over 21 years in prison for distribution of fentanyl causing serious bodily harm.

Originals

Here are the Prince William middle and high school buildings that need renewal now

By Uriah Kiser

Published December 16, 2018 at 1:27PM | Updated December 17, 2018 at 9:02AM

People are talking about the disparity between the old and new school buildings.

In eastern Prince William County and near Manassas, the county school division has aging middle and high schools that opened more than 40 years ago. In the county’s western subdivisions, the schools are newer.

Obituaries

Wanda Wall Lawson

By Potomac Local News

Published December 16, 2018 at 1:26PM

Mrs. Wanda Wall Lawson went to be with her Lord on December 15, 2018. She was a resident of Massanutten, VA for the past 13 years. Formerly a resident of Woodbridge, Va. for over 40 years. Wanda was born December 16, 1923 in Princeton, WVa. to Mr. and Mrs. John Clarence Wall.

Mrs. Lawson was preceded in death by her husband of over 70 years, Mr. James E. Lawson, Sr. Her sister Violet Wall Gillock and both of her brothers Clayton Shelby Wall and Bill Clarence Wall.

Systems engineer, Occoquan resident killed in plane crash

By Uriah Kiser

Published December 15, 2018 at 10:00AM | Updated December 17, 2018 at 9:02AM

A systems engineer from Occoquan was killed Friday in a plane crash.

Leonardo Ospina-Villada died after his small fixed-wing, single-engine plane crashed in Spotsylvania County at 7:40 a.m. Ospina-Villanda had just taken off from Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg.

News

Charity event to honor longtime Prince William Medical Center doctor

By Potomac Local News

Published December 14, 2018 at 11:13AM

MANASSAS — A longtime Manassas doctor will be remembered Sunday.

John Gonzalez Memorial Foundation will host its first annual event called Operation JOHN (Joy Of Holidays Never-ending) at Novant Prince William Hospital from 9 a.m. to noon.

News

Small plane crashes after leaving Shannon Airport

By Potomac Local News

Published December 14, 2018 at 10:55AM

FREDERICKSBURG — A small plane crashed this morning after taking off from Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg.

At 7:45 a.m. Friday (, Virginia State Police responded to a report of a crashed plane in Spotsylvania County.

Prince William

Lake Montclair, dam restored to meet new state flood standards

By Olivia Aveni Briscoe

Published December 14, 2018 at 10:48AM | Updated January 22, 2019 at 11:13PM

A view of a drained Lake Montclair from Dolphin Beach in April 2018.

If Montclair has a 100-year storm, the spillway will be able to accommodate it.

Lake Montclair was lowered to just 20 feet this past summer, leaving residents who are used to summer swimming and boating on high and dry.

‘Mike’ the grinch scamming people at Stafford Marketplace

By Potomac Local News

Published December 14, 2018 at 10:26AM

NORTH STAFFORD — Someone hanging out at Stafford Marketplace thought he had landed a great job.

In the end, he was taken for a ride. A Stafford sheriff’s office spokeswoman says the victim allowed the suspect to write a check for $2,000 for supplies at a Lowes store at the North Stafford shopping center.