Business

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A Prince William County firm is leading the way on the cybersecurity battlefield. It’s ammunition — a mastery in sensory artificial intelligence.

Manny Rivera founded RiVidium in 2008 and the company is at the forefront not only cybersecurity but also sensor security, developing secured communications with a deployed series of small sensors.


Event

StoryWorx: Workhouse's First Ever FREE Book Festival
Sat, Nov 14 | 11 a.m.–5 p.m. | Lorton, VA

Meet bestselling authors Angie Kim (Happiness Falls), 4× NFL Pro Bowler Ken Harvey (first-ever dramatic reading), and Emmy-winning WUSA9 anchor Wisdom Martin, plus Marcie Atkins, Omar Abed, Ellen R.B. Smith, and more for panels, signings, poetry, and workshops. Kids' Corner features author readings, crafts, and storytime. Browse the artisan market, catch a live Upstart Crow podcast, and explore the Workhouse galleries and artist studios—all part of Second Saturday.


Prince William

MANASSAS — When Sheriff Glendell Hill was stationed at Vint Hill working in the Army Security Agency in the late 1960s, he lived in Manassas where a Confederate Battle Flag waived in the air.

When the left the service, he stayed in Manassas despite the fact he was a black man in a then-segregated southern town.


Prince William

WOODBRIDGE — In 2008, a proposed development called Prince William Overlook failed to win the hearts and minds of county leaders, and they voted down a request to rezone 10 acres of the land for a new housing development.

On Tuesday, that same Prince William County Board of Supervisors will have before it an even larger housing project that would be built on the same site, an old debris landfill that sits at the end of Horner Road, abutting Interstate 95 in Woodbridge. In the early 1990s, before the construction of Prince William Parkway, this stretch of Horner Road was the main thoroughfare to cross the interstate highway.


News

STAFFORD — The proposed plans to move children to new Stafford County elementary schools is ready for prime time.

The Stafford County School Board held two public hearings regarding the nine-month-long redistricting process.