MANASSAS — Bike racks could be coming to the Manassas Virginia Railway Express station.
Monies from the Interstate 66 E-ZPass Express Lanes’ Commuter Choice program, a total of $55,000, will be used to install bicycle shelters, 10 bike lockers and a repair station at the Manassas train station in Downtown. The Northern Virginia Transportation Commission approved the funds at its meeting Thursday night in Arlington.
MANASSAS — The pilots and their planes are warming up for tomorrow’s annual Manassas Air Show at the Manassas Regional Airport.
This year, the show has a new corporate sponsor and is slated to be bigger than in year’s past.
STAFFORD — At first, Stafford officials thought they couldn’t build a new $71 million courthouse on the same side of the street as the existing facility.
Officials knew they didn’t have enough room to build adequate parking spaces for the building and then began to look at 32 acres of county-owned property across Courthouse Road as a potential site for the new building.
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.
WOODBRIDGE — Full commuter parking lots in western Prince William County won’t be a problem for would-be transit bus riders for much longer.
A new $1.1 million program that will allow bus riders to hail an Uber-like ride from their homes to commuter lots in Haymarket and Gainesville was funded Thursday night. The plan — let users hail the rides from their phones, just as they would any other ride-sharing service.
In this episode of the Potomac Local Podcast, I talk with OmniRide Executive Director Bob Schneider about the transit agency’s new look, how it is overcoming internal struggles in its organization, and a new service that will operate more like Uber than a transit bus.
We recorded this podcast at the OmniRide Transit Center, home of the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission in Woodbridge, on Monday, April 30, 2018.
Thomas Patrick Deakins, 63, passed away Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018. Thomas “Tommy” Deakins was born October 22nd, 1954 in Washington D.C. to Ellsworth Irving Deakins and Frances Rita Deakins (née Byrnes).
Tommy was a master carpenter and renowned project manager who spent over forty years in the construction industry overseeing the completion of countless homes throughout Northern Virginia.
MANASSAS — The proposed rate in the fiscal year 2019 Manassas budget is about 2.6 percent higher than last year.
That means residents and business will most likely be paying more next year once the city council approves the budget May 14.
MANASSAS — As Manassas officials search for a design that could grace the city’s first licenses plate, it’s down to two designs.
City officials took a private vote on the designs they liked and narrowed the designs down to two:
STAFFORD — The Board of Supervisors is prepared to fund a cost-of-living raise for Stafford County teachers — something they’ve wanted for a long time.
“Our schools are hemorrhaging people, from teachers to paraprofessionals, to bus drivers,” said George Washington District Supervisor Tom Coen, who works as a history teacher at Stafford High School.
