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WOODBRIDGE — A new $37 million parking garage will go a long way to help relieve a commuter parking shortage along Interstate 95 in Prince William County.

It’s a project the county is moving ahead with after winning federal funds to construct the garage. It just needs to find a spot to build it.


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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.


Obituaries

Mary Ann loved the Lord and her time in church. While living in Virginia, Mary Ann visited Mount Zion Baptist Church in Round Hill, Virginia and Saint Pauls in Richmond, Virgina. She enjoyed, cooking, dancing, drawing and going for ice cream with her son-in-law Ian. Mary’s greatest joy was found in her children and grandchildren.

Mary Ann was survived by her children, Stephen Jones, Christopher Jones, Angela Jones-Holley and Anthony Richard Hogsett, II; her grandchildren, Anthony Richard Hogsett, III, Courtney Marie Hogsett, Garrett Charleston Hogsett and Logan Miller Hogsett; her great granddaughter Arielle Na’Vae Hill; her son-in-law Ian Holley; her daughter–in-law BJ Hogsett; her three sisters Diana Bagley, Frances “Fran” Edmunds and Sylvia Jean Thomas; her brother William Thomas Jr.; her brothers-in-law Alan Edmunds and Earnest White and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.


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RICHMOND – Virginia is one of two states where people convicted of stealing items valued at $200 become felons. But a bipartisan deal to raise the threshold and improve restitution will help some people recover from an otherwise life-altering mistake, a delegate says.

The agreement announced Thursday by Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam and Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox would increase Virginia’s felony theft threshold – the lowest in the nation – to $500 and improve assurances that victims would receive restitution.


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DUMFRIES — Senator Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax, Prince William, Stafford) says his bill is the only piece of legislation addressing coal ash still alive in the General Assembly.

Bill 807 would extend a moratorium on closing the coal ash ponds and would prevent the Department of Environmental Quality from issuing pond closure permits.