A few miles from a busy highway in Northern Virginia and just off the banks of a Potomac River tributary is one of the biggest coal ash ponds in the region.
On Saturday, April 9, 2016 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. (rain date April 23, 2016), Prince William Trails and Streams Coalition (PWTSC), a 501(c)3 organization, is conducting its 7th annual clean-up of the upper Occoquan River, from nine different sites along 25+ miles of the Occoquan River.
The clean-up ranges from Cedar Run/Broad Run, through Lake Jackson, and from the base of Lake Jackson Dam to Hooes Run (south of Lake Ridge Marina). This cleanup is part of the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s (www.fergusonfoundation.org) Potomac River Watershed Cleanup. Friends of the Occoquan (www.friendsoftheoccoquan.org) will also be holding a cleanup at different shoreline parks along the Occoquan River on April 16, 2016.
Junior Library Guild (JLG) recently awarded the Sister Sally Daly Grant to Mary Gildersleeve, Director of Library Services for Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School near Dumfries, Virginia, to attend her first Catholic Library Association(CLA) conference this March.
The Catholic Library Association together with Junior Library Guild established a $1,500 grant in 2007 in memory of Sally Daly, SSJ, an ardent supporter of recruiting new members to CLA and its Children’s Library Services Section.
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Justin Wilk, the school board member who proposed the idea, said his wife found a Confederate flag scrawled with the words “nigger lover” stuffed in the family’s home mailbox Friday.
From the Manassas City Police blotter: (more…)
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The City of Manassas held it’s 17th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 12.
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Faculty and staff at Mills E. Godwin Middle School aren’t happy about a plan to change the school’s name. (more…)
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Good morning -The Rainbow Therapeutic Riding Program is looking for volunteers for their summer camps beginning in June through mid-August. (more…)