Press Release

Thousands of families and business leaders across the Washington D.C. Metro Area will join together in the March of Dimes annual March for Babies – the nation’s oldest walk fundraiser honoring babies born healthy and those that need help to survive and thrive. 

Six March for Babies events are planned in the Greater Washington Area from April 25 – May 3, 2015, in Fairfax County, Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, Prince William County, Southern Maryland and Washington, D.C. To register for an event in your community visit marchforbabies.org.


Obituaries

“Charlotte” Bennett Carter Leith, age 95, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, formerly of Fredericksburg, Virginia, passed away Saturday, April 4, 2015 at Warner Community Hospice Center in Fernandina Beach, Fla.

Charlotte was born on April 28,1919 in Fredericksburg, Virginia to George (Bob) F. Bennett and Charlotte (Lottie) Walker Bennett. After a four year stay in Chicago with the father’s family, she returned to Fredericksburg in 1924 with her mother and baby sister, Lucille.


Press Release

Woodbridge Sr. High School’s Center for Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) invites you to “Be Our Guest!”  Come see the Academy Award winning film come to life on our stage. Performances are April 16th – 19th with Evening and Matinee performances available. 

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is the classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped in a spell placed by an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity. 


News

Manassas has been honored by the Arbor Day Foundation for their urban forest management program, and named a 2014 Tree City USA.

The Arbor Day Foundation partners with the U.S. Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters in order to designate these awards to localities across the country.


News

The eBackpack initiative is part of Manassas Park Public Schools Connects, a initiative where students will be provided with a personal digital device. In time, every student in the school system will be provided with a tablet.

The full roll out of this program is scheduled began in February at Manassas Park High School with the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes.  Over the course of the next few years, the program will be rolled out to the other three schools in the district.