Two boys, one 15 and the other 17, face charges after a brazen armed robbery and abduction attempt on Route 1 at Wayside Drive, near a Walmart outside Dumfries.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the Major League Baseball color line.
Win Germanna Community College – Fredericksburg Nationals Scholarships by entering the college’s annual Jackie Robinson Essay Contest open to juniors and seniors at high schools in Germanna’s service region (Fredericksburg City, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Culpeper, Orange, King George, Madison, and Caroline counties).
The Workhouse Arts Center announces BrewWorks, an outdoor beer, wine, and spirit tastings festival, on May 20.
In addition to sampling microbrews, wine, and spirits, participants can enjoy food and lawn games while listening to local bands throughout the day.
The data center would sit on some of the more than 800 acres earmarked by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, approved last year, for Prince William Digital Gateway.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, at Bull Run Middle School, 6308 Catharpin Road, near Gainesville.
Student members of the Stafford Middle School LEOs stuffed more than 400 eggs for an egg hunt held at the Thurman Brisbane Center, a homeless shelter in Fredericksburg, on Saturday, April 8, 2023.
The Aquia Evening Lions Club provided the candy and sponsored the club.
Local commuters who use OmniRide buses to get to Washington, D.C., the Pentagon and Tysons Corner will see their fares rise from $6.90 to $9 each way on July 1, as part of an effort to raise more revenue for the bus system, which is pressed by lower commuter ridership and rising costs. (more…)
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Two students at Independence Nontraditional School in Prince William County now work for the school division as part of the school’s workforce education program.
In the coming weeks, nine more will join them, working in the school division’s facilities department, which oversees construction. The school division’s announcement comes during April, Workplace Readiness Month.
(The Center Square) – Maryland is advancing discussions on potential plans to expand MARC commuter rail service into Delaware and Virginia – a move officials hope will expand access for transit riders across state lines.
The Maryland Department of Transportation has signed framework agreements with the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority and Delaware Transit Corp. for potential MARC Train Service expansions, Gov. Wes Moore announced Thursday. The possible future expansions could extend MARC service to Newark, Delaware, and to Alexandria, Virginia.
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Amazon Web Services and Prince William County Public Schools officials gathered to celebrate the first Think Big Space at River Oaks Elementary School, 16950 McGuffeys Trail in Woodbridge.
The company held the event on Thursday, April 13, 2023. Since the space — two brightly colored classrooms outfitted with technology — opened in 2019, 60 more have opened worldwide.