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Wittman, Anderson Will Hold Town Hall in Dale City Tuesday

Published May 28, 2013 at 9:56AM | Updated May 28, 2013 at 10:27AM

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va. 1) talks about keeping maintaining security on Facebook. (Mary Davidson/PotomacLocal.com)

DALE CITY, Va. — Congressman Rob Wittman and Delegate Rich Anderson will hold a town hall today to discuss veterans’ issues.

The meeting will begin at 4 p.m. at the Dale City Volunteer Fire Department station on Hillendale Drive in Dale City. The elected officials are expected to discuss sequestration and potential BRAC movements for 2015 and 2017. The region recently finished a round of BRAC relocations as 6,000 military service men and women and civilians were moved to Quantico, and 20,000 were moved to Ft. Belvoir as part of a BRAC order passed in 2005.

Opposed Va. Leaders without Alternate Plans for Outer Beltway Dubbed ‘Cowards’

By Uriah Kiser

Published May 22, 2013 at 7:30AM | Updated June 6, 2013 at 8:28AM

Prince William County supervisors Maureen Caddigan (Potomac District) and Corey A. Stewart (At-Large). (Uriah Kiser/PotomacLocal.com)

Residents & Elected Officials Oppose Highway Project

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A decision whether or not to endorse an outer beltway in Prince William County will have to wait.

Area Candidates Out of LG Race as Delegates Pick Winners

By Potomac Local News

Published May 18, 2013 at 6:13PM | Updated May 19, 2013 at 10:48AM

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New Prince William Logo Draws Ire from Traditionalist Jenkins

By Uriah Kiser

Published May 16, 2013 at 7:30AM | Updated June 6, 2013 at 8:16AM

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With Few Parks, Opinions Differ on Using $25,000 to Form Recreation Panel in Dumfries

By Potomac Local News

Published May 15, 2013 at 7:30AM

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By URIAH KISER

DUMFRIES, Va. — Just weeks after opening the town’s third public park, Dumfries officials say its time to form a Parks and Recreation Commission.

Connolly Honoring Students Accepted into Service Academies

By Potomac Local News

Published May 10, 2013 at 11:49AM | Updated May 11, 2013 at 2:14AM

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Congressman Gerry Connolly will hold a reception Saturday at the Fairfax County Government Center to recognize 43 students from Fairfax and Prince William in the 11th Congressional District who will be entering the military service academies in the fall.

The 11th Congressional District of Virginia regularly sends one of the largest contingents of high school seniors on to the service academies.

Manassas & Manassas Park Search for New City Managers

By Potomac Local News

Published May 7, 2013 at 11:17AM

Old Town Manassas (Mary Davidson/PotomacLocal.com)

Both Manassas and Manassas Park are searching for new city managers to lead each city, after the men in the current positions announced they would both be departing in June.

Elks Lodge, School No Longer Adequate Polling Places

By Potomac Local News

Published May 6, 2013 at 9:56AM

The Seal of Prince William County, Va.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — County leaders in Prince William want to move voting precincts following last fall’s election that saw record voter turnout.

According to county documents, officials received several complaints from those who work at the Elks Lodge at 14602 Minnieville Road in Woodbridge following last November’s Presidential Election. On Election Day, there were too few parking spaces, and the number of voters in the precinct outweighed the capacity for the building at the lodge.

In Dumfries, Plea for Lower Taxes Leaves Tough Choices

By Potomac Local News

Published May 1, 2013 at 8:42AM | Updated May 1, 2013 at 3:26PM

DUMFIRES, Va. — What officials want: Dumfries’ $4.4 million budget reduced by as much as four cents. While that may not sound like much, it amounts up to a $60,000 cut in town services.

At Tuesday night’s Town Council meeting, leaders tasked Town Manager Daniel Taber coming up with a way to fund the town’s needs, implement tax cuts, and take into consideration council members’ individual wants for the coming fiscal year. He’s to report back to them with a balanced budget in two weeks, detailing what services he intends to cut to make it all work.

World Trade Center Steel on Display Sought without Memorial

By Potomac Local News

Published April 26, 2013 at 11:50AM | Updated April 26, 2013 at 2:54PM

Prince William County firefighter Kenyon Sweet climbed up on a semi truck to have a closer look at one of four large pieces of steel from taken from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. (File photo from 2011, Mary Davidson/PotomacLocal.com)

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — It’s time to take steel from the World Trade Center currently under lock and key and put it on display, said Maureen Caddigan.

The Prince William Potomac District Magisterial Supervisor said she wants to place the steel at a memorial and reflecting pool at the county government center in Woodbridge honoring those who died inside the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The steel would be placed erect into the ground, and it would also honor a volunteer firefighter from from Dumfires and two other county residents killed when the twin towers collapsed.