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.
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By URIAH KISER
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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By URIAH KISER
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Prince William County employees will keep their Columbus Day holiday, but 11 county employees who work to keep drug addicts off the streets will be out of a job.