Press Release

As part of its mission to advance quality early learning initiatives for the region’s young children, Smart Beginnings Greater Prince William (SBGPW) partners with business leaders, health professionals, schools, childcare providers and other community stakeholders to help young children start school healthy and ready to learn.

Early literacy is a key component of school readiness and several programs are currently underway in the region, including “Books 4 Babies” and “Reach Out and Read.” Books 4 Babies, a program of SBGPW, provides many families with their baby’s first book as a way to encourage parents to read to their young children from Day One. Over 1,900 books and other educational materials, such as a bookmark about a baby’s brain development and a wheel describing developmental milestones from birth to age five, have been distributed to newborns at Novant Health Prince William Medical Center since October 2013.

On Saturday, October 24th from 6 PM-9 PM, the Brandy Station Foundation presents the “Spirits of the Graffiti House” at the Graffiti House, 19484 Brandy Road, Brandy Station, VA 22714.

Featured events for this free family event include ghost stories in rooms with Civil War graffiti; a fortune teller; a campfire with marshmallows, and the continuous screening of the video produced by “The R.I.P. Files” from their Graffiti House investigation.

Join Historic Dumfries for a “Spirited” Ghost Walk and Haunted Museum Overnight “Lock-In” Are you are brave enough?

Take a walking tour through Dumfries Haunted Heights, visit Weems-Botts — listed as the second most haunted site in Virginia by the Fredericksburg Star, and featured on “My Ghost Story” in the Spring and Summer of 2013, and on CBS, “Spirited History.”

The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry is hosting its fifth annual “Haunt Away Hunger” Casino Night on Friday, October 30, 2015.

This prize packed event, the largest single fund raiser for the Food Pantry, will be held at the Evergreen Country Club located at 15900 Berkeley Drive, Haymarket, Virginia. The cost to attend is $60 per person and includes drink tickets, elegant hors d oeuvres, casino cash and plenty of fun.

On September 26, hundreds of volunteers across our local communities gathered to help their neighbors in a Day To Serve.

But planning for the service had begun months earlier and involved intense coordination. Ken and Fran Gardner of Gainesville were project managers for the 11 area LDS congregations.

The Prince William County Service Authority is proud to announce that Moody’s has raised the utility’s credit rating for outstanding revenue bonds from Aa1 to Aaa. [Read more]

Tim Singstock, candidate for Chairman – At Large of the Prince William County School Board has collected numerous bi-partisan and community endorsements since beginning his campaign in December 2014. These Prince William community leaders are supporting Tim Singstock for School Board Chairman-At Large in the November 3rd General Election:

U.S. Congressman Rob Wittman (1st CD)

Every Year on the second Saturday of December, Wreaths Across America performs a ceremony to pay tribute to our Fallen Veterans by placing hand made wreaths from Maine on the veterans grave sites.

This year the ceremony will be on December 12 at noon at Oak Hill cemetery located at 1902 Plank Road Fredericksburg.