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Seen a new restaurant or business going in? Stick your phone out the car window, take a photo, tell us where it is, and send it to 571-989-1695 or [email protected].
Woodbridge’s original hot chicken shop is hanging a new name on the building.
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Prince William County planning staff is recommending approval of Potomac Lofts, a 130-unit condominium project on the vacant Kaiser Permanente clinic at 14139 Potomac Mills Road. The Planning Commission is scheduled to hear rezoning case REZ2025-00030 on Sept. 9.
Officers were called at 6:12 a.m. to a home in the 4600 block of Whitaker Place after a report of a domestic dispute that turned into a stabbing. They found Maliek Raykwon Harrington, 27, of Woodbridge, inside with stab wounds to the upper body and began first aid. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Police said Harrington and a family member got into an altercation that escalated. The accused pulled a knife and stabbed him multiple times in the upper body, according to the department.
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Dominion Energy says there were no major outages in Fairfax or Prince William counties on Friday. A system glitch made it look like thousands of customers were dark, including a false reading of 13,450 out in Fairfax, Woodbridge and Warrenton, according to Northern Virginia spokeswoman Aisha Khan.
“We had no major outages in Fairfax and Prince William Counties yesterday. However, we did have a glitch within the system that made it look like we had large outages in Fairfax, Woodbridge and Warrenton (13,450),” Khan wrote Saturday in response to questions from Potomac Local News.
Town Council honored Officer Justin Hendrickson on Tuesday for stopping at a catastrophic Interstate 95 crash while off duty, helping pull people from a burning vehicle, and giving first aid until fire-rescue crews arrived.
The May 29, 2026, southbound crash in Stafford occurred about 2:30 a.m. and killed five people and injured more than 30. Hendrickson, hired by the Occoquan Police Department in September 2022, was heading home after a shift when he came upon the scene.
Prince William County’s longtime parks director is trading trails, boardwalks, and open space for a desk at City Hall.
Seth Hendler-Voss, who has led Prince William County’s Department of Parks and Recreation since 2017, has been selected as the next city manager of Falls Church. The City Council is scheduled to vote on the appointment Monday evening.
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University officials said the pier will give scientists, students, and research vessels direct access to the Occoquan River after nearly a decade of limited water access. Neighbors and local paddling groups raised concerns about the structure’s length, kayak passage, barge safety, and visual impact during the two-hour town hall at the center, located at 650 Mason Ferry Ave in Woodbridge.
The facility opened in 2017 as a 50,000-square-foot research and education building, but its existing short platform reaches mudflat at low tide. Researchers currently must trailer boats to other docks, limiting class instruction, continuous monitoring, and rapid response work.