Updated Sept. 10, 2026: Chelsea Quintern wrote Potomac Local on Thursday evening to correct two name spellings, note that her daughter Rylee was also at the meeting, and report that Joshua’s post-meeting scan showed no evidence of disease.

Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega’s chief of staff, Chelsea Quintern, returned to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors dais on Sept. 1 with her son Joshua beside her as the Board marked Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Their daughter, Rylee, was also present. Quintern later said Rylee has not had cancer but “experienced a major change in her life because of childhood cancer, too.”


The Prince William Board of County Supervisors marked a slate of September awareness dates at its Sept. 1 meeting, highlighting recovery, preparedness, voting access, kinship care and forensic work ahead of events later this month.

Recovery Month centers on the third annual Recovery is Real gathering Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the AJ Ferlazzo Building. The free-lunch event carries the theme “Recovery is Real, Restoring Every Aspect of Life.” Community Services Behavioral Health Program Manager Tanya invited the public to attend.


Potomac District Supervisor Andrea O. Bailey directed County Executive Christopher Shorter and staff to study whether Prince William County can establish a local marijuana tax, after Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed 2026 legislation creating a legal adult-use marketplace in Virginia.

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Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny A. Boddye circulated two draft water resolutions at the Sept. 1 Board of County Supervisors meeting and asked colleagues to discuss them. The Board did not vote.

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Prince William County Schools opened the 2026-27 year with a 92.7% first-week bus on-time arrival rate, Superintendent Dr. LaTanya D. McDade told the School Board on Wednesday — one of the first times in five or six years the division has hit that mark for the opening week, she said.

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Chair-at-Large Deshundra Jefferson said Prince William County will schedule a work session on license plate readers, red-light cameras, and who can access the footage.

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A baby died after a hit-and-run on Richmond Highway in Woodbridge, Prince William County police said Monday.

The crash happened at 9:42 p.m. Sept. 3 in a parking lot in the 14500 block of Richmond Highway, near Gabe’s and Featherstone Road. A 28-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were walking through the lot when a dark-colored pickup struck both of them and left the scene. The truck has not been found.


The Prince William Board of County Supervisors honored Brentsville District High School’s boys soccer team on Tuesday night, Sept. 1, after a season that returned the Tigers to the top of Class 3.

The recognition was held from the afternoon session because players were still in school. Chair-at-Large Deshundra Jefferson opened the item. Brentsville District Supervisor Tom Gordy represents the school. Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega joined the presentation.


Dumfries Town Council on Sept. 1 laid out a September calendar of volunteer home repairs, a slave cemetery stone dedication, a community-versus-police basketball night, and a late-month economic-mobility kickoff.

Councilman Russell A. Young announced Labor of Love Weekend, a town community-service initiative that helps eligible homeowners complete minor repairs and improvements at no labor cost.


Elder Ramos told supervisors he can wait three weeks for a concrete truck when a patio pour gets canceled. On Tuesday night, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors gave his family a legal place to store the material.

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