Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of posts by North Stafford business owners and residents that will examine North Stafford and Garrisonville as a community, and introduce our readers to the small locally-owned businesses and services in the community.
By CRISSY SHARON
Mainstreet Grill and Bar
DUMFRIES, Va. — Few, if any person Monday night spoke in favor of a plan to allow a landfill to rise 115 feet higher than currently permitted by the state.
A handful of residents spoke out on a plan from Potomac Landfill owners which would allow them to pile construction waste in piles of 310 feet tall on thier 39 acres of land. Emails submitted by residents opposing the plan were also read aloud by Mayor Gerald Foreman.
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LAKE RIDGE, Va. — On September 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Prince William County Police and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
UPDATE ON ARRESTS — FROM POLICE REPORTS
Burglary While Armed | Malicious Wounding *ARREST – On September 12th, arrests were made in connection to the stabbing which occurred in the 3700 block of Del Mar Dr in Woodbridge from September 11th.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — The Woodbridge campus of Northern Virginia Community College is closed after a sprinkler system malfunctioned.
More now from the college:
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — A senior citizen was nearly taken for $3,000 during a would-be phone scam before authorities stepped in.
Stafford County Sheriff’s Deputy Kevin Courtman was called to a home on Smithfield Way in south Stafford on Monday after a woman received a phone call from what appeared to be her female friend stating she was in jail. The woman told the victim she was jailed in Fairfax County after running a red traffic light and colliding with at least one other car, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
FROM POLICE REPORTS:
Dale City
DUMFRIES, Va. — A fall festival brought together Virginia’s first town on Saturday as about 40 vendors lined up in Garrison Park behind Town Hall.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Residents of Dumfries tonight will have their say on a plan that could allow a debris landfill to grow in piles of up to 310 feet tall.
A public hearing will be held tonight at six o’clock at Town Hall on Main Street where residents have been invited to speak about a request from the operators of the Potomac Landfill to town officials to allow the landfill to increase the height of their debris piles from 195 feet to 310 feet.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Family, friends, co-workers and members of area fire and police departments gathered this Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Woodbridge on Minnieville Road to pay their respects to former OWL Volunteer Fire Department Chief Richard “Ricky” Arrington.
