Dale City, Va. — Children took to a fresh sheet of ice Saturday as the Prince William Ice Center welcomed their hockey teams back home.
With a certificate of occupancy fresh off the presses, hockey fanatics and new players alike broke in the new sheet of ice on the “NHL” side.
Woodbridge, Va. — More than 40 families remain without permanent housing following floods that ravaged the Holly Acres Mobile Home Park earlier this month.
Today, those families along with the Woodbridge Flood Victims Committee will hold a press conference to announce a benefit concert for the flood victims. That conference is scheduled at noon at the Woodbridge mobile home park where so many are still trying to put their lives back together, said Ricardo Juarez Nava with Mexicans Without Borders.
Stafford, Va. — Those who rallied in support of Banana Man last week were not wrong to do what they did.
In an effort to protest Colonial Forge High School Principal Dr. Karen Spillman’s decision to suspend 14-year-old Bryan Thompson after he ran down the football field during halftime wearing a banana suit Sept. 16, students wore “free Banana Man” t-shirts in light of the incident. School officials stopped students from wearing the shirts.
Emergency crews are on the scene but the break leaves behind major road damage, according to reports.
Drivers are asked to steer clear of the area.
Stafford, Va. – Residents of two homes now condemned after a landslide say Stafford County officials are dragging their feet when it comes to arranging a meeting between homeowners and property developers.
According to the two homeowners affected by the Sept. 10 landslide in Stafford’s Austin Ridge neighborhood, this is the third time land behind the homes has failed. After a prior failure, a retaining wall was build behind the homes by the property developer, said Stafford Board of Supervisors Chairman Mark Dudenhefer.
In some of the cases the callers said the smell is so bad they have become ill, feeling light headed and nauseated, according to fire and rescue crews.
In most cases, fire crews have been called for reports of natural gas permeating neighborhoods. But what is it?
Crews were called to the single-story home at 7 p.m., where fire was showing from the front of the home. Once crews determined everyone had made it out safely they began their attack on the fire, said Prince William fire and rescue spokeswoman Kim Hylander.
Crews doused the blaze and no one was injured. One person inside the home was alerted to be fire when a smoke detector went off and smelled smoke.
Police found the man running along U.S. 1 in Woodbridge and later took him to the hospital where he later died. Insidenova.com has more.
A Stafford sheriff’s deputy was standing in the commons area of the high school on Va. 610 in North Stafford at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday when a student walked up to the deputy and said another student wanted to fight him.
The student pointed out his would-be attacker to the deputy, and the law enforcement officer approached the student, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
North Stafford, Va. — An area church has created a fund to help landslide victims in Stafford’s Austin Ridge neighborhood.
Ebenezer United Methodist Church in Stafford County set up a website that provides information where to make tax-deductible donations either online or by check. All of the funds collected will go to help offset repair and other costs incurred by families who were evacuated from their homes following the landslide.
