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Repeal meals tax, restaurant owner asks; ‘We lost over 20% of our customers, cut payroll, got rent relief’

By Letters to the Editor

As you consider the County’s budget, I request that you repeal the 4% Meals Tax on restaurant food.  The following are my reasons.

The tax is unfair and unhealthy.  Restaurants prepare fresh food daily; grocery stores sell the same food in frozen, refrigerated, and dehydrated forms.  Restaurants like mine start with unadulterated raw ingredients; grocery foods, by necessity, contain chemical preservatives and stabilizers.  Cooks who live and pay taxes in the County prepare restaurant food; factory workers in faraway locations manufacture grocery food.

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Dumfries approves Fitness Court funding, park to open in June

By Potomac Local News
[Photo: Fitness Court]

The Dumfries Town Council will consider spending nearly a quarter million dollars on building a fitness park tonight.

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DEQ modifies plan, only considers diesel generators for Loudoun | Prince William Times

By Local News
Protesters gather at the Virginia DEQ office in Woodbridge urging state leaders not to allow data center to use emergency back up diesel generators.

After hearing objections and complaints from scores of citizens and environmental watchdogs, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has modified a proposed change to state rules that would allow data centers to run their generators as needed when the electric grid is strained.

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Breaking News: OmniRide commuter buses roll for first time in 4 weeks

By Potomac Local News

A bus driver strike at OmniRide, the regional transportation commission, is four weeks old, but there are signs of limited restored service.

Buses began rolling this afternoon from the transit center in Woodbridge to serve the route between Horner Road Commuter Lot, near Potomac Mills mall, to the Pentagon.

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Youngkin awards Mason, Mary Washington lab school grants

By Potomac Local News
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R)

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced the first thirteen approved planning grants to develop innovative lab schools in Virginia.

A Lab School is a public, nonsectarian, nonreligious school established by a public institution of higher education, public higher education center, institute, authority or other eligible institution of higher education. Lab Schools are designed to stimulate the development of innovative education programs for preschool through grade 12 students.

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Route 28 bypass virtual meeting Tuesday, March 28 at noon

By Potomac Local News

Residents will learn more about one of the most expensive road projects in Prince William County.

The county’s transportation department will hold a virtual “Transportation Tuesday” on March 14, 2023, to discuss the Route 28 Bypass, a four-lane road connecting Sudley Road, near the Prince William Medical Center in Manassas to Route 28 in Fairfax County.

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Town considers quarter-million-dollar fitness park

By Potomac Local News
[Photo: Fitness Court]

Mayor Derrick Wood says the Fitness Court park would be built on land next to the old Dumfries-Triangle Rescue Squad. The cost will be $270,000. The National Fitness Campaign, the firm selling the outdoor gyms, will provide a $30,000 discount to the town for installing its product.

Town documents refer to the discount as a grant. According to the Fitness Court website, the outdoor gym has seven exercises. Similar Fitness Courts have been built in 500 communities across the U.S.

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Brew Republic Bierwerks reopens after pipe burst

By Potomac Local News

Brew Republic Bierwerks, a craft brewery that closed in October 2022 after a water pipe burst and flood damage, is set to re-open in its existing location in Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center retail shopping area. The brewery hosted its grand reopening event on Saturday, March 4, 2023.

Montclair resident and former elected official Jeff Frederick and his team have been working tirelessly to rebuild the brewery that originally opened in September 2016, and now, after nearly four months.

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