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Prince William
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Since this Board of County Supervisors took office in January, 2020, Ann Wheeler has marshaled her fellow Democrats on a determined path to open Prince William County to the data center industry with little due diligence to their impacts on the environment or the residents.
Ask yourself, is this why you chose to live in Prince William County?
Prince William County Potomac District Supervisor Andrea Bailey will hold a town hall to discuss the coal ash ponds and plans to cap them in a landfill near Dumfries.
The town hall will be held on March 30 at Potomac High School, 3401 Panther Pride Drive in Woodbridge.
The Prince William County Office of Historic Preservation opened its updated African American History Trail.
The ceremony is open to the public and will be held in the atrium of the James J. McCoart Administration Building at 1 County Complex Court, Woodbridge, Virginia.
Weir was elected to the Board of County Supervisors in a special election on Feb. 21, 2023. He will take the seat vacated by former Gainesville District Supervisor Peter Candland, who resigned in December 2022.
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While I applaud your latest opinion piece about data centers, there was one aspect of it that I take issue with:
“We hear former Deputy County Executive Rebecca Horner has been sent back to the county planning department after several recent departures we told you about last week. She’s familiar with the planning office — she ran the place until she was promoted to deputy county executive in 2020. She may right the ship and create a plan because she’s one of the few people still around with institutional knowledge.”
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Prince William County is the next school division in our region to consider installing metal detectors.
The state’s second-largest school division aims to place Evolv Express Lanes or metal-detecting scanners at its high schools. If it does, the division will follow Manassas City Public Schools, which voted to install the same type of metal detector at Osbourn High School, the city’s only high school.
On February 22 at 6:13 p.m., officers responded to investigate a potential threat of violence made towards Lake Ridge Middle School, located at 12350 Mohican Road in Lake Ridge.
The investigation revealed that an unknown individual, later identified as a student of another school, posted threats directed toward the school over Snapchat. A student who received the message immediately informed a family member, who contacted the police.
Call it a canary in the coal mine. Call it the result of years of residents pleading for their local leaders to hear them. Call it a referendum on data centers.
Whatever you call it, the landslide election of Bob Weir to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors with more than 60% of the vote should serve as a wake-up call to those in power in not only Prince William County but those who see data centers as a cash cow for their respective jurisdictions.
Prince William County General Registrar Eric Olsen says a Washington State-based ballot printing service claimed responsibility for a $10,000 Election Day snafu.
Olsen said that K&H Printing in Everette, Washington, produced larger ballots than ballot-scanning machines in Prince William County could accommodate. The error led to a small number of ballots being hand counted in a Special Election on Tuesday, February 24, 2023.