Prince William County’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism is hosting a community master plan meeting on Doves Landing Park Thursday, April 21, from 7 to 9:00 p.m. at the Hellwig Administration Building Board Room, 14420 Bristow Road near Manassas.
There will be an opportunity for the community to provide input. The meeting can be attended both in-person and virtually. To attend virtually, email [email protected] to request a meeting invitation.
A pastor faces sexual assault charges.
According to Prince William police, at 8:58 a.m. on Thursday, April 14, officers went to investigate a sexual assault at the Reconciliation Community Church at 14654 Joplin Road near Manassas.
A driver involved in a fatal crash that occurred in Woodbridge faces charges.
According to police, a 2009 Mercedes E350 was traveling more than the posted speed limit when he disregarded a red traffic signal at the intersection of Smoketown and Minnieville roads and struck a 2016 Toyota Highlander on April 13.
A plan to create a local health department was met with critical reception at a Manassas City Council meeting.
Prince William County leaders want to replace the county’s Health District Office, operated by the state government, with a health department under its control. The new health office would provide services for county residents, and for those who live in the independent cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
The Washington Post has named Amy Schott, principal at Alexander Henderson Elementary School in Montclair, the 2022 Principal of the Year. After receiving the 2021 Prince William County Public Schools Principal of the Year Award, Schott was nominated for this annual award.
Schott is serving in her first year as principal at Henderson Elementary after serving 13 years as principal at Rockledge Elementary. She has worked for Prince William County Public School since 2001.
[Updated April 19] A 20-year-old woman was raped twice in her own home, police said.
At 12:25 p.m. on January 11, 2022, officers investigated a sexual assault at a home in the Dumfries area on October 13, 2021. The 20-year-old victim told police that an acquaintance was visiting early on the morning of October 13 when he went into the basement.
The Prince William County landfill and a recycling and composting facility near Manassas will reopen on Sundays.
The county landfill, at 14811 Dumfries Road (Route 234) and the Balls Ford Road Compost Facility, at 13000 Balls Ford Road near Manassas will reopen on Sundays starting April 24, 2022. Both facilities will operate from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
In honor of its grand opening, the church prepared 1,000 pounds of meat and invited the community to participate in its Great Banquet on Sunday, April 17, 2022.
The Great Banquet, an annual event put on hold since the pandemic, marked the church’s Easter service and will also be an inaugural ceremony for the new building and the church’s Blue Ribbon Results preschool that opened last fall.
Residents are invited to bring their leftover food to Compost Awareness Day.
The Prince William County Solid Waste Division and its partners Freestate Farms and Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers will host the event on Saturday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Balls Ford Road Compost Facility, 13000 Balls Ford Road, near Manassas.
