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.
Units were dispatched Saturday, April 16, at 1:08 p.m. for a reported brush fire off Aden Road on the border of Quantico Marine Corps Base. Crews arrived to find a significant brush fire burning.
According to Prince William County Fire Marshal Matt Smolsky, the fire was a continuation of a fire that started on a firing range on base that erupted near the exact location on Friday, April 15,
According to police, Prince William County school Information Technology Specialist sexually assaulted multiple students while on school grounds.
On April 6, detectives with the Special Victims Bureau, in conjunction with Child Protective Services, began an investigation into an alleged sexual assault at John Jenkins Elementary School, at 4060 Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge, involving a school staff member. Police identified four victims, all 8-year-old girls, as being inappropriately touched by the accused while in his office within the school building between March and April 2022.
A popular senior citizens expo will return to our region with a new name.
The Prince William Chamber announced that the event formerly known as Transitions has been renamed the Aging Gracefully Expo. The event will return in person this year after having to be conducted virtually the past two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
[Updated Noon] Route 28 north is open at the Prince William County / Manassas City lane after a tractor-trailer overturned just before 6 a.m..
According to police, crews spent hours working on the accident clean up, working to unload the truck’s cargo — computer parts — from the overturned trailer. No one was injured.
