[Updated March 7] Prince William County taxpayers are now investors in a new firm that produces materials the size of materials, devices, and structures at dimensions less than 100 nanometers.

On Tuesday, March 1, the Board of County Supervisors gave $50,000 to the George Mason University Nanofabrication facility. The $3 million, 2,350 square foot facility at the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research building on the university’s Sci-Tech Campus outside Manassas will produce materials for electronic devices, biological sensors, biomedical devices, and optoelectronics.


OmniRide aims to spend $12.5 million on 19 new buses on multiple routes in the commuter bus system.

The Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission, OmniRide’s governing board, will meet tonight at 7 p.m. to consider the purchase. You can watch the meeting here, or attend the meeting in person at the OmniRideTransit Center, at 14700 Potomac Mills Road in Woodbridge.


Located near Wegmans, the new Barnes & Noble is the first to open in Woodbridge and features a café, large book rooms, stationery, puzzles, board games, and toys.

The new store will open at 10 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting and signing by local author TJ Klune, author of Under the Whispering Door – Barnes & Noble’s Speculative Fiction Book of 2021 – and historical fiction author Margaret Rodenberg, author of Finding Napoleon.


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Two new traffic cameras, the first of their kind, could be coming to Prince William County.

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A chain restaurant with a location at Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center is lampooning those who chose not to get a coronavirus vaccine.

According to a press release, Nando’s PERi-PERi, a South African chicken restaurant, today launched its “Don’t be an Anti-Apper” marketing campaign to skewer anti-vaxxers who don’t trust coronavirus vaccines from the restaurant.


A 43-year-old pedestrian died this morning after he was struck on Route 1.

At 3:04 a.m., police went to the area of Route 1 and Cardinal Dr in Woodbridge to investigate a crash involving a pedestrian. They found the driver of a 2011 Infinity G37X was traveling north on Route 1 toward Cardinal Drive struck a pedestrian in a lane, outside a crosswalk, in a dimly lit area of the street, police said.


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