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Prince William Supervisors lose control of meeting as Black Lives Matter supporters call for abolishing police, U.S.

Published June 16, 2020 at 7:33PM | Updated June 18, 2020 at 11:37AM

Black Lives Matter supporters filled the Prince William Board of County Supervisors meeting chamber today in Woodbridge.

Through statements laced with profanity, they attacked the sitting members of the elected body, which is controlled by a Democratic majority, for having a discussion about issuing a proclamation that “all lives matter,” immediately preceding the issuance of a proclamation that “black lives matter,” and demanded the county end its partnership with Federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Blotter: Police report rape, indecent liberties with child

By Potomac Local News

Published June 15, 2020 at 10:22PM

From Prince William police:

Rape – On June 14, detectives with the Special Victims Unit concluded an investigation into a sexual assault that was reported to have occurred at the Sleep Inn located at 17470 Jefferson Davis Hwy. in Dumfries (22026) on June 4.

Judge allows resident to refile FOIA case against Prince William Board of County Supervisors

By Uriah Kiser

Published June 15, 2020 at 3:47PM

The Judicial Center for Prince William County, Manassas, and Manassas Park.

Prince William County District Court Judge Wally S. Covington today allowed a case against the county Board of Supervisors to continue.

The judge ruled a non-suit, which allows the plaintiff in the case, Alan “Bret” Gloss, an eight-year resident of the county’s Coles District, to refile his complaint against the Board of County Supervisors at a later date.

Defunding the police is a bad idea

By Letters to the Editor

Published June 14, 2020 at 1:27PM | Updated December 4, 2020 at 10:36AM

By D.J. Jordan & Scott Martin

We join millions of people around the nation, and the world, in denouncing police brutality and injustice in America, and we grieve the senseless murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others.

Prince William Commonwealth Attorney: “It was quite clear that no public business was transacted”

By Uriah Kiser

Published June 12, 2020 at 12:34PM | Updated June 13, 2020 at 6:05AM

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Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney Amy Ashworth has weighed in on a meeting that has prompted a lawsuit against the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.

In a letter sent to Potomac Local News today, Ashworth determined that no public business was conducted during a May 31 meeting of the Prince William County Police Citizens Advisory Board. The special meeting was called by committee chairman Cozy Bailey the morning after a riot engulfed the area of Sudley Road and Sudley Manor Drive, just five miles outside Manassas.

Prince William Library System stages soft re-open, still no visitors

By Olivia Aveni Briscoe

Published June 12, 2020 at 11:13AM

There still isn’t a confirmed date of when full library operations will resume for the Prince William Public Library System.

Phase one of reopening will start on Monday, June 15, according to an email from Rachel Johnson, Communication Services Division Chief.

Triangle man dies in Alexandria crash

By Rick Horner

Published June 11, 2020 at 5:57PM

Wayne A. Murray, 51, of Triangle, Va. died at the scene of a fatal car crash that occurred at 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 7 on the main lines of Interstate 395 South just south of Duke Street Alexandria.

According to a press release from the Virginia State Police (VSP), Murray who drove a 1997 Ford Ranger pickup truck was traveling south on I-395 through a work zone when it entered a closed lane. The lane in question was inside the active work zone and struck a 2009 Mack truck traveling north in that same lane. The Mack truck was part of the work zone crew. Murray was wearing a seatbelt.

Prince William appoints new student representatives to the school board

By Gianna Jirak

Published June 11, 2020 at 5:54PM

School may be out of session, but the fourth round of student representatives to the Prince William County School Board have been announced.

Rising seniors Ben Kim of Stonewall Jackson High School and Caroline Silvera of C.D. Hylton Senior High School have been chosen to serve as co-student representatives to the school board. Rising senior Ashley Menjivar of Woodbridge High School was additionally chosen as an alternate student representative. These three students were chosen out of a list of twenty-one finalists.

Resident slaps Prince William Board of County Supervisors with FOIA lawsuit after post-riot meeting

By Uriah Kiser

Published June 11, 2020 at 5:53PM | Updated June 12, 2020 at 6:18AM

Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chair At-large Ann Wheeler. [Photo: Uriah Kiser/Potomac Local News]

A Prince William County resident is suing the county’s board of supervisors following an unpublicized meeting of five members of the governing body the day after a riot broke out in the county, near Manassas.

Alan Gloss, an eight-year resident of the Coles District and the plaintiff in the civil suit, says five the Democratic members of the Board of County Supervisors who attended the meeting violated Virginia Freedom of Information Act which requires meetings with more than two elected officials to be advertised to the public before they begin.

Prince William County’s next high school to be named ‘Gainesville High School’

By Gianna Jirak

Published June 10, 2020 at 10:39PM | Updated June 11, 2020 at 12:46PM

A image rendering a prototype of the 13th High School.

After hundreds of suggestions and multiple school board meetings, a name has finally been chosen for Prince William County’s 13th high school.

The school, which will be located at 13150 University Boulevard in Gainesville, has been named Gainesville High School. The naming was approved at the Prince William County School Board’s June 10 meeting, where the board also named the school’s library media center in honor of Officer Ashley Marie Guindon and its Student Services Center in honor of Lillian Orlich.