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

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.

Vandals hit Braemar neighborhood, police said

By Uriah Kiser

Published June 10, 2020 at 1:12PM

Prince Willian police were called to the Braemar neighborhood this morning after someone spraypainted graffiti on two streets.

The vandals targeted Braemar Parkway and Tummel Falls Drive.

NOVA Community College to have mostly virtual learning for fall

By Gianna Jirak

Published June 10, 2020 at 10:15AM | Updated June 29, 2022 at 8:00AM

Northern Virginia Community College Manassas Campus.

Northern Virginia Community College classes are going to start on time, but for the most part, they will not in-person.

In a statement on June 8 made by the college’s president, Anne M. Kress, it was announced that the college’s classes would begin as scheduled on August 24 and be “offered in [NOVA’s] approved distance-learning formats, with the majority being offered either through NOVA Online or through synchronous delivery via Zoom.”

Crews work to extricate crash victim near Dumfries

By Uriah Kiser

Published June 9, 2020 at 3:01PM | Updated June 10, 2020 at 10:03AM

Update 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 10

One of the drivers in this incident is charged with driving on a revoked license.

Robert “Bob” Seefeldt, husband of former Prince William Board Chair husband dies, leaves a legacy of service

By Jacob Mosser

Published June 9, 2020 at 1:26PM

Robert "Bob" Seefeldt passes away at the age of 87. Photo provided by Montecastle Funeral Home.

Robert “Bob” Seefeldt, long time Prince William County resident and husband to former Board of Supervisors chair Kathleen Seefeldt, died on May 23, 2020 at the age of 87 while receiving hospice care.

A native of Marietta, Minnesota, Bob moved to the National Capital region for a position at the national headquarters of Future Farmers of America (FFA) in Alexandria. Eventually, Bob and Kathy moved their family to Prince William County in 1970.

Prince William unveils new public health campaigned aimed at businesses

By Rick Horner

Published June 9, 2020 at 12:37PM

Businesses in Prince William County are encouraged to take the pledge

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Family member shot 18-year-old man, police said

By Arabella Thornhill

Published June 8, 2020 at 3:44PM | Updated June 8, 2020 at 7:03PM

Police have caught the suspect accused of shooting a family member in the leg after an argument.

Potomac Local News was first to tell you about the shooting, which occurred Sunday, June 7, at 4:20 p.m., officers responded to a home located in the 12100 block of Chaucer Lane in Lake Ridge, according to a Prince William County Police Department press release. Police say that an 18-year-old man victim and the suspect, a family member were involved in an argument that escalated.

Prince William County Schools expected to head back to class in August

By Gianna Jirak

Published June 7, 2020 at 9:20PM | Updated June 8, 2020 at 1:44PM

Prince William County Schools (PWCS) students should expect to go back to the classroom bright and early in August, as in a recent press release it was signaled that schools will be reopening on time for in-person learning.

School buildings across the state have been shuttered since mid-March when Gov. Ralph Northam ordered schools closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The move forced school divisions to shift their educational efforts solely online.

Prince William schools shield superintendent’s Twitter messages to students

By Uriah Kiser

Published June 7, 2020 at 6:48PM | Updated June 7, 2020 at 9:02PM

Prince William Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Steven Walts.

Prince William County Schools won’t show the Tweets that have now become the center of a legal investigation into the school division’s superintendent.

A law firm is now reviewing Tweets from Dr. Steven L. Walts, the 15-year chief of the county’s school division, after county resident Guy Morgan, of Gainesville, alleged the superintendent was using his social media account to exchange private, inappropriate comminution with students via Twitter’s direct message feature. Direct messages do not appear in the public timeline of a Twitter user.