A campaign volunteer for Neabsco District School Board member Diane Raulston collected signatures to get the candidate on the November ballot before having her voting rights restored.
Prior to the restoration of her voting rights on April 10, 2019, the campaign volunteer was barred from participating in the electoral process. Of the 144 validated signatures she submitted, only 87 of them were collected after her rights were restored.
Republicans are opening doors to offices in Prince William County in an effort to win back seats in the Virginia General Assembly.
The locations of the new office are:
Prince William County announced it’s now home to five million square feet of data center space.
The new centers are popping up in the western portion of the county, many of them opening with little or no fanfare, opting to keep their locations as private as possible. So far, we’ve seen data center spring up off Prince William Parkway near Gainesville, off Route 55 in Haymarket, as well as new construction for data centers occurring now on Hornbaker Road near Manassas, as well as near the Manassas Regional Airport.
In recent weeks, firefighters in Prince William County have been called to a large number of brush fires.
“As the weather becomes warmer, mulch becomes drier due to temperature conditions and lack of rainfall, making mulch fires more prevalent. Mulch is a prime location for fires due to improper discarding of smoking materials, by pedestrians, in or near a mulch bed or from motor vehicles. According to the Virginia Fire Chiefs Association, Inc., mulch ignites, smolders, and produces an open flame, which can easily extend up and into a structure. Temperatures, produced by a mulch fire, are enough to ignite adjacent combustible wall finishes, especially vinyl siding, located on the exterior of the building.”
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Prince William County rescue crews helped federal and Maryland officials search for a missing Alexandria man in the Potomac River on Sunday.
The search for the 26-year-old man continues today.
DUMFRIES — Have unused fresh food? Tap the app.
Prince William County Food Rescue is a new effort underway in the region to pair caterers, restaurants, and grocery stores with food pantries to deliver more fresh produce and dairy items to those who need them most.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A plan to build 104 65 new homes outside Manassas will go forward for approval in September.
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors will hold a public hearing for the Reserve at Long Forest, a planned cluster development located on Birmingham Drive near Signal Hill Elementary School. Supervisors must rezone 131 acres of land from agricultural land to semi-rural residential (SRR) land called for in the county’s comprehensive plan, in order for the development to proceed.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A recently approved development in Woodbridge is having a ripple effect on future of development in western Prince William County.
Ray’s Regarde, a hotly debated 325-home development on Horner Road in the densely populated eastern side of the county, was approved in a rezoning by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors in March. The new neighborhood will be built near the state’s largest commuter parking lot, on Interstate 95, which is the state’s only highway that includes every form of mass transit and ride-sharing available in Virginia.
MANASSAS — At a Tuesday morning meeting at the Manassas Chamber of Commerce, a trio of mayors from towns in Prince William County related their plans and successes in bringing new economic opportunities to their respective towns.
Mayors David Leake of Haymarket, Earnie Porta of Occoquan, Derrick Wood of Dumfries all discussed their recent experiences as part of the CC’s “Meet the Mayors” event. The trio discussed clearing out blighted and unused areas of their towns to make way for new projects and business opportunities.
