Dumfries Town Council on Tuesday approved the last local permits for a grocery-anchored project at 17439 and 17471 Old Stagecoach Road, voting three times and passing each item 7-0. The grocer has not been named. No one spoke at the public hearings.

The votes were taken at Town Hall, 17739 Main Street. They had been carried over from the Sept. 15 meeting, when the council rezoned about 15.33 acres from limited industrial to general business. That rezoning, REZ-2026-001, covers the parcels and right-of-way southeast of Route 1 and Potomac Shores Parkway. Tuesday’s items were the permits that still had to come back.


The Haymarket Town Council on Oct. 5 held a public hearing and then approved an amendment to the adopted fiscal year 2026-27 budget.

The amendment increases the adopted budget by nearly $194,000 using reserve funds and grant funding. The public hearing was held at Haymarket Town Hall, 15000 Washington St., Suite 100. No members of the public spoke. The hearing was closed, then the regular meeting continued.


Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeremy Austin, a native of Woodbridge, Virginia, supports naval aviation units while serving at Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing Pacific, the Navy Office of Community Outreach reported.

Austin graduated from Metcalfe County High School in 2010 and joined the Navy five years ago. He serves as an aviation maintenance administrationman and is the leading petty officer of the HSM Wing Safety Division.


The three trailheads at James Long Park now have kiosks with full-size trail maps, built and installed by Eagle Scout Chris Sheeran, Prince William County Parks & Recreation announced Tuesday.

Sheeran spent the past year on the project, handling the design, approval, construction and installation of kiosks at all three trailheads in the park’s trail system. Parks staff added the maps on Tuesday.


Haymarket Town Council waived the 4 percent meals tax for the Haymarket Day weekend and briefed final plans for Oct. 17.

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Prince William Parks & Recreation, Amazon, and KABOOM! will build a kid-designed inclusive playground Friday, Oct. 23, at George Hellwig Memorial Park, the county said.

Volunteers start at 8 a.m. A build-week celebration, with remarks and photos, is set for 2:30 p.m. The park is at 14420 Bristow Road in Manassas, next to the Dr. Richard Tami Miracle Field. The county said the playground should serve more than 900 children a year.


Expanded testing found no lasting harm to the Potomac River from January’s collapse of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line, DC Water said.

“These results are reassuring. They reconfirm what earlier testing indicated — that the river has returned to normal,” Interim General Manager Matthew T. Brown said.


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