PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Residents should not toss glass into their recycling bins as trash haulers in Prince William County will no longer accept it for single-stream recycling.
County solid waste division chief Tom Smith told leaders it’s costing the county more than it used to recycle the product, as it must be shipped to processing facilities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, as one doesn’t exist in Virginia.
For local hotel owners and workers, it is no longer enough to make the beds and clean the bathrooms.
RICHMOND — Environmental and consumer groups applauded Gov. Ralph Northam after he signed legislation this week that aims to protect water quality by cleaning up more than 27 million cubic yards of coal ash from unlined ponds in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Northam signed into law SB 1355, sponsored by Sen. Frank Wagner, R-Virginia Beach, and HB 2786, sponsored by Del. Riley Ingram, R-Hopewell. The legislation seeks to clean up coal ash sites in the city of Chesapeake and in Prince William, Chesterfield, and Fluvanna counties.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — (Press release) Today, the Prince William County Office of Tourism announced that it has received a $10,000 grant from the Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) “50 Years of Love” program marketing fund.
The National Park Service (NPS) wants to hear from you about its proposed plan to improve trail systems and expand trail use at Prince William Forest Park.
PRINCE WILLAM COUNTY — (Press release) The Prince William County School Board has approved the School Division’s $1.24 billion budget for the Fiscal Year 2020.
It’s an increase of about four percent over the previous year’s budget.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — (Press release) Shooting Investigation — On March 20 at 10:13AM, officers responded to the 4000 block of Marjon Ct. in Dumfries for a shooting in progress. Officers arrived and secured the scene. Officers located one man and one woman, both adults, shot within the residence.
The condition of the two shot is not being disclosed at this time.
WOODBRIDGE — Frank Principi stayed true to his record of denying every newly proposed housing development in Woodbridge.
On Tuesday night, he sided with the majority of residents who filled seats at a public hearing, and nearly four hours time speaking against 325 new homes to be built as part of Rays Regarde, a four-year-old project slated for construction at the end of Horner Road at Interstate 95.
MANASSAS — When Sheriff Glendell Hill was stationed at Vint Hill working in the Army Security Agency in the late 1960s, he lived in Manassas where a Confederate Battle Flag waived in the air.
When the left the service, he stayed in Manassas despite the fact he was a black man in a then-segregated southern town.
WOODBRIDGE — In 2008, a proposed development called Prince William Overlook failed to win the hearts and minds of county leaders, and they voted down a request to rezone 10 acres of the land for a new housing development.
On Tuesday, that same Prince William County Board of Supervisors will have before it an even larger housing project that would be built on the same site, an old debris landfill that sits at the end of Horner Road, abutting Interstate 95 in Woodbridge. In the early 1990s, before the construction of Prince William Parkway, this stretch of Horner Road was the main thoroughfare to cross the interstate highway.
