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House of Mercy launches $350,000 Room for Mercy campaign

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Four people stand at the House of Mercy food pantry doors under the 8154 address, holding school-supply donations next to a labeled FOOD PANTRY sign.

House of Mercy, Prince William County’s largest food pantry, launched a $350,000 “Room for Mercy” campaign Tuesday to lease 4,500 square feet of adjacent space in Manassas after warehouse storage shrank this summer. The Manassas nonprofit says the 30-day drive ends Oct. 31 and would restore thrift-store floor space now used for overflow, protect Christmas with Mercy gifts for more than 1,300 children, and let the pantry become a client-choice market.

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Manassas nonprofit delivers $92,964 for Nepal flood relief

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America Nepal Helping Society, a Manassas nonprofit founded in 2008, says it raised and delivered $92,964 from 167 donors for flood and landslide relief in Nepal’s Rasuwa–Bhotekoshi region. A Virginia delegation presented the check to Nepal’s government in New York during a meeting with Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal at a program hosted by the Consulate General of Nepal, the group said in a press release forwarded Sunday by Sen. Danica Roem.

America Nepal Helping Society in Virginia Raises $92,964 for Nepal Flood and Landslide Relief

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Warner and Vindman listed for a Woodbridge rally Saturday, then Manassas and Dumfries

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Early vote block party flyer for Merchant Park in Dumfries listing Mayor Derrick Wood, Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Eugene Vindman

Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Eugene Vindman are advertised together Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Prince William County Government Center in Woodbridge.

A Prince William County Democratic Committee flyer emailed to Potomac Local News on Thursday night lists a rally from noon to 2 p.m. at 1 County Complex Court. The flyer says the committee is the host. It gives the same address for the McCoart Building and the James J. McCoart Administration Building.

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Occoquan Fall Arts & Crafts Show returns Saturday and Sunday

By Potomac Local News
Crowds of visitors walk down a tree-lined street in Historic Occoquan between rows of white vendor tents during the town's arts and crafts show.

The Town of Occoquan’s Fall Arts & Crafts Show takes over the historic district this weekend, Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

Mayor Earnie Porta, in a Sept. 18 e-newsletter to Potomac Local News, said the show will bring hundreds of vendors and thousands of visitors into town. He called it one of the area’s signature events.

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Free pre-K, a bus and no tuition — boards meet tonight

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Prince William County School Board members seated at the dais
The Prince William County School Board.

By the 2030–31 school year, every 4-year-old who lives in the county and wants a seat would get full-day pre-K, with a bus ride and no tuition.

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Young Marines set Oct. 17 Quantico 5K to open Red Ribbon Week

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Young Marines and adults in matching shirts posed in front of the National Museum of the Marine Corps entrance and mast
Young Marines competing in the Drug Demand Reduction Dash gather at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia, in 2025. Photo courtesy Young Marines.

Young Marines national headquarters in Dumfries is inviting the public to a 5-kilometer run at the National Museum of the Marine Corps on Saturday, Oct. 17, as the kickoff to Red Ribbon Week.

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Bye-right: Prince William slams the easy data-center door — 90 days to get in line

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Side-by-side maps of Prince William County’s old data-center overlay and the remaining overlay
Prince William data-center overlay before and after. Staff maps as of June 30, 2026.

Prince William just made it a lot harder to drop a data center on mapped land without a Board vote.

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They tried to go home — then rezoned the junkyard for a grocery

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Dumfries Town Hall at 17739 Main Street in Dumfries. Photo: Potomac Local file

Dumfries Town Council voted 7-0 late Tuesday to rezone about 15.33 acres on Old Stagecoach Road for a grocery, a drive-thru pharmacy, and a short strip of inline retail — after first beating back a move to send everyone home before the hearing started.

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Virginia Beach filmmaker’s “No Grace” lands in Tackett’s Mill horror fest

By Mike Salmon
Clearbrook Artist Collective Horror Film Fest poster
Poster for the Clearbrook Artist Collective Horror Film Fest at Tackett’s Mill in Lake Ridge. Photo: Clearbrook Artist Collective

The Horror Film Fest at Tackett’s Mill is set for Oct. 16, and one of the shorts on the slate was shot in Virginia Beach.

Kendra Louka of LoukaRound Productions submitted No Grace. She told Potomac Local’s Mike Salmon the film will screen at the Clearbrook Artist Collective program inside the shopping center arts space at 2230 B Tackett’s Mill Drive.

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Families urge blood donations as Board marks Sickle Cell Awareness Month

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Charles J. Colgan Sr. High School. Photo: Potomac Local News / file.
Charles J. Colgan Sr. High School. Photo: Potomac Local News / file.

Candis King would have turned a year older this month.

The Colgan High School 10th-grader died Oct. 4, 2025, of complications of sickle cell disease. Prince William County Public Schools confirmed her death the next day. Principal Tim Healey told Colgan families in a letter that counseling would be available that week. Potomac Local reported the death Oct. 5, 2025.

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