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The show must go on, and it did on Saturday during the rescheduled running of the Frigid 5K in Occoquan.
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There are a few things that caught our attention when we read this morning’s briefing from the National Weather Service.
After seeing how high temperatures during the day today could rise up well above 40 degrees, it’s what will happen after colder air from the north pushes into our area later tonight, just in time for a winter storm to move in.
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Updated March 31, 2014
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Election season is heating up for the four towns in Prince William County.
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You can beat traffic congestion on Interstate 95 this weekend by riding the Metro Direct bus from Woodbridge for free.
The HOV lanes will be closed this weekend from 11 p.m. tonight to 2 p.m. Sunday, and that can cause major traffic headaches through the region as the lack of the two HOV lanes can cause delays to stack up on the highway.
Police are looking for one person who fled the scene of a traffic stop on foot in the Forrestdale section of Dale City.
A helicopter has been called to search for the person.
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OCCOQUAN, Va. — The entrepreneurial Mayor of Occoquan picked has set a milestone by picking up his 1,000th passenger.
Earine Porta and his Occoquan Transportation Company has been shutting people between an Amtrak station in Lorton to the small town along the Occoquan River in Prince William County since April of last year. A longtime promoter of small business in the tiny town of just under 800 residents, Porta thought his private company would help spur tourism in the area.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — The unsightly remnants of a billboard that once stood along U.S. 1 in Dumfries are gone.
PotomacLocal.com first told you about the billboard that was blown down in a storm last year. It had sat in disrepair along the major commuter thoroughfare for months drawing complaints from town residents.
Officials took issue with how the Prince William County Public School System budgets its money.
The County’s Board of Supervisors, the taxing authority, on Tuesday set the advertised property tax rate at $1.158 per $100 of assessed value for the FY2015 budget. While the final tax rate won’t be adopted until April, tax revenues collected under the tax rate of $862.3 million will go to fund the operation of county government, and 57.23% of it automatically will go to fund schools.
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DUMFRIES, Va. — Cydny Neville has left her job has Dumfries’ Community Services Coordinator and has decided to run for Town Council.
The 37-year-old has spent the last two and a half years serving Dumfries in her weekday job planning town events such as the annual Multi-Cultural Festival in the spring, Fall Festival, and the Christmas Parade. She also applied for and won a grant for a now implemented youth program, Dumfries Cares, which pairs school students with mentors to help them with classwork.