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Learn If You’re Registered to Vote

By Potomac Local News

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — The Prince William County Human Rights Commission will meet on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the James J. McCoart Building. At the meeting, the Electoral Board will present information on the 2012 Presidential Election and some new guidelines that all voting citizens need to know before Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.

The chairman of the Electoral Board, Keith Scarborough, and the board members will discuss four items – 1) are you registered to vote at your current address; 2) has your polling place been changed; 3) do you have an acceptable form of identification; and 4) do you qualify to vote absentee?

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Chamber Preps Businesses Facing Deep Cuts

By Potomac Local News

QUANTICO, Va. — Business leaders say a series of upcoming forced budget cuts known as sequestration could force the state into a recession.

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Former Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Dies

By Potomac Local News
The Iwo Jima statue greets visitors to Quantico Marine Corps Base in Triangle. (Mary Davidson)

QUANTICO, Va. — Retired Sgt. Maj. Henry H. Black, 83, the 7th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, died Friday, Aug. 24, at his home in Fredericksburg, Va.

Sgt. Maj. Black served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and as the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps from 1975 to 1977. His personal awards include the Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.

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Prince William Tops in Job Growth

By Potomac Local News
The Seal of Prince William County, Va.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Need a job? Come to Prince William County.

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Few Quantico Workers Use Transit

By Potomac Local News
Commuters use the High Occupancy Vehicle lanes on I-95 in Woodbridge. (Uriah Kiser/PotomacLocal.com)

By MIKE DiCICCO
Quantico Sentry  

QUANTICO, Va. — A survey of Quantico commuters found that 82 percent of them drive to and from work alone. That is the number the base’s updated transportation management plan, to be released in September, will try to bring down in an attempt to reduce congestion on and around the base.

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Driver Killed on I-95

By Potomac Local News
Traffic is reduced down to two lanes on Interstate 95 north at mile marker 162 after a pedestrian was struck and killed.

UPDATE Monday, Aug. 20

Clarence E. Alston, 42, of Washington, D.C., was standing outside his car that was stopped on the right shoulder of northbound I-95 at the 162 mile marker. A northbound Hyundai Santa Fe struck Alston. The Hyundai then fled the scene. The vehicle and its driver, Carol Rood-Johnson, 19, of Woodbridge, Va., were located later Saturday morning in Prince Georges County, Md.

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Trees Fall, HOV Lanes Narrowing

By Potomac Local News
Crews clear some of the first trees at Triangle to make way for new High Occupancy Toll lanes on Interstate 95. (Virginia Department of Transportation)

Trees are already falling in the Triangle area where the High Occupancy Toll lanes are being extended nine miles south from Dumfries to Va. 610 in Stafford County.

From North Stafford to Edsall Road in Alexandria, the new lanes will be a part of what will be 29 miles of the new 95 Express Lanes that will allow drivers to pay a toll to avoid traffic or continue to ride free in vehicles of three or more.

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I-95 HOT Lanes Construction Underway

By Potomac Local News
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell joins elected officials in breaking ground for a new project that will add HOT lanes to Interstate 95. (Mary Davidson/PotomacLocal.com)

By URIAH KISER

DALE CITY, Va. — It’s going to take two years and about $1 billon, but the effort to put toll lanes on Interstate 95 in Virginia is underway.

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Stafford Expects Biggest ‘Night Out’ Yet

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Eileen Hutchinson, 5, wearing a cow hat, visits a clown at the National Night Out celebration Tuesday night at Stafford Marketplace. (Mary Davidson)

NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — An annual National Night Out celebration in North Stafford will be the biggest yet.

Starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, 69 businesses and organizations – including fire departments, the county’s sheriff’s office, retailers, and volunteers organizations like the Stafford County SPCA, will set up booths and tables at Stafford Marketplace on Va. 610.

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