DUMFRIES, Va. — Environmentalists will work to bring back a stream on the brink.
Next fall, Prince William County plans to spend $2 million to restore Dewey’s Creek – a small stream that flows for about a mile from U.S. 1 in Woodbridge to Quantico Creek in Dumfries.
DUMFIRES, Va. — A Dumfries church will hold a walk to help families in need.
Image Church once again this year will hold I-Walk on Saturday at Merchant Park at Cameron and Duke Streets in Dumfries on Saturday. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the 2 and a quarter-mile walk will begin at 10 a.m.
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Crash – Fatality – On October 5th at 9:12PM, police responded to the 3600 block of Graham Park Rd in Triangle (22172) for a single vehicle crash involving a motorcycle.
The investigation revealed that the driver of a 2005 Honda VTX1800 was traveling eastbound on Graham Park Rd when the motorcycle left the roadway and struck support cables for a utility pole. The driver of the motorcycle was transported to an area hospital where he died. Alcohol and speed do not appear to be factors in this crash.
QUANTICO, Va. — Two helicopters were called this morning to fly two injured patients to a hospital following a crash.
The crashed happened in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 at Quantico at 8:21 a.m., said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A problem in Norfolk has found a solution in Prince William County.
The county’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed an ordinance that will guide leaders on how eminent domain – the taking of private lands for a public purposes — is used.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Prince William fire and rescue officials will sit on one side of the table and Dumfries-Triangle Rescue Squad leaders on the other.
That’s the way Prince William County Fire Department Chief Kevin McGee said a special taskforce assembled to review “internal organizational issues” at the Rescue Squad will conduct business. The review panel will be led by Dale City Volunteer Fire Department Chief Christopher Hool who will address Dumfries Chief Charles Derek Ester and Assistant Chief Steven Chasin.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Prince William County will bring back a numbers system to decide funding priorities for the fiscal 2014 budget.
Michelle Casciato with the county’s Office of Management and Budget told officials Tuesday her office use will a risk assessment system that will examine what programs and agencies are being funding now, how they relate to the core function of local government, and then assign each scores between four and 20.
