From a press release:
Valentine’s Day Celebrations:
Dumfries
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WOODBRIDGE — Supervisor John Jenkins has asked for a study by the Prince William County Executive’s Office to look at the Board of County Supervisors members’ pay, which has been unchanged for 10 years. Jenkins would like to raise salaries to match those of the elected Supervisors in neighboring Fairfax County.
According to a recent email from the county executive’s office, the average compensation for Fairfax, Stafford, and Loudoun supervisors is $52, 233 per year, with the chairman’s salary averaging $57,167.
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WOODBRIDGE — Today, Wednesday, January 17th, 2018, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center officially unveiled a $2.6 million renovation of its Emergency Department.
Surrounded by doctors, nurses, members of the team and representatives from Prince William County’s EMS, hospital President Kathie Johnson helped cut the ribbon and usher in this new generation of emergency care at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center. The redesign and renovation of the 21,000-square-foot space features a revamp of patient rooms and storage areas, creating a clean, sleek, inviting space supporting streamlined services and exemplary patient care.
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We’re hearing from OmniRide that the March for Life on Friday will cause some of its buses to miss their stops.
From the transit agency:
“Be Ego Free” – the second part of the FreshySites Ethos.
This mantra flows seamlessly from the first component of our Ethos Serve the Customer.
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Here’s today’s OPM status.
Virginia transportation officials are telling commuters to plan to telework if they can ahead of a winter storm that could bring at least an inch of snow to the region, and throw a wrench into tomorrow morning’s commute.
From a press release:
VDOT tells us they were monitoring the snow all day Tuesday, and that it did not move into the region as soon as they anticipated.
When we spoke with Prince William County Residency Administrator Steven Shannon about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, he told us he had multiple trucks on standby, ready to load salt and go.
Police tell us they chased a man accused of hopping into an idling car in the early morning hours of Monday and stealing it, leading police on a chase through Triangle.
From a press release:
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With every new year come new inventions and discoveries, new risks and areas of opportunities. As even the most private and sensitive areas of our business and personal lives become digitized, new cybersecurity and IT threats arise. IT expert Chris Albright of CMIT Solutions of Centreville considers ransomware, IoT hacking, machine learning, and insufficient IT and cybersecurity to be the largest IT threats of 2018.
Globally, ransomware attacks grew by 56 percent in 2017, with the WannaCry attack being the largest of all time. Ransomware includes any kind of cyberattack in which a business or individual is required to pay a monetary fee in order to regain full access of their computer, breached data or Cloud. There is currently no way around regaining access without paying the ransom — and no guarantee that if you pay, the breached data won’t be compromised once paid. Most ransomware attacks are automated, so it is rare that you currently or will ever be able to determine who is behind your data or computer breach. Payments are often a few hundred dollars paid via cryptocurrency which is extremely difficult to track.