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OmniRide seeks public hearing on ending Route 51 Dumfries local for microtransit

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OmniRide won Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission authorization Thursday to start a public hearing and input process on eliminating Route 51 in Dumfries and redesigning Route 94 in Lake Ridge — not a final vote to cut or change service.

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A new name for VRE? Board hears marketing plan, 71% on-time rate and a $13 million budget gap

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A Virginia Railway Express train pulls into the Fredericksburg train station.
A Virginia Railway Express train pulls into the Fredericksburg train station. [Photo: Uriah Kiser/PLN]

Virginia Railway Express Operations Board members will spend Friday morning on the message as much as the trains.

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Stafford County Animal Shelter Closes Dog Adoption Floor After Confirmed Parvo Case

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Manassas

Old school gets a mural pitch as county preps the wrecking calendar, plans parking garage

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The vacant historic Bennett School building on the Prince William County courthouse campus in downtown Manassas
Bennett School at the Prince William County Judicial Center campus in Manassas. County staff on Sept. 9 said memorialization concepts, including possible imagery on the planned parking garage, will go to a public meeting targeted for November. Photo: Potomac Local News

Prince William County staff will take Bennett School memorialization concepts to a public meeting this fall, including graphics of how the 1908 building would be remembered in the existing Judicial Center or the proposed new courthouse.

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Manassas Planning Commission recommends Center Street garage-apartment rezoning with conditions

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Revised architectural rendering of the proposed Center Street apartments behind the light-blue Meredith House at Zebedee Street in Old Town Manassas
Revised Center Street massing looking from Zebedee Street toward the Meredith House. Penney Design Group presented this view to the Architectural Review Board on July 21, 2026. ARB considered form, scale, and massing on Aug. 13. Materials and colors shown are preliminary. This replaces the July 8 work-session rendering that first ran with this story.

The Manassas Planning Commission on Wednesday, Sept. 2, unanimously recommended approval of a rezoning for a five-story parking garage and apartments at 9007 Center Street. City Council still has to make the final approval.

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Brescia posts signed Manassas school board settlement on Facebook; board drops investigation, she dismisses FOIA case

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Sara Brescia, Manassas City School Board member. Courtesy campaign photo

School Board member Sara Jane Brescia on Thursday posted a one-page settlement to her school board member Facebook account showing the City of Manassas School Board agreed to withdraw and not start an investigation of her, restate limits on student transfers, and end the court fight she opened six weeks earlier.

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Manassas City schools drop AI-detection software after failed test; handbook sent back; Osbourn starts girls flag football

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A Manassas City Public Schools bus. Photo: Potomac Local file

Manassas City school staff told the School Board on Tuesday that software meant to catch AI-written student work failed a procurement test, and members then parked a draft School Board Handbook for more work sessions instead of moving it toward adoption.

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Fredericksburg moves factory-built houses onto regular lots, with data-center and parking rules in the same vote

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Row of gray factory-built manufactured homes with white porches and metal roofs along a gravel drive
Factory-built manufactured homes in a residential court. Fredericksburg City Council on Sept. 8, 2026, advanced on first read a zoning change that would treat certain HUD-code manufactured homes like site-built houses on individual lots in single-family districts. The historic district is not included. The city has no manufactured-home parks; this photo is a stock illustration, not a Fredericksburg site. Photo by Roger Starnes Sr. / Unsplash

Fredericksburg took a first step Tuesday toward letting factory-built manufactured homes sit on ordinary house lots, the same way a house framed on the site can.

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Chris Allen says sold-out Charles Street dinner funds Fredericksburg downtown year

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Podcast graphic of Uriah Kiser wearing headphones and Chris Allen over a night scene of an outdoor dinner on Charles Street in Fredericksburg, with text Sold Out on Charles St and $250 a plate funds the whole year
Uriah Kiser, left, talks with Fredericksburg Main Street executive director Chris Allen about A Downtown Affair, the sold-out $250-a-plate dinner on the 900 block of Charles Street. Potomac Local News Podcast graphic.

Fredericksburg Main Street’s signature fundraiser is sold out, and executive director Chris Allen says that one night on Charles Street is how the rest of the downtown year gets paid for.

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School board war ends in secret deal — no court, no dollars, no apology

By Uriah Kiser
Sara Brescia, Manassas City School Board member. Courtesy campaign photo

A public fight that began with accusations of a secret vote, an investigation of a sitting school board member, and a claim that colleagues discussed pulling her children from Baldwin Elementary ended Tuesday night in a closed-door settlement.

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