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10th District candidates meet Oct. 15 in Manassas

By PLN News
The Prince William Committee of 100 and the League of Women Voters will hold a 10th District forum Oct. 15. Photo: Prince William Committee of 100

The Prince William Committee of 100 and the League of Women Voters of the Prince William and Fauquier Area will hold the forum Thursday, Oct. 15, the committee said. Doors open at 6 p.m. The forum runs 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. at the Manassas Community Center, 8750 Sudley Road. The flyer names Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, the Democrat from Ashburn, and Dave Beckwith, the Republican from Sterling. Bruce Potter, publisher of InsideNoVa, is the moderator. The event is free, open to the public, and does not require registration. Seating is limited.

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Manassas candidates meet Sunday at the museum

By PLN News
[Courtesy of the City of Manassas]

 

The Manassas Journal will hold the forum Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Manassas Museum, 9101 Prince William St., the Journal said. Arrive by 3:45 p.m. City Council candidates are set for 4 to 5:30 p.m., School Board from 6 to 7 p.m., and House of Delegates District 20 from 7 to 7:30 p.m. It runs until 8 p.m. and is open as capacity allows. Questions go to [email protected] by 5 p.m. today. The Journal has not named who is coming.

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Prince William

Eight Unity Reed students were hospitalized after an ROTC field day

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A back-to-school festival held at Unity Reed High School near Manassas. [Photo: Prince William County Community Foundation]

Eight students were taken to the hospital for dehydration Friday after an ROTC field day at Unity Reed High School, FOX 5 reported. Nine students were treated. The school was on a short hold, then the hold was lifted. Dismissal ran late. Principal Milagros Vélez told families the school is in contact with the families of the students.

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Manassas

Manassas mayor seat is open. Greene says fill it with someone off the ballot

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Uriah Kiser and Lynn Forkell Greene on the Potomac Local News Podcast in front of Manassas City Hall with text Who Gets the Gavel Oct. 5 Special Meeting
Photo: Potomac Local News Podcast graphic — Uriah Kiser, left, talks with former Manassas City Council member Lynn Forkell Greene about the vacant mayor’s seat. Potomac Local News Podcast graphic.

Michelle Davis-Younger’s last Manassas City Council meeting is in the books.

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Two dead after United Rentals shooting; suspect dies on Interstate 81

By PLN News
Marvin Grant
Marvin Grant. Photo from Manassas City Police Department.

Manassas City Police said two men died and a third was in stable condition after a shooting Wednesday morning at United Rentals, 9415 Wellington Road. The joint release with Virginia State Police named the dead as Ricky Lamot, 48, and Christopher Serrano, 33. Police said Marvin Grant, 37, of Charlotte, N.C., an employee, fled in a silver Toyota Camry before officers arrived at 7:14 a.m. Virginia State Police said Grant died after a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a stop on Interstate 81 in Augusta County.

The afternoon release contradicts Chief Douglas W. Keen’s morning briefing, which said all three workers were in critical condition and that Grant was still being sought after leaving Northern Virginia. The release does not name the hospitals Keen gave. The morning alert described a gray Camry or Corolla. The release says the car was silver. Motive was not given. Tips go to Detective Speights at 703-257-8041, Detective Dranko at 703-257-8046, or Crime Solvers at 703-330-0330.

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House of Mercy launches $350,000 Room for Mercy campaign

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Four people stand at the House of Mercy food pantry doors under the 8154 address, holding school-supply donations next to a labeled FOOD PANTRY sign.

House of Mercy, Prince William County’s largest food pantry, launched a $350,000 “Room for Mercy” campaign Tuesday to lease 4,500 square feet of adjacent space in Manassas after warehouse storage shrank this summer. The Manassas nonprofit says the 30-day drive ends Oct. 31 and would restore thrift-store floor space now used for overflow, protect Christmas with Mercy gifts for more than 1,300 children, and let the pantry become a client-choice market.

House of Mercy Launches Urgent $350,000 Campaign to Solve Storage Crisis and Launch Full-Choice Pantry

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Manassas nonprofit delivers $92,964 for Nepal flood relief

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America Nepal Helping Society, a Manassas nonprofit founded in 2008, says it raised and delivered $92,964 from 167 donors for flood and landslide relief in Nepal’s Rasuwa–Bhotekoshi region. A Virginia delegation presented the check to Nepal’s government in New York during a meeting with Foreign Minister Shishir Khanal at a program hosted by the Consulate General of Nepal, the group said in a press release forwarded Sunday by Sen. Danica Roem.

America Nepal Helping Society in Virginia Raises $92,964 for Nepal Flood and Landslide Relief

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Sara Brescia says Manassas board dropped the probe with no apology

By PLN News and Potomac Local News
Podcast graphic of Uriah Kiser wearing headphones and Sara Brescia over a Manassas school board dais, with text Settled. No apology. Board dropped the Brescia probe
Uriah Kiser, left, talks with Manassas City School Board member Sara Brescia about the settlement that ended her lawsuit against the board. Potomac Local News Podcast graphic.

Manassas City School Board member Sara Brescia sued the board she sits on.

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Opinion

Letter: Manassas resident questions leadership after First Friday cancellation

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Manassas officials canceled October’s First Friday after a downtown killing. The letter below is from Dan Maillard of Manassas. The views are the writer’s.

Although happy to see that the City of Manassas has some shred of dignity left, per usual, it seems not enough. I am speaking of the terrible death of Ashley, but worse, the seemingly lost leadership of this town and even the Commonwealth.

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Parents press school boards on a cut bus stop, Kindles and volunteer coaches

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Yellow school bus facing the camera with SCHOOL BUS on the header and no district name visible
A school bus. Photo: Potomac Local file

Two parents and one student used citizen comment at the Prince William County School Board on Sept. 2. A Manassas parent-coach used his three minutes on Sept. 8.

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