Meg Ryan has chosen Virginia to make a film that will tell a coming-of-age story set in World War II.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced the film, “Ithaca,” which is based on the 1943 novel “The Human Comedy” that chronicles the challenges of growing up during wartime, will be shot in the state. The film will star Sam Shepard and Ryan’s son, Jack Quaid. Ryan will also direct and play role in the film.
Both law enforcement officers were called to a barricade situation last year in Spotsylvania County where an armed man barricaded himself in his home. One Stafford sheriff’s deputy was shot and later recovered. Department officials declined to tell Potomac Local News the name of the deputy who was shot.
Jacobs and Robey were honored along with 43 others at a recent department award ceremony in Stafford County.
Several students at Northern Virginia Community College in Manassas traveled to Anaheim, Calif. and won the VEX Robotics World Championship.
Here’s more in a press release from the college:
They’ll hold the title for the next two years, and they were selected for a group of 14 writers who were all vying for the distinction.
“According to the 11-member selection panel, both candidates simply blew them away with their individual creative strengths. For Dr. Scott, it was the project he proposed: using a website, a series of community seminars and a great deal of pavement pounding, Dr. Scott plans to encourage budding and seasoned Prince William poets to submit poems for inclusion into a permanent “10,000 poem exhibit,” a press release stated.
MANASSAS PARK, Va. — It hasn’t gone to the dogs yet, but Manassas Park has made it into the finals in a competition to receive a newly constructed dog park.
The city located inside Prince William County is a participant in the “Bark for Your Park” contest where $100,000 is up for grabs for construction of a new park. PetSafe is sponsoring the contest, and that’s where you can go vote to help the city win.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — A new Virginia Railway Express station in Prince William County, and improvements to two stations in Stafford County are coming thanks, in part, to a private developer building the Potomac Shores neighborhood near Dumfries.
Sgt. Ed Owens and Battalion Chief Bart Lace of Stafford County Fire and Rescue instruct technicians Darren Hendricks, Tyler Lamond and Daniel Paul in water rescue techniques at the Aquia Harbour swimming pool on June 2, 2014. Sgt. Aubrey McDowell plays the part of the drowning victim.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — When he started breaking things and taking off his clothes, police said that’s when the 911 caller picked up the phone.
A man was taken into custody about 6:15 a.m. Sunday outside a home on Mountain View Road in Stafford County. The suspect came to the house and began yelling frantically at those inside.
A youth football camp held by the NFL’s Ahmad Brooks, a C.D. Hylton High School graduate from Woodbridge, is just one of the many events happening in our area this weekend.
Foreigner, Styx: The Soundtrack of Summer Tour with Don Felder — Friday
UPDATED — Fire officials in Prince William County say the fire at a home on Bradley Forest Road early Tuesday morning was caused by a lightning strike.
Here’s the latest information in a press release:
