If you had lived in the center of the City of Berlin fifty years ago this month you would have been awakened by the sound of construction equipment and workmen building a wall.
But this would not be an ordinary wall built to protect someone’s garden from rabbits or deer. This wall was built to keep people in and it would become one of the most visible manifestations of tyrannical cruelty ever erected in the modern world.
When remembering Jenny Vaughn-Bates was killed by her estranged husband last September, her friend, Tracy Lane, has to shut down her emotions.
Maybe I’m Confused.
Annual Yearly Progress results are out for 2011-2012. You can see my story on Stafford County’s results here which explains that Annual Yearly Progress, or AYP, is the standards schools need to meet in order to be certified under No Child Left Behind.
H&I Electronics at 18805 Fuller Heights Road will take your old TV set for free when dropped off at their store.
Old TV sets are part of a growing e-waste problem in the U.S., where more than 65 million pounds of old electronics have been recycled since 2008. Older cathode ray tube TV sets contain lead, hexavalent chromium and mercury, and EPA officials urges residents to recycle them rather than tossing them out.
Story and photos by: Marty van Duyne
For PotomacLocal.com
The GEICO Gecko was rocking out to the tunes coming from the stage at the Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair on Friday night.
This week brought the terrible news from Afghanistan that 30 American and seven Afghan service members, along with their Afghan interpreter, had perished when their Chinook helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The dead included members of Army, Air Force and Navy special operations units, with 22 of them being from SEAL Team 6, the unit credited with killing Osama bin Laden.
They were on their way to support a unit of Army Rangers that were engaging the Taliban in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan’s Wardak Province.
Woodbridge, Va. — If there is one person who has grown with the new Potomac Communities, it’s Carlos Castro.
Castro opened the first Todos Supermarket in Woodbridge more than 20-years ago, catering to a growing Hispanic population.
Several events are taking place this afternoon and weekend at Leesylvania State Park in Woodbridge.
Dino Days
Date: Friday, August 5, 2011
The Greater Prince William Community Health Center in Woodbridge will celebrate National Community Health Center Week with free screenings and health seminars.
Info about all of the activities can be found by clicking here.
Police Chief Charlie T. Deane is pleased announce the following promotions of sworn staff:
First Sergeant Javid C. Elahi to Lieutenant
