Prince William County Public Schools granted the Gainesville mother of three children ages 6, 8, and 10 a religious exemption to its mandator mask policy. However, things changed Monday, January 31, when her school principal said the children would now need to wear masks.
“I’m not exactly sure why it was only my children, because I do know that there were other children in the school with medical exemptions and other religious exemptions that were not pulled out,” Ballard told Potomac Local.
A man filled his cart with goods from a Home Depot Store in Woodbridge, pushed a store employee to the ground, and strolled out.
At 5:36 p.m. Wednesday, February, officers were called to the home improvement store at 14025 Foulger Square in Woodbridge, near Kohls, to investigate a robbery.
It’s not your father’s self-storage place.
Texas-based Greenspace will soon make its way to Stafford County while bringing unique ideas to market.
Stafford’s pleas for help ignored: According to internal emails, a Stafford County administrator begged for the National Guard’s help but the request was ignored. [WRIC-TV]
Swap your SmarTrip card: Metro is upgrading their faregates systemwide and OmniRide will be upgrading fareboxes on the Express buses in the fall. [Press release]
A 13-year-old girl was repeatedly sexually assaulted in a Dale City home last year, police said.
On December 29, 2021, detectives with the Prince William police Special Victims Bureau began investigating sexual assaults between July 1 and August 31, 2021.
The mandate is not supported by science, not supported by the majority of parents, the kids absolutely hate it, and the teachers are put in a bad position. We can go in most any establishment without facing a mask mandate.
As soon as our kids get out of school the masks come off, they play sports and other games together, and the masks do not go back on until they walk through the school doors the next day. What’s wrong with this picture?
After authorities found two malnourished dogs on death’s doorstep, a Stafford County couple faces animal cruelty charges.
On January 25 at 1:30 p.m., Stafford Deputy O.J. Hepperle responded to a townhome in England Run for a welfare check of a dog. She located a six-year-old mixed-breed medium-sized dog named Gracie that was extremely skinny.
Congresswoman weighs in: U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton has penned a letter to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors outlining her concerns about the potential “negative impact” of allowing 2,100 acres near Manassas National Battlefield Park to be replanned for data centers. [Prince William Times]
Universities drop vax mandates: At least four universities — Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and George Mason — announced Monday they had ended their student vaccine requirements, in light of an opinion released Friday by Attorney General Jason Miyares saying they weren’t legally entitled to. [Richmond Times-Dispatch]
One person suffered life-threatening burns during house fire today in Woodbridge.
At 11:24 a.m., fire and rescue units were dispatched to the 4000 block of Montega Drive for a report of a house fire with an occupant inside.
