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Attempted Malicious Wounding | Brandishing a Firearm – On May 6 at 12:45AM, officers responded to the area of Clipper Dr and Tumbling Brook Ln in Woodbridge (22192) to investigate a possible fight. The investigation revealed that the victim, a 62-year-old man of Woodbridge, was parking his vehicle in the above area when he was approached by a vehicle being driven by an unknown female. During the encounter, the driver of the vehicle got out and began yelling threats at the victim. As the driver approached the victim, she brandished a machete at him. The victim fled the area and contacted police. The victim was able to provide responding officers with the license plate of the suspect’s vehicle. When officers arrived at the registered address of the vehicle, they located the accused and detained her without incident. Following the investigation, the accused, identified as Mannie BURTON, was arrested without incident.
Arrested on May 6:
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GAINESVILLE — After a former Reagan Middle School Principal was transferred following allegations of bullying, the way the school division announced the move has now sparked as much or more controversy as the original bullying allegations.
Alfie Turner, a Prince William County school administrator whose worked at Coles Elementary, Potomac Middle, and most recently Reagan Middle School was reassigned to public schools headquarters in the human rescues office the following staff and parent and teacher allegations that she bullied them.
Parents and teachers have praised the move, and elected officials appear to also support it. The reassignment was announced in a letter by Bill Bixby, a Prince William schools associate superintendent, stated parents and teachers banned together and used the power of social media and the news media to oust the principal because they were resistant to change.
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MANASSAS — Thousands packed the Manassas Regional Airport on Saturday for the Leaseweb Manassas Air Show 2018.
The show ran from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. and featured bi-planes, formation fliers, and the world’s only privately owned Sea Harrier Jet that stole the show when the plane took a bow for the crowded pack on the tarmac.
During ribbon-cutting demonstration, pilot Clemens Kuhlig flew the Pitts S1S biplane he built in his garage in 2013 over the runway at Manassas Airport where multiple people stood hooding up two poles with a ribbon attached to each mast.
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MANASSAS -- Bike racks could be coming to the Manassas Virginia Railway Express station.
Monies from the Interstate 66 E-ZPass Express Lanes’ Commuter Choice program, a total of $55,000, will be used to install bicycle shelters, 10 bike lockers and a repair station at the Manassas train station in Downtown. The Northern Virginia Transportation Commission approved the funds at its meeting Thursday night in Arlington.
The project is one of 15 the was funded by the Commuter Choice program, which is designed to enhance transit in the region to take more drivers off the road to make room for toll-paying drivers who opt to the I-66 toll lanes inside the Capital Beltway.
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MANASSAS -- The pilots and their planes are warming up for tomorrow's annual Manassas Air Show at the Manassas Regional Airport.
This year, the show has a new corporate sponsor and is slated to be bigger than in year's past.
The show is free and runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 5. A rain date is scheduled for the following day.
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STAFFORD — At first, Stafford officials thought they couldn’t build a new $71 million courthouse on the same side of the street as the existing facility.
Officials knew they didn’t have enough room to build adequate parking spaces for the building and then began to look at 32 acres of county-owned property across Courthouse Road as a potential site for the new building.
But things have changed, and at a May 1 meeting of the county’s infrastructure committee, leaders were briefed on a plan to build the structure on the same side of the road as the current courthouse. This is possible now because of a plan to build a mixed-use center that would include parking for a variety of different uses, like retail, office, and Stafford County Government buildings.
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WOODBRIDGE -- Full commuter parking lots in western Prince William County won't be a problem for would-be transit bus riders for much longer.
A new $1.1 million program that will allow bus riders to hail an Uber-like ride from their homes to commuter lots in Haymarket and Gainesville was funded Thursday night. The plan — let users hail the rides from their phones, just as they would any other ride-sharing service.
The project, dubbed the On Demand Commuter Shuttle, will fund the implementation of new software that will power the service. Local transit provider OmniRide will provide the service, and was the applicant for the grant.
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In this episode of the Potomac Local Podcast, I talk with OmniRide Executive Director Bob Schneider about the transit agency’s new look, how it is overcoming internal struggles in its organization, and a new service that will operate more like Uber than a transit bus.
We recorded this podcast at the OmniRide Transit Center, home of the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission in Woodbridge, on Monday, April 30, 2018.
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MANASSAS -- The proposed rate in the fiscal year 2019 Manassas budget is about 2.6 percent higher than last year.
That means residents and business will most likely be paying more next year once the city council approves the budget May 14.
So, whats with the tax-rate increase this year, especially after the city council hiked taxes last year to pay for capital projects like new fire and police stations, and the remake of Grant Avenue near Downtown?
