DALE CITY — Will a new Starbucks be built at Cheshire Station?
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors will decide on Tuesday. If approved, the new chain coffee house will be built across from a Safeway grocery store in the existing Cheshire Station shopping center at the intersection of Minnieville Road and Dale Boulevard.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Prince William County’s next batch of trailer classrooms will come from North Carolina.
The school division this week approved a new contract with Modular Technologies, of Kinston, N.C. for the future acquisition of trailer, or modular classrooms, as the division calls them.
MANASSAS — City leaders have a green light for a plan to build a new fire station on Dumfries Road.
The Manassas Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the use of nearly four acres of land for the city’s new Fire Station 21. The station will be located at 10224 Dumfries Road, just south of Hastings Drive, on land currently zoned for commercial use.
MANASSAS PARK — Extending Godwin Drive across the Bull Run River into Fairfax County is shaping up to be the most popular idea to relieve congestion on Route 28.
But some residents question whether four-and-a-half mile road, with and its nearly $200 million price tag, will do anything for congestion relief on Route 28 in Manassas.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A new brewery located in Yorkshire will invite commuters to pull out of traffic and get into a tasting room.
Eavesdrop Brewery will offer a taste of rural Virginia just outside Manassas, serving farm-brewed beer made with ingredients sourced from the farm where it was brewed.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — The first school board meeting of the new school year in Prince William County and, already, there is more infighting among those elected to lead.
The county School Board on Wednesday night spent the better part of an hour debating whether or not it should allow School Board Attorney Mary McGowan to keep her seat alongside School Board members on the dais during public meetings.
WOODBRIDGE — A proposal to rename Route 1 in Woodbridge would end up costing small business owners.
Woodbridge District Supervisor Frank Principi on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that would, in part, rename Jefferson Davis Highway in eastern Prince William County, the road named after the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
STAFFORD — Dog owners in Stafford County get a break.
Instead of purchasing an annual dog license for $10, residents may now purchase a lifetime license for Fido.
MANASSAS PARK — Though a dinosaur, the Tri-County Parkway remains in Prince William County’s Comprehensive Plan — for now.
The road has been talked about for more than 12 years and will probably never be built.
