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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — The dedication of a new elementary school was a celebration of community and racial unity.
Residents, teachers, school administrators, and elected officials gathered Thursday, Aug. 24 for the ribbon cutting ceremony for Covington-Harper Elementary School.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A plan to develop 400 homes and a new mixed-use community on an old dairy farm outside Manassas is moving forward.
The houses would sit on Kline Farm, a 100-acre tract of land in Prince William County that abutts Manassas City, where Prince William Parkway meets Wellington Road and Liberia Avenues. Homes, offices, and retail shops would replace the old grain silos that stand on the property today.
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STAFFORD — A Dumfries man was struck and killed on Route 1.
Stafford County authorities said 44-year-old Lamont Williams after he and his fiance returned a rental truck to a business at Boswell’s Corner, at the intersection of Route 1 and Telegraph Road in North Stafford.
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MANASSAS — After he was done caring for pets for the Washington Redskins, he and his wife opened the only veterinarian office in Downtown Manassas.
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MANASSAS — Heritage Brewing Company will be the center at the largest development in Manassas history.
The four-year-old brewery will expand from its current ocation on Center Point Lane behind the old Georator Corporation building to a new mixed use development on Gateway Drive behind the DMV called the Landing at Cannon Branch.
MANASSAS — Manassas City Councilman Ian Lovejoy wants to help businesses recoup lost revenue this upcoming weekend.
City officials on Aug. 18 canceled the annual Civil War Weekend, a three-day living history event filled with re-enactors, out of an abundance of caution following deadly protests in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. Lovejoy said he’s now working city promoter Historic Manassas, Inc. (HMI) to make a “quick and dirty” First Friday-like pop-up event scheduled for this Friday, Aug. 25.
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STAFFORD — Stafford officials will turn to the federal government to verify the spellings, ranks, and status of the names listed on commemorative bricks at the county’s newly minted veterans memorial.
The move comes after Stafford County attorney Jason Pelt said he found 52 of the over 60 bricks contain errors such as misspelled names, wrong ranks, inaccurate time periods of military service, and some that were wrongly listed as killed in action (KIA).