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MANASSAS — There’s one thing Morgan Welch did before her child won the Prince William County Fair Baby Contest.
A tornado touched down on Friday near the Prince William County line.
The wind storm measured EF-0 and was on the ground for two minutes between 6:08 and 6:10 p.m. Friday, August 11. It cut a path of damage about a mile long, 100 yards wide at Broad Run in Fauquier County near the Chapman Mill Historic Site.
MANASSAS — Enrico Pelausa is a millionaire.
The Manassas Park man won the cash after he purchased a winning Virginia Lottery Ticket at the In and Out Mart at 9103 Mathis Avenue in Manassas for the July 8 Powerball drawing.
Editors note: This is the first in a series of two stories about Betty Covington and John Harper, for which Covington-Harper Elementary School is named.
Betty Covington is looking forward to the opening of a new elementary school that will bear her name.
A source tells Potomac Local a replacement for Laquan Austion could be Jeffery Dove, who is now running for congress.
Austion today dropped out of Virginia’s Hosue District 2 race in Prince William and Stafford counties. Dove is running against Democrat Gerry Connolly (D-11 Fairfax, Prince William) who has held the job since 2009.
STAFFORD — Republicans in Stafford and Prince William counties are looking for a new candidate for House District 2.
Laquan Austion dropped out.
DUMFRIES — Dumfries residents have until September 3 to pay their unpaid parking tickets without facing additional fines.
An ordinance passed unanimously this month by the town council allows police to tow or install a boot on any vehicle that has three or more unpaid parking tickets. It also allows police to tow a vehicle or semi-trailer that has been idle for 10 days sitting private or public property, without the consent of the vehicle or property owner.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A new fire station will be built next to the Coles District Fire and Rescue Department.
A groundbreaking for the 21,400 square-foot replacement fire and rescue station on Route 234 on 13712 Dumfries Road near Independent Hill will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 14. When it opens, the new station will house a heavy rescue, tanker, a basic life-support ambulance, and a truck to battle brush fires.
WOODBRIDGE — A voter office in Woodbridge could once again be headed for the chopping block.
The Prince William County Electoral Board is prepared to be hit once more with rent fees from the Virginia DMV.
