The Manassas City Council Equity and Inclusion Task Force will head out into the community series of listening sessions beginning March 1.

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Stafford County is considering giving pay raises to teachers and staff.

The county School Board met Tuesday and heard a presentation from Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner’s the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2021-22. If approved by the School Board, the schools’ budget will increase 5.25% by $16.9 million, bringing the total funding to $340 million.


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The remainder of Prince William County’s public school children who haven’t set foot in a classroom in nearly a year may do so later this month.

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Woodbridge is on track to get a new high school.  

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Stafford leaders hope to invest $1.3 million to improve a street in hopes of landing an international shipping firm.

The Stafford County Board of Supervisors approved a grant application submitted to the state’s Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund to improve Wyche Road.


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Falun Gong practitioners had their voices heard as they work to raise awareness of forced organ harvesting in China.

Two practitioners of Falun Gong–a religious movement founded in China in the 1990s and now banned by the country’s government, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spoke at the Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday.


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The situation at the Stafford Volunteer Fire Department is in the gutter.

The county will spend $33,000 to address water leaking into the building from the gutters on the building, located at 305 Mooney Drive, near the Stafford County Public Safety Center on Courthouse Road, designed to whisk water away from the structure.


Heart disease and stroke cause one in three deaths among women each year – that’s more than all cancers combined.

Diet and exercise are known to make a difference, that’s why Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center is hosting Sentara Go Red Virtual Luncheon with FIT4MOM. Shannon Link, a certified instructor and owner of FIT4MOM Lorton, has been helping new moms get active for years.


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