When Virginia’s Department of Rail and Public Transportation announced two new routes for its popular Breeze inter-city bus service, the first thing I noticed was a dot on a map noting a potential new bus stop in Gainesville.
Since the Virginia Breeze launched two years ago offering service from Blacksburg to Washington, D.C., there have been no stops in Prince Willliam County.
More than 2,000 people packed the Stafford County Government Center on Courthouse Road on Tuesday night.
The majority of them urged the county’s Board of Supervisors to pass a resolution declaring Stafford a county that would uphold a key freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights — the right to bear arms.
Manassas residents lined up to speak in favor of Carmello’s and Mozna, two restaurants of the same owner in Downtown Manassas that came under fire late last month for improvements it made to its building.
A petition with at least 300 signatures of city residents was presented to the city council on December 9. It urged leaders to reverse the council’s decision to require the restaurant to change the color of its brick facade on the front of the restaurant from a Mediterianian-style white to red brick, to match the other buildings in the downtown area.
The Prince William Public Libary unveiled its new logo today in an email press release listing upcoming January events at the libraries.
The new logo uses the same font as the newly adopted logo for the Prince William County, Virginia Government logo, which is now shown prominently on water towers and signs at county government buildings. Library spokeswoman Rachel Johnson tells me:
Stafford County held a two-day training for artists who could use an education in the art of business.
The training was provided by the Clark Huling Fund for the Visual Arts, which is based in Albuquerque, N.M. and was founded to provide training for those in the fine arts entrepreneurship skills to sell their work and grow their businesses. A press release states:
Last week, Prince William and Spotsylvania counties. On Tuesday, Stafford?
The county Board of Supervisors will take up the question of whether or not to become a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary (2A), where the right to bear arms as enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights is upheld. A public hearing will be held in the Board Chambers at 7 p.m. at 1300 Courthouse Road in Stafford.
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The city says the pending lawsuit has temporarily halted plans to move the auction block to the Fredericksburg Area Museum.
If the number absentee voters are the barometer, Stafford County is changing.
And now county leaders are looking at changing the county code to permit the relocation of the General Registrar’s office from the central government center to a new, yet-to-be-determined location. It’s where new residents register to vote and is where absentee ballots are cast.
Sheriff Glen Hill stood with his deputies on Friday night the Prince William County courthouse where all were sworn-in for another four-year term.
It marks Hill’s fifth term as county sheriff. He was first elected in 2003, replacing Lee Stoffregen who had clashed with the county’s police department during his tenure. Before he was sheriff, Hill worked at the jail, and was a Manassas police officer. His time in the community dates back to the late 1960s when he was discharged from the Army and his post at Vint Hill, and chose to continue to live in Manassas.
After eight years of delay, there’s been some movement on developer Mark Granville Smith’s next housing development.
Prince William County officials this month initiated an amendment of the county comprehensive land-use plan that calls for the rezoning of 346 acres of land near Classic Springs Drive and Counselor Road, near Colgan High School on Route 234, from agricultural to semi-rural residential, and parkland.
