Manassas leaders are looking at the Mathis Avenue corridor as the city’s next big activity center.
Currently home to a strip shopping mall, the city is picturing what that part of town, just outside downtown, might look like in the next 20 years.
After it was first heard in December 2018, it wasn’t until May 28 that the Non-Discrimination Policy appeared on the Board Agenda as an information item. Then again at the next meeting, the policy appeared under information.
“I see delays after delays, and I’m not really sure why it’s been on for information twice,” Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner said to Falmouth District Supervisor Sarah Chase on June 8 in documents obtained by the Potomac Local in a Freedom of Information Act Order.
That free-roaming bear was spotted during the late morning hours on Friday, forcing the Forest Park High School administration to keep students inside the building and to hold after-school activities indoors.
The school, located near Montclair, kept students were kept inside, but those who needed to come and go were could do as necessary.
After Stafford County Schools Superintendent Dr. Scott Kizner’s initial transgender student proposal in December 2018, the policy drew highly polarized and split opinions.
A total of 51% of emails sent to Board members regarding this issue advocated against the Gender Identity and Expression Policy while 41% of resident emails argued for the passage of such policy according to documents gathered by the Potomac Local in a Freedom of Information Act Order.
As Virginia studies how to improve Interstate 95, Prince William County and OmniRide are also looking at how to improve six commuter lots along the highway.
The commuter lots toured:
OmniRide officials admitted the organization was caught “flat-footed” during a driver strike in early August.
OmniRide Executive Director Dr. Bob Schneider told his Board of Commissioners that the agency received assurances from the union about 11 days before the strike that there wouldn’t one.
Manassas firefighters won’t have to share breathing units when battling smoke and fire inside city homes and buildings.
A new $332,500 federal grant announced by Virginia Senator Tim Kaine will go to fund the purchase of new Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) for the city’s entire fire and rescue system.
That money is cash seized from drug busts, commonly referred to as asset forfeiture funds. Prince William County has just over one million seized drug dollars in the bank.
The Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan to use about $400,000 to pay some 40 or current and retired police officers who worked between June 2014 and December 2018.
Joe Buchanan was hired to oversee about 30 employees that work at the landfill, which takes trash and recycling from Stafford County and Fredericksburg City.
He’s got 20 years of experience of working in the solid waste industry, most recently working as President of Freedom Waste Service in Kentucky, a residential and commercial trash hauler.
Advocates for the county’s newest zombie road, an extension of Van Buren Road, want the $70 million road project approved by next year.
Members of “Van Buren Now,” a citizen group organized on Facebook and represented at Tuesday’s Prince William Board of County Supervisors by Montclair resident Heather Paige, aims to put pressure on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to extend Van Buren Road from Route 234 near Interstate 95 in Dumfries east to Benita Fitzgerald and Cardinal drives in Dale City.
