MANASSAS — The Shining Sol Candle Company announced plans to put candles in a major retailer and expand its candle-making operation in Manassas. The company struck a new deal with a home décor store Bed Bath & Beyond where customers will find Shining Sol candles at the company’s Pentagon City and Fair Lakes stores. Shining […]
MANASSAS — The Manassas city council on Monday night approved a special-use permit for Micron to build its expanded facility higher than the city’s current ordinances allow.
The council voted 5-1 to increase the city’s maximum building height from 75 feet to 120 feet in the case of Micron’s expansion.
MANASSAS — Prince William – Manassas Regional Adult Detention Center has begun Phase 2 of its expansion, with a projected completion in February of 2020 and occupancy to begin in March of that year.
Right now, Jail Superintendent Col. Peter Meletis said that they’re at the stage of bringing in “massive pieces of concrete.”
WOODBRIDGE — A public hearing on a proposal to add 325 new homes in Woodbridge is delayed thanks to a judge’s decision on an unrelated case.
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors sent a proposal for a new “Ray’s Regarde” subdivision to be located at the end of Horner Road adjacent to Prince William Parkway back to the Planning Commission.
STAFFORD– On October 2, Kyle Bates from the Virginia Department of Transportation updated the Stafford County Board of Supervisors on the highlights of current VDOT construction projects in the county.
Questions and concerns from the Board of Supervisors
LORTON — After a two-alarm fire shut down their facility in February of last year, Covanta Fairfax in Lorton has resumed operations.
The fire inside the waste-to-energy plant raged for nearly two weeks, and fire crews battled the blaze for just as long.
STAFFORD — During the Stafford Board of Supervisors’ meeting on October 2, the county’s director of public works Jason Towery updated the board on all the ongoing construction projects in the county.
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STAFFORD — There’s more water in Stafford than officials first thought.
The county’s planning and zoning director Jeff Harvey, Director told the board of Supervisors the county could support the construction of 6,500 new wells. Homes in the county draw from the Piedmont Aquifer, and last year county officials were concerned that aquifer was on the brink of running dry.
STAFFORD — Residents are speaking out after, a transgender student at Stafford Middle School was barred from using both boys and girls locker rooms during a lockdown drill in which a child was forced to sit in the bleachers alone.
It happened last week during a drill, which is common within Stafford County Public Schools. Two drills have taken place already this school year.
MANASSAS — The center of western Prince William County could soon become Downtown Manassas, as far as OmniRide is concerned.
The local bus service that recently changed its name from PRTC is eyeing more changes in the Manassas area and proposes relocating the central transfer point in the western portion of the county from Manassas Mall to the corner West Courthouse Road and Mosby Street, near the county’s courthouse.
