Volunteer Opportunities in the Area
· Good morning – Ho, Ho, Ho – the holidays are right around the corner and the Salvation Army is looking for volunteers to ring the bell at various stores throughout the community. Come as a single volunteer for a 2 hour shift or bring your friends and colleagues to adopt a day a particular store. The Red Kettle program runs from November 9th – December 24th and is very important to their work. Please call Catie at (571) 580-8995 to learn more.
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Police initially said the suspected robber fled the scene in a silver Hyundai, but an updated statement from police noted the man in the robbery fled on foot.
HAYMARKET, Va. — Jay Tobias, Haymarket’s vice mayor, was censured and is now forced to pay a $250 fine for alleged misconduct stemming from public intoxication charges filed on the day of the town’s largest public celebration.
Town officials Monday voted 4-3 to force Tobias to pay the fine on our before Oct. 21. Officials also censured Planning Commission and former Town Council member Robert Wier after Mayor David Leake pressed charges on him, claiming he was standing on a public street in mid conversation when Wier walked up to him and began cursing at him.
STAFFORD, Va. — The nasty round of rainy weather has forced Brooke Point High School Homecoming football game to to be plated tomorrow on an artificial turf field at Potomac Senior High School in Woodbridge.
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They say they’re going to clog Washington area traffic for three days starting today. They say they have demands for leaders in Washington, including a mandate that states the president must leave office.
We know many of them have 18 wheels on their trucks. But will they use them to tie up your morning commute?
There are new changes in the times the HOV lanes on Interstate 95 and 395 on weekday mornings.
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InsideNova.com — Prince William extends property tax deadline
Those who haven’t yet paid their personal property taxes – also known as car taxes – are in luck. Thanks to the partial government shutdown, and some sympathetic Prince William County officials, the deadline to pay has been extended to Nov. 21.
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A fire ripped through the garage of a home in Woodbridge last night.
DUMFRIES, Va. — If U.S. 1 is going to be widened in Dumfries, Prince William County officials will not have anything to do with it.
County Executive Melissa Peacor sent an email stating her county’s government has no interest in managing the $1.6 million project for initial survey work and right of way cost to expand a 2-mile section of the heavily traveled north-south commuter route from Brady’s Hill Road to Wayside Drive, near a Walmart store.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — It’s raining, it’s pouring, and the work to repave Staffordboro Boulevard ahead of a project to add 1,000 new commuter parking spaces to at adjacent Staffordboro commuter lot next to Stafford Marketplace mall is postponed.
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