It’s Virginia Restaurant Takeout Week, and restaurants in the state are reeling due to lack of business following the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Gov. Ralph Northam has limited the number of people who can be inside a restaurant at one time to 10 people, so customers this week are encouraged to call ahead to their favorite restaurant and order out.
Two former Woodbridge residents, and six others on a humanitarian mission to Honduras, have no means of returning home to the U.S.
The two are members of an eight-person mission team was due to fly home Tuesday, March 17, 2020. But that flight was canceled after Houndoruan officials closed the country’s borders due to coronavirus.
A shopping destination for people who live across the Mid-Atlantic temporarily closed today.
Potomac Mills mall in Woodbridge announced it would close today at 7 p.m. and would remain shuttered at least through March 27 29.
A woman from Woodbridge is now a million-dollar winner.
Jacquelyn Lombos was driving with a friend from her home in Woodbridge to Hampton Roads. About halfway there, they stopped at a gas station in Henrico County, and while she was there, bought a Millionaire Maker Scratcher ticket.
Virginia First Lady Pamela Northam recently visited Marumsco Hills Elementary School to show her support of early childhood programs. Northam visited the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) classroom of Andrea Gillespie and read the book, “Are You Ready for Spring?” to the students.
“We are so thrilled to be here in Prince William County,” Northam said. “We’re so appreciative of the innovative work you all are doing combining local, state and federal funding to do this incredible work for early childhood. We really want to see the rest of the Commonwealth doing a great job as they are doing here in this school we saw today.”
Police were called to the Kensington Place Apartments, in the 2200 block of York Drive in Woodbridge on Saturday, March 7 at 6:57 a.m. for a report of a domestic disturbance.
When officers arrived, they found evidence of an altercation that happened outside one of the apartments. However, the officers didn’t see anyone in the area.
Senator Tim Kaine will be in Woodbridge on Monday hosting a roundtable meeting where he is expected to share what he learned about hurricane and earthquake recovery efforts during his visit to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In San Juan, Kaine viewed repairs and remaining infrastructure needs following Hurricanes Irma and Maria and was briefed on disaster relief efforts following the devastating earthquakes that have left many Puerto Ricans without safe housing.
There’s a new Board of County Supervisors in Prince William, and some elected leaders on the public body are looking for ways to serve more people outside of regular meeting dates and times.
Supervisors have been talking about holding more evening sessions so that commuters might have the opportunity to come and speak on an issue. Occoquan District Supervisor Kenny Boddye has also suggested meetings to be held on Saturdays, something that is unheard of in Prince William County but commonplace for the Arlington County Board, which holds its regular meetings at 8:30 a.m.
The brutal murder of Glenda Marisol Coca-Romero still haunts investigators.
The 21-year-old woman was shot and killed during a robbery inside the Platanillos Grocery store on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. She was working her shift when the shooter came into the store.
Police filed charges after a sexual assault that was reported at Woodbridge Middle School.
A police officer assigned to the school after a 13-year-old female student told the officer she was assaulted on a school bus on the afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. She said another male student touched her inappropriately while they were both riding the school bus, Prince Willian police said.
