By CHARLIE GRYMES
PRINCE WILLIAM CONSERVATION ALLIANCE CHAIRMAN
A starfish opens a clam by attacking its “feet” to the shell, then pulling steadily until the clam finally tires and the starfish succeeds in getting a meal.
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Woodbridge
Today is the day C.D. Hylton High School football standout E.J. Levenberry will play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl on national TV.
The game will be seen at 1 p.m. today on NBC (channel 4 in the Washington area, channel 12 in the Richmond area) and it features 90 of the best high school athletes in the country.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A window was shot out at R. Dean Kilby Elementary School over the weekend.
School officials said the shooting happened sometime between Friday night and early Saturday.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Better late than never. A Woodbridge couple welcomed the first baby of 2013 born at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center.
The child was born the Woodbridge hospital not on New Year’s Day, but today.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Volunteers at Leesylvania State Park are putting together care packages for soldiers in honor of the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
The care packages are being assembled for Operation Homefront, and various items are needed to fill boxes.
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Powerful storms, car crashes that injured and killed youth, the opening of new restaurants, the loss of a familiar face at one of the area’s most famous restaurants, and the changing landscape of Woodbridge topped the list of the most clicked news stories of the year on PotomacLocal.com.
See the list below of the top 10 stories and tell us what should get an honorable mention.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Visitors to Featherstone National Wildlife Refuge will soon be able to use an elevator to get there.
A new agreement between Virginia Railway Express and Prince William County will ultimately permit visitors access to the secluded refuge on the Potomac River from a pedestrian platform at the Rippon VRE station. Visitors will be able to use an elevator to access the platform and then go over to the refuge, including weekends when the commuter rail station is not in use, according details of the new deal.
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![Carlee Jones, 21, of Gainesville, and Tina Murray, of Manassas, remember the shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a candlelight vigil in Manassas on Dec. 17. [File photo]](https://www.potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121712-Vigil-02-600x392.jpg)
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Today marks one week after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has asked for a statewide moment of silence to honor the 20 children and six adults who were shot and killed during the attack in Connecticut.
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9:15 a.m.
Police report Louis Smith was found and is safe.