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Potomac Nationals Stadium Plans Unveiled Amid Traffic Woes

By Potomac Local News

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Residents got an earful Thursday about a new baseball stadium for the Potomac Nationals and the traffic it could bring.

Prince William County officials call the newly proposed 6,000-seat minor league stadium a dream project that will attract even more business to Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center in Woodbridge. The stadium would sit along busy Interstate 95 across from Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center and near a popular Wegmans grocery, which anchors the Stonebridge shopping center.

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Tim Kaine in Woodbridge Tonight

By Potomac Local News
Tim Kaine and Anne Holton kicked off a volunteer neighborhood canvass in Stafford. (Photo: Mary Davidson/PotomacLocal.com)

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Tim Kaine will be in Woodbridge tonight to attend a meeting of Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement (VOICE).

The U.S. Senate hopeful will attend the meeting which takes place at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul United Methodist Church at 1400 G Street in Woodbridge.

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Marumsco Hills Elem. Schooled on Healthy Eating

By Potomac Local News
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Tuesday, Sept. 17 was the first day of the Courage F.U.N. Project at Marumsco Hills Elementary School. This pilot program is a collaboration between Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, Prince William Courage, Sodexho, and Prince William County Schools as way to combat the childhood obesity epidemic, specifically in Prince William County.

Forty 4th and 5th graders participated in the event and received Sentara water bottles, Courage Pride t-shirts and their Courage F.U.N. Project workbooks. Sue Sweet, a registered dietician at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, provided a lesson on the importance of eating a healthy breakfast.

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Prince William Using Risk Scores to Determine Budget

By Potomac Local News
The Seal of Prince William County, Va.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Prince William County will bring back a numbers system to decide funding priorities for the fiscal 2014 budget.

Michelle Casciato with the county’s Office of Management and Budget told officials Tuesday her office use will a risk assessment system that will examine what programs and agencies are being funding now, how they relate to the core function of local government, and then assign each scores between four and 20.

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Woodbridge Little League Gets to Share Spotlight with President

By Potomac Local News
Coach Will Whalen and members of the Woodbridge Little League sing at Pfitzner Stadium in Woodbridge before President Obama's speech. (Photo: KJ Mushung/PotomacLocal.com)

By KJ MUSHUNG

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — He wasn’t sure the e-mail was real. Without warning, Will Whalen, a local Little League coach, was being asked to gather a team of players and appear at a rally with the president of the United States. He doesn’t get e-mails like that every day. Whalen didn’t know if it was legitimate or not, so he called the number and spoke with Jamie Lockhart, deputy political director with the Virginia campaign for President Barack Obama.

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Crowds Pack Pfitzner for Obama

By Potomac Local News

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — It’s a standing-room only crowd as at G. Richard Pfitzner Stadium as President Barack Obama comes to Woodbridge to make his case for another four years in the White House.

The stadium that sits behind the Prince William County Government Center holds 6,000 people and each seat in the house is full. So full, in fact, many onlookers have been moved onto the ball field where they hope to catch a glimpse of the president.

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Prince William Prepares Employees for Obama

By Potomac Local News
President Barack Obama gets fired up at a rally in Leesburg, Va., on Aug. 2, 2012. (Photo by: KJ Mushung)

WOODBRIDGE, Va. – The national spotlight will be cast Friday onto the place many Prince William County Government do business. An email distributed to them, and obtained by PotomacLocal.com, states what county employees should expect when President Barack Obama comes to Richard G. Pfitzner Stadium to stump for his campaign.

The text of the entire email is below: 

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Potomac Shores Hinges on Hotel, Mixed Use Property

By Potomac Local News
Southbridge HOA Treasurer Doug Thornton points out road connections between the Southbridge and planned Potomac Shores neighborhoods.

Developers hope a storied past will help sell a town that doesn’t exist yet.

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