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Woodbridge Health Center Offering Free Screenings

By Potomac Local News
Congressman Gerry Connolly visited the Greater Prince William Community Health Center in Woodbridge on Wednesday where he was honored for his work advocating or community clinics. (Uriah Kiser/PotomacLocal.com)

WOODBRIDGE, Va.– Congressman Gerry Connolly was in Woodbridge on Wednesday to celebrate National Community Health Center Week.

Appearing at the Greater Prince William Health Center in Woodbridge, a facility just off Prince William Parkway, run by Frank Principi who also doubles at the Prince William Woodbridge District Magisterial Supervisor, the congressman was joined by community members and children from the Prince William Boys and Girls Clubs who came for free health screenings, food, and fun.

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I-95 HOT Lanes Construction Underway

By Potomac Local News
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell joins elected officials in breaking ground for a new project that will add HOT lanes to Interstate 95. (Mary Davidson/PotomacLocal.com)

By URIAH KISER

DALE CITY, Va. — It’s going to take two years and about $1 billon, but the effort to put toll lanes on Interstate 95 in Virginia is underway.

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Kayaker Pulled from Occoquan Reservoir

By Potomac Local News

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — At 5:45 p.m. Sunday, Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton Volunteer Firefighters responded to the report of a person who had fallen out of a kayak in the Occoquan Reservoir.

Medic 514 and Engine 514 arrived on the scene and made visual contact with the victim from the nearest shore. Fortunately the victim’s mother and another Good Samaritan had come to his aid and had pulled the child from the water into a canoe.

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Children’s Choir Forming

By Potomac Local News
Prince William Children's Choir Director Amanda Long.

DUMFRIES, Va. — The Prince William County Children’s Choir will begin its first season this fall for children ages five to 12-years-old.

Founder and Music Director Amanda Long will hold auditions August 25 and 25, and September 8 and 9. Participants are not required to have any music training to audition, only be able to read. Audition registration will open on August 10 and the choir has space for up to 60 participants for the first year; the first rehearsal will be held September 15.

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Chick-fil-A’s Cathy Postpones Appearance

By Potomac Local News
Chick-fil-A President and CEO Dan Cathy this week took a public stance against gay marriage and is slated to speak in Manassas later this year at an event promoted by the Prince William Chamber of Commerce.

PRINCE WILLAM COUNTY, Va. — Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy has always been welcomed at the Prince William Chamber of Commerce, he just won’t visit them this year.

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PRTC Upgrades Phone System

By Potomac Local News
PRTC Customer Service Agent Kenyetta Whitford takes a call from a customer. Whitford helps customers get where they need to go.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — An upgrade to the phone system at the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission provides riders easier access to vital travel information without having to wait to personally speak with a Customer Service Agent.

The upgraded phone system saves some passengers from waiting on hold to speak with PRTC staff and enables PRTC Customer Service Agents to devote more time to callers who need individualized attention.

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Prince William’s Chief Deane Retiring

By Potomac Local News
Retiring Prince William police Chief Charlie T. Deane. (Photo: Mary Davidson)

BREAKING NEWS

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — The leader of the Prince William County Police Department, Chief Charlie T. Deane, one of the agency’s original officers when the department was founded in 1970, will retire. More from a press release:

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Fill Dirt May Be Answer for Flooded Trailer Park

By Potomac Local News

WOODBRIDGE, Va. – Residents forced out of a Woodbridge trailer park are moving back in, and now a new plan in the works could end months of dispute on the future of the park.

Some of the nine families who were still living in their trailers at the Holly Acres Mobile Home Park off U.S. 1 in Woodbridge when Prince William County building officials ordered them out in July returned home this week, said Mark Moorstein, a layer for Holly Acres Trailer Park owner Hank Ridge.

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HOV Lanes to Close 3 Nights This Week

By Potomac Local News
Commuters use the High Occupancy Vehicle lanes on I-95 in Woodbridge. (Uriah Kiser/PotomacLocal.com)

The Virginia Department of Transportation will close the I-95 High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes overnight starting on Wednesday, August 1 and Thursday, August 2, from 8 p.m. until 5 a.m., and again on Friday, August 3 from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m., for traffic shifts.

Wednesday night August 1, and Thursday night, August 2, the I-95 HOV lanes will be closed from Exit 152, Dumfries Road (Route 234) to Exit 169, Franconia Road /Keene Mill Road (Route 644) from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. On Friday night, August 3, this closure will be in place from 11 p.m. to 9 a.m.

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