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“Once we have a new chief financial officer in place, I’m assured that we will have conversations about implementing those recommendations, or discussing potential implementation,” School Board Chair Katie Pomeroy said after the board received the final travel review, the Fredericksburg Free Press reports.
Robinson, Farmer, Cox Associates reviewed board travel from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. The final report says Ward 4 member Malvina Kay used a purchase card not issued in her name once, and former at-large member Jarvis Bailey did so 27 times. It tells the division to issue cards in members’ names and require an authorized-user agreement, plus detailed receipts and no personal charges. For Kay’s April 2025 National School Boards Association conference in Atlanta, the report puts the division’s cost at $4,238.24, reduced by $410.41, for a net of $3,827.83. That trip included first-class and premium-economy airfare. The paper said the board voted unanimously Monday on updated norms and protocols, not on the travel recommendations.
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Manassas Park City Hall, the Department of Social Services, the library, and public works are closed Monday, Oct. 12, for Indigenous Peoples Day, the city said. The Community Center stays open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Offices reopen Tuesday, Oct. 13. Trash collection is not affected. Public safety stays on call. Water and sewer emergencies on the holiday go to the police non-emergency line, (703) 361-1136.
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Fredericksburg VA Main Street, Inc. will get $17,000 to redo the alley from Caroline Street into Market Square, the governor’s office said Wednesday, as part of $615,000 for 22 Virginia Main Street projects.
“This will include three murals, updated alley banner flags, updated lighting and more,” Executive Director Chris Allen said Thursday.
Manassas City Police shut down six massage businesses and arrested three people Tuesday in Operation False Front, the department said.
The operation started with a Crime Solvers tip. Detectives and assisting agencies served search and arrest warrants at the businesses and at homes in the City of Manassas, Fairfax County, and Prince William County. Police said they seized several hundred thousand dollars in cash, plus records. Several people the department described as human-trafficking victims were found and given services.
Prince William County police said a 38-year-old Manassas man was arrested after he called the Juvenile Detention Center near Manassas and threatened to blow up the facility, then assaulted officers. No injuries were reported. The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office daily incident report listed a public-intoxication arrest at a Wyche Road Sheetz and a DUI stop near Hospital Center Boulevard.
On October 8 at approximately 2:11 a.m., officers responded to the Juvenile Detention Center, at 14873 Dumfries Road near Manassas (20112), to investigate what was originally dispatched as a phone call complaint, the Thursday daily incident report said. The investigation revealed a man, later identified as the accused, called into the center and threatened to blow up the facility. Officers located the accused at this residence and detained him. While being escorted to a police cruiser, the accused became aggressive and assaulted officers multiple times, before being secured. No injuries were reported by the officers. The accused was identified as Peshwaz Azad Waise, 38, of Manassas. Waise was charged with three counts of assault and battery on a law enforcement officer and one count of threats to bomb. He was held without bond. A court date is pending. The report said no photo was available.
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A Stafford County Sheriff’s Office arrest report names Mayada Khadr, 38, as arrested on two felony counts of cruelty and injury to children.
The report lists Casey T. Richardson as the arresting officer. Richardson arrested Khadr at 4:52 p.m. The report says Richardson arrested Khadr at the sheriff’s office, 1225 Courthouse Road, on October 6. The case is listed as domestic. The office released the report in response to a public-records request. It does not name a victim, and it does not say the arrest was at a school. The supplement that lists the arrest was still marked incomplete.
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