Police Blotter

Prince William County police are investigating an indecent exposure at a Woodbridge apartment complex, where a woman woke to knocking on her window. The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office released its daily incident report listing two fraud cases and the arrest of a man wanted out of South Carolina.

On October 28 at 1:57AM, officers responded to Misty Ridge Apartments, located in the 15000 block of Sunny Ridge Ct in Woodbridge (22191), to investigate an indecent exposure. The investigation revealed the victim, a 23-year-old woman, was asleep inside her residence when she woke up to the sound of knocking on her window. The victim looked out the window and observed an unknown man exposing himself and making obscene gestures before leaving the area on foot. The suspect was described as a black male wearing dark colored clothing.


Fredericksburg

A table on the University of Mary Washington’s Campus Walk that advertised voter registration while displaying Democratic campaign literature was permitted under the university’s rules, a UMW spokeswoman said.

A reader who contacted Potomac Local News reported seeing the table in front of Lee Hall on Oct. 22. It carried a “register to vote here” banner, and two men were staffing it, according to an email the reader sent that evening to UMW’s director of student activities and the president’s office.


Stafford

Parents who told the Stafford County School Board that removing religious holidays while adding instructional days amounted to “covert oppression” helped push the board to keep those days on the 2027-28 calendar.

The board voted 6-1 on Oct. 27 to approve version 2 of the calendar, which keeps federal holidays plus religious and cultural days the division has observed in recent years, including Yom Kippur, Diwali and Eid. A substitute motion for version 3, which would have kept only federal holidays, failed 4-3.


Event

High school students from across the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region are invited to participate in Dialogue for Democracy at George Mason University!

Hosted by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, this event offers high school students an opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations about democracy, civic engagement, and the importance of understanding different perspectives.


Stafford

The Stafford County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 20 unanimously approved a rezoning allowing James River Equipment to expand its facility in the Falmouth District.The board approved the change from B-3 Office Zoning District to M-2 Heavy Industrial on about 9.5 acres (parcels 38-83D and 38-83) at the northeast corner of Wyche Road and Venture Drive.

The site already holds the company’s existing roughly 10,000-square-foot facility on the southern parcel; the northern parcel is used for outdoor storage. The rezoning permits a new approximately 35,000-square-foot building that will include office, shop, showroom and parts space, plus a wash bay. The existing building will remain.


Schools

Loudoun County Public Schools staff this week floated closing four low-enrollment western elementary schools to save about $8.5 million, but most members of the Loudoun County School Board rejected the idea at Tuesday’s meeting, Loudoun Now reported.

The discussion comes after neighboring Prince William County closed Potomac View Elementary School when students moved into the new Woodbridge Elementary this fall, Potomac Local News reported, and after the Prince William School Board canceled plans for a 14th high school in February amid declining enrollment projections.


Stafford

Stafford County offices will close an extra half-day on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2026, after the Board of Supervisors approved the additional holiday leave on Oct. 20.

The board voted 5-2 to approve Resolution R26-383, which gives county employees a full day off the day before Thanksgiving. Supervisors Crystal Vanuch and Pamela Yeung voted against it.


Prince William

A parent returned to the Prince William County School Board for the third time on Oct. 21, 2026, to press for a division-wide policy guaranteeing students timely access to toilets, citing Freedom of Information Act records about locked bathrooms at Colgan High School.

Janelle Anderson told the board that Colgan, which has nearly 3,000 students, locks multiple bathrooms during seven-minute passing periods, before and after school, during lunch, and during class. She said students who cannot find an unlocked bathroom must interrupt instruction to ask permission to leave class, even with restrictions already in place for the first and last 10 minutes of class.


Prince William

Prince William County opened a new inclusive playground at George Hellwig Memorial Park after more than 200 volunteers built it Oct. 23, InsideNoVa reports.

The playground sits next to the Dr. Richard Tami Miracle Field and was designed with input from local children during a Design Day in August.


Spotsylvania

Multiple Spotsylvania residents asked the Board of Supervisors Tuesday to censure or remove Vice Chair Drew Mullins after his offensive social media posts continued, FXBG Advance reports.

The board took no action and did not discuss the requests at the Oct. 27 meeting. Mullins did not respond during the meeting.