The Hylton Performing Arts Center will hold The Ritual of Mask Making: Play, Performance, and Self-Permission, a free Veterans and the Arts Initiative workshop, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, and Thursday, Nov. 5.

Participants will create face masks as a way to express their emotional journeys through art and share their stories through the masks and personal reflections.


U.S. Reps. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va.-10th, and Eugene Vindman, D-Va.-7th, are among federal lawmakers who have received letters with an unknown substance at their district offices, InsideNoVa reported.

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Sphere Entertainment Group has released a new rendering and site plan for its proposed venue at National Harbor, Fox 5 reported.

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Virginia had recorded 183,217 early ballots through Sunday, compared with 75,819 at the same point in 2022, The Center Square reported.

That is about 142 percent ahead of the comparable point four years ago. The 1st Congressional District led with 25,774. The 5th had 20,590 and the 11th had 20,002. The 7th had 16,295.


Prince William supervisors unanimously denied Dominion Energy’s Vint Hill switching-station upgrade, left-turn restrictions start Friday at Prince William Parkway and Minnieville Road, and Manassas is weighing a scaled-back November First Friday after a Monday town hall.

According to InsideNoVa, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously opposed Dominion Energy’s gas-insulated switching station planned for just over 23 acres at 13405 Vint Hill Road, next to Braemar in the Brentsville District. The board had deferred the special use permit 90 days on June 23 after supervisors said Dominion had not provided enough information.


Wonder says it will open a new location at Smoketown Station in Woodbridge on Thursday, Sept. 17, with a ribbon cutting at 10:30 a.m.

The address is 13257 Worth Avenue. The shopping center, off Prince William Parkway near Potomac Mills, already includes retailers and restaurants such as Best Buy, Lidl, Total Wine & More, Chuck E. Cheese and First Watch.


From a free all-day arts festival in Manassas and Bat Boy at the Workhouse in Lorton to a Slave Dwelling Project weekend in Fredericksburg and WWII living history in Woodbridge, here are things to do Friday evening through Sunday.

According to the Hylton Performing Arts Center, Arts Alive! runs Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. across the Manassas campus at 10960 George Mason Circle, with free admission and no tickets required.


A 16-year-old girl killed during First Friday in Old Town Manassas is believed to have been a bystander in an exchange of gunfire, Manassas City Police said Saturday.

Sgt. Shauna Moller, the department’s public information officer, confirmed that characterization to Potomac Local News on Saturday afternoon.


Fredericksburg City Council treated the Technology Overlay District as a political promise, not just a zoning map, when it voted 7-0 after midnight to keep a data center off the Hylton tract.

The Aug. 25-26 votes denied a rezoning and a height permit for 1500 Gateway along Interstate 95, between Plank Road and Cowan Boulevard. Council did not say the overlay text itself banned the site. Members who passed the TOD in 2025, and one who was not on the dais then, said they had already told residents where data centers would go.


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