Nelson Head, owner and founder of Dixie Bones BBQ in Woodbridge, Virginia, tracks wholesale prices weekly to keep menu prices as fair as possible.
Not-so-good news this week:
Fredericksburg residents just held a packed forum asking if they’re becoming the next Data Center Alley while Manassas learned the hard way that a bank inside the Brickyard facility wiped out millions in expected BPOL revenue under Virginia law.
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge recently hosted its intensive eight-week Student Nurse Apprentice Program, giving third-year nursing students hands-on clinical experience and one-on-one mentorship before their senior year of school.
The program follows an apprenticeship model in which each participant is paired with a dedicated registered nurse preceptor. Students work directly with patients alongside interdisciplinary healthcare teams and observe procedures and specialty care areas that often go beyond standard nursing school rotations.
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A 16-year-old male was found dead along a wooded trail at Andrew Leitch Park in Woodbridge on July 28. Police said the death appears to have involved a self-inflicted injury, with no preliminary signs of foul play.
Also included in the latest reports from Prince William and Stafford counties are multiple juvenile arrests stemming from a knife-point robbery at a Woodbridge elementary school, an arrest in a July malicious wounding at a Sheetz, a shots-fired incident with a suspect still sought, the earlier Stafford armed robbery arrests, a DUI and a fraud case.
I recently spoke with Navya Tuteja, a 17-year-old rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, about the free AI tool she built and launched called Raaha. The platform is designed to help neurodivergent job seekers figure out whether a role will actually fit how they work—before they hit “apply.”
Navya created Raaha after seeing the same problem play out again and again. Job descriptions, she told me, usually explain what employers want but almost never describe what the job will feel like day to day. For neurodivergent people, that gap often leads to applications that go nowhere or jobs that quickly become unsustainable.
Stafford County Public Schools has announced which schools will provide free breakfast and lunch to all students under the Community Eligibility Provision this school year.
Participating schools include Anne E. Moncure, Kate Waller Barrett, Widewater, Falmouth, Rocky Run and Falls Run elementary schools, Edward E. Drew Middle School, and the North Star and Rising Star Head Start programs. Students at these schools get meals at no cost with no application required.
All 23 Apple Federal Credit Union branches across Northern Virginia now accept Virginia Mobile ID for in-branch identity verification, according to a joint announcement from the credit union and the Virginia DMV on Wednesday.
Apple FCU is the first credit union on the East Coast to offer the digital credential network-wide and one of only three financial institutions nationwide doing so. Members can show a QR code from the free app instead of a physical ID. The digital option, already accepted at more than 350 TSA checkpoints and all Virginia DMV locations, rolled out in Northern Virginia earlier this year.
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High pressure will keep skies mostly sunny and conditions dry across Northern Virginia through Friday, with seasonable temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. An isolated shower or thunderstorm cannot be ruled out each afternoon, but overall rain chances stay low. Rain chances then increase this weekend as an upper-level system moves through the region.
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