Expect some nighttime closure
s on Route 28 this weekend.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is continuing work on the $70 million Route 28 widening project this weekend on Friday and Sunday evening.
The work will take place between Aden Road and Battalion Square, according to VDOT, and Route 28 will be closed in both directions as crews work on storm sewer lines.
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There’s an $85 million veteran’s care facility coming to Northern Virginia.
This year the Virginia General Assembly passed two bills that called for the building of two new veteran’s care centers in the state – one in Northern Virginia and one in Hampton Roads.
Currently, there are two existing veteran’s care centers in Virginia – the Virginia Veterans Care Center in Roanoke and the Sitter & Barfoot Veterans Care Center in Richmond.
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Fifty-five year old Woodbridge man Jon McClellan pled guilty yesterday for receiving child pornography.
According to a U.S. Department of Justice release, McClellan used a file sharing program to receive and store child pornography images and videos, including videos of children between 5 and 12 years old that were being sexually abused.
Court documents stated that McClellan had more than 1,500 images and 1,800 videos of sexually exploited children.
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Virginia Railway Express (VRE) could face fines up to $25,000 a day starting in 2016.
This is one of the consequences that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) could levy against Virginia's only commuter railroad for not meeting full federal compliance standards with implementation of "positive train control" by the end of 2015, according to VRE spokesman Bryan Jungwirth.
Positive train control is a combination of technologies that can automatically stop a train to prevent collisions and derailments, like the Amtrak train that derailed outside of Philadelphia in May.
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The Prince William County Fair is coming soon.
According to spokeswoman Chrissy Taylor, Prince William will be hosting their 66th annual fair from August 14 to August 22.
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Update
Mom's Organic Market will open today in Woodbridge.
Update
Koetz stated that the opening has been pushed back to September.
Original post
MOM's Organic Market is opening a new location in Woodbridge at the end of August.Â
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Officials are trying to figure out how to keep PRTC buses rolling in 2017.
There’s been more talk, but not much action to address the looming $9 million annual shortfall for Prince William County’s transit system.
The Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission (PRTC) operates bus service and has a hand in Virginia Railway Express. At the PRTC commissioners meeting last week, they talked about an impending $9 million budget shortfall that could halt bus service in its tracks.
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An environmental organization is concerned about toxic chemicals making their way into Quantico Creek and the Potomac River from the Possum Point power plant near Dumfries.
Possum Point's power plant used to burn coal to generate power. When coal burns it creates a residue, known as coal ash, which was pumped into coal ash ponds on the property before the plant switched to burning natural gas in 2003.
Dominion Virginia Power owns the plant. They were unable to provide the date when the Possum Point plant opened.
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Over the weekend, members of the Manassas Write by the Rails group gathered to create free little libraries for the Greater Prince William (GPW) Little Free Libraries project.
Potomac Local has partnered with Write by the Rails and the Prince William Library Foundation to get several little free library locations set up across the greater Prince William area.
