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A group of parents fed with face masks walked their children to school.

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[caption id="attachment_167810" align="aligncenter" width="640"] An artist rendering of the Mill at Occoquan.[/caption]

Occoquan will soon enact an amplified outdoor sound permit which will allow residents and businesses to play music for outdoor events. The licenses enable sound to be audible at 50 feet beyond a property.

The town will require businesses to renew permits annually. The cost of the license will be $100.

The town has set hours when amplified outdoor sound will be prohibited, between 10 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and between 8 p.m. and 10:30 a.m. Sunday to Thursday. The permit program is scheduled to launch in Spring 2022.

In other town news, officials want more information from the developer of The Mill at Occoquan. The building is designed to be a five-story building located on Mill Street on the waterfront.

The Mill would feature 52 apartments and 7,000 square feet of office space which includes space for a restaurant with a terrace overlooking the Occoquan River. If The Mill is built, it would be the tallest and most prominent building in Occoquan.

An application for The Mill had been presented to the Architecture Review Board at its meeting on Sept. 28, 2021. The September meeting resulted in the board asking for more information from the applicant on a range of different topics concerning the project such as who would be in charge of maintaining planters boxes, the style of door for residential use and fire safety, placement of retail signage, and copper downspouts that were mentioned but weren't in the design.

The next meeting of the Occoquan Town Council is February 1 at the Occoquan Town Hall, at 314 Mill Street. When the Occoquan Town Council meetings were supposed to take place in January, they were canceled due to the recent snowstorms.

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Delegate Tara Durant (R-Fredericksburg, Stafford) wants schools to notify parents of sexually explicit material in lesson plans and books.

The freshman Republican’s bill would require the state Board of Education to:


Neighborhood Notes

Unlikely support: Chesterfield Sen. Amanda Chase has been kicked out of her local Republican party, left the chamber’s Republican Caucus and faced formal censure for baseless claims of election fraud, a vote that saw Republican colleagues openly criticize her on the Senate floor. That hasn’t stopped many of them from supporting her bills to roll back COVID-19 protective measures. [Virginia Mercury]

Volunteer Opportunities: For those who want to give back to the community, several volunteer opportunities are open in Prince William County, Manassas, and Manassas Park. [Press release]


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Prince William police said Joseph Kojo Asempa Dennis was found safe after he went missing 12 days ago. Police provided no further details.

Dennis last seen leaving the Shorehaven Apartments located on Porters Inn Drive in Dumfries on Thursday, January 13 at 5:40 p.m.


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A box truck overturned at the Stafford County line today.

Stafford fire and rescue crews and sheriff’s deputies went to the crash on Route 1 at the Prince William County/Stafford County line, near Quantico.


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Jagadev filed the paperwork for his candidacy with city registrar Susan Reed on Thursday, January 19, he states in a post on social media.

Jagadev is a teacher in the city public schools. He’s also an appointed member of the Manassas Planning Commission, a seven-member board that reviews new building developments to ensure plans fit within city zoning ordinances.


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According to the Stafford County sheriff, children who don’t wear face masks to school Monday won’t be arrested.

The sheriff took to social media to debunk myths floating around on social media that deputies will arrest children for not complying with the county’s public school division’s face mask requirement.


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Indecent Exposure | Sexual Assault – On January 19 at 4:10PM, officers responded to Ollie’s located at 8351 Sudley Rd. in Manassas (20109) to investigate an assault. The victim, a 23-year-old woman, reported to police that she was inside the business when an unknown man, later identified as the accused, touched her inappropriately as he walked by her.

The victim continued shopping and observed the accused follow her throughout the store. A short time later, the victim observed the accused exposing himself and making inappropriate gestures towards her and her 1-year-old daughter.