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North Stafford High School administrators institute "rolling" bathroom closures to curb student vaping. [Photo: Bekah Whittacre/PLN student intern]
Administrators at North Stafford High School have closed bathrooms during the school day due to an increasing student vaping problem.

Parents and students who spoke to PLN about the situation say metal gates bar the entrances of several bathrooms throughout the school building at 839 Garrisonville Road in North Stafford.

Students and parents told PLN the majority of the school's bathrooms are closed during a school-wide lunch hour. The hour-long lunch, which allows all students one hour to eat lunch, seek college counseling, catch up on studies, meet with teachers, or attend lunch-and-learn sessions, was instituted at the start of the current school year in August 2022 at all five county high schools.

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At the Manassas Economic Development Authority meeting this week, members asked "what's next" regarding the city's purchase of a motorway inn in the heart of Downtown.

We told you earlier this month the city agreed to buy the Olde Towne Inn at 9405 Main Street for $5.5 million. The motel was originally constructed in the 1960s. It is located in the geographic center of the downtown neighborhood and sits on an entire city block.

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Eggs for sale at a Lidl grocery store in Manassas in January 2023.

The average price of a dozen eggs in the U.S. was $4.25 in 2022, up from $1.54 in 2019.

And it's only expected to rise, making it more difficult for residents to feed their families. Prince William County Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega says she's received letters, including one from the father of a family of 10, who goes through 20 eggs a day to feed his family, asking her if something can be done to ease the family's egg woes.

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Stafford County Public Schools will replace security cameras on 85 school buses.

The school board voted unanimously on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, to spend $325,000  to place high-resolution cameras on the school buses, replacing other cameras the school division describes as "low-resolution" and "fragile."

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The red line shows the path of where an 8-inch gas pipeline will travel, from the Prince William County Landfill, through an overhead power line easement in Dale City, to the county government center. The blue line shows an alternative path for the pipeline using Hoadly Road.

The details of a new gas pipeline running from the Prince William County Landfill to the heart of county government operations, the James J. McCoart Administration Complex, will be discussed at a public meeting.

Some Prince William County residents in the Dale City area are learning about a new natural gas pipeline that could be laid near their homes.

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Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) came to Woodbridge today to urge fellow congressional leaders to increase the debt ceiling, allowing the Federal Government to borrow more money.

Spanberger said the risk of defaulting on the country's loans is a "far greater risk" than anything the U.S. military is shooting down from the sky. Over the past week, the Air Force shot down three unidentified foreign aircraft and a spy balloon from China that floated from Alaska to the South Carolina coast before being shot down, leading many to speculate on the type and source of the unknown objects and why they flew into U.S. airspace.

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