Dear Lane Ranger: I am writing to inform you about a traffic light in our area that isn’t synchronized very well at all. It is located at the intersection of Minnieville Road and Hedgewood Drive in Woodbridge. I work at Long and Foster Realtors on Hedgewood Drive and there is an over 55 community located…
MANASSAS Some of their conversations are carried out in code — a series of secret hand signals passing between Osbourn Park outside hitter Carly Fleming and all-state setter Helen Theisen. After six seasons as teammates, spoken words aren’t always necessary. Ideas can be conveyed with body gestures and knowing glances. “I don’t think I could…
Brentsville District High School remained the most overcrowded high school in Prince William County this year, but enrollment is slightly lower than school officials projected. As of Oct. 1, the date school officials took their official fall enrollment counts, 1,532 students were enrolled in Brentsville. That’s about 400 more students than the Nokesville school was…
Bristow resident Mona Shaw jokes that her “15 minutes of fame has spread to about 30.” The 75-year-old had quite the surprise waiting after she returned home from a weekend trip. Shaw, who was arrested for disturbing the peace at the Manassas Comcast office in August, had an answering machine full of messages and media…
Prince William supervisors learned Thursday that they’ll have to raise the tax rate several times if they want to keep the county flush over the next five years. Real estate values that are down by 14 percent will force their hands. The current tax rate is 78.7 cents per $100 of assessed value. At that…