Dear Santa Claus
This is the time of year to learn whether Santa Claus thinks you have been naughty or nice. Send Santa your letter by clicking on the link below. Post your note to him and check back to see if he read your letter…
Arnold’s rookie season smoother than expected
By ED TURNER For the Potomac News & Manassas Journal Messenger Michael Arnold is making an impression in Grand Stocks at Old Dominion Speedway this year. Arnold, a 38-year-old Hyattsville, Md., rookie, is now fifth in points and has cracked the top five twice this season and only finished outside of the top 10 once,…
ARTS: Rising Star
STERLING – With a baseball cap pulled down over her blond hair and sunglasses perched on her freckled nose, Katy Benko still resembles most of the teenage athletes who are playing softball around her on the sun-baked diamonds at Claude Moore Park. A few years ago, Benko would have happily joined them in the dugout….
Homeless man acquitted in nose biting
Eric Evan Miller asked for water to wash bits of Ernest Holsten’s nose out of his mouth during a Dec. 1, 2002, interview with Detective Marcos D. Spittal. The homeless 38-year-old felon and former landscaper had with one clean bite just chomped the nib off Holsten’s nose. The bite almost went down to the bone,…
Gerhart to present FY 2006 budget
County Executive Craig Gerhart will present to Gainesville residents the proposed fiscal 2006 budget for Prince William County on March 10. He’ll be the guest speaker at a town hall meeting where residents can listen to budget specifics, ask questions and make their opinions heard. Supervisor John T. Stirrup, R-Gainesville, is hosting the quarterly meeting….