eam/james Manassas Park government, for a second year in a row, will dip into the city’s savings to lower its real estate tax rate. The City Council voted 6-0 Monday night to approve the city’s proposed 2003-2004 fiscal budget, which includes a $25.4 million operating fund and a nearly 3 percent drop in the real…
The Haymarket Town Council voted Monday night to sell the town center property and accept a letter of intent to purchase from Creston M. Owen. Owen is the owner of Manassas-based Falcon Communications and owns several buildings in Old Town Manassas. The town purchased the property three years ago for $1.25 million. The council decided…
A historic event took place Tuesday at Joe Gibbs’ Youth for Tomorrow New Life Center south of Manassas on Linton Hall Road. The residential-educational-couseling facility for at-risk teenage boys since 1986, broke ground for two new residential quarters for girls. Two eight-bed girls’ homes will be constructed at a cost of $1 million. The homes,…
Competitive teacher salaries was among the Manassas School Board’s priorities Monday when it approved its $68.5 million budget in the 2004 fiscal year. All employees will receive a 3 percent cost-of-living increase. Teachers and support staff such as janitors would have an average step increase of 3 percent while administrative staff will receive an average…
The accidental shooting of Hylton High School star linebacker James Parker on Friday night highlights the problems associated with illicit handgun possession, said a man who lives at the intersection across from where the shooting occurred. “It should be a lesson to all these young kids that guns kill people,” said Dennis Lawrence, 25. “They’re…