The Virginia Railway Express will operate on a limited schedule today in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Only trains marked by “S” on schedules, the rider’s guide or on station posters will run today, according to the VRE Web site. On the Manassas line, trains 324, 328, 332, 327, 331 and 335…
MANASSAS — The residents of Manassas have helped make their city a safer place. Through the city police department’s Crime Solvers program, tips from anonymous residents led to 18 criminal arrests in 2001, the most in one year since the program began in 1987, said Sgt. Marc J. Woolverton, a Manassas police spokesman. The citizen-informant…
MANASSAS — First-time visitors approaching Manassas via Interstate 66 are having troubles hitting the right exit. It is an issue Roger Snyder, director of community development for Manassas, has been dealing with for the past four years. “People have been confused about which [Va.] 234 [exit] they want to get off at,” Snyder said. “On…
MANASSAS — Should the Prince William Health System’s Fitness Center close as announced by its board of trustees, about 680 members will lose a place many say they feel comfortable working out to keep healthy. Among those will be Carl Smith, nearing 80 years old, and his wife, Carrie, who is 80. The married couple…
MANASSAS — The cause of an outbreak of rashes remains a mystery at Marsteller Middle School in Manassas, however research of newspapers and school systems throughout North America revealed they have occurred at other schools where health officials have yet to determine the source. It has been almost two months since an unexplained rash plagued…