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Students may be crossing their fingers for no more snow once faced with making up missed school during a teacher workday, holiday or spring break. Manassas Park, Manassas and Prince William County school officials are considering what available days on the calendar could become make-up days for students. “Our objective is to have school but,…

A 62-year-old Nokesville man died after his car rear-ended another vehicle at 5:40 a.m. Saturday on Dumfries Road, said 1st Sgt. Kim Chinn, Prince William police. Three cars were involved in the accident that killed Gerald Lee Page, a security officer for Prince William County schools, Chinn said. The accident occurred in the southbound lane,…

Dennis E. Harrelson Dennis E. Harrelson, 42, of Manassas died Friday, May 10, 2002, at Prince William Hospital in Manassas. Preceded in death by his wife, Sandra Lee Harrelson in 1999, and his father, Thomas D. Harrelson II in 2002, he is survived by one son, Thomas D. Harrelson III of Manassas; one daughter, Victoria…

? Mayor: William J. Treuting Jr., (703) 330-1576 ? Vice Mayor: Kevin P. Brendel: (703) 369-0040 ? City Council members Michael Bunner: (703) 257-1813 I. I. Allen Correll: (703) 330-7644 Vonna L. Privett: (703) 369-5838 Noreen Slater: (703) 335-0016 William R. Wren: (703) 361-8451 ? City Manager: David Reynal, (703) 335-8813 ? City Clerk: Lana…

Organizers of a 9-11 memorial in Prince William County have a good idea of the elements they want to use in the tribute. It will have a pentagon-shaped base to honor those who died at the Pentagon during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. It will have two tall fountains to honor those who…

The Richmond Times-Dispatch made a good point when considering New York’s continued need to ship its garbage south to Virginia. In an editorial this week, the TD noted that Virginia took into account New York’s concerns more than a decade ago when the commonwealth passed its one gun a month law. Government officials in the…