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Shooting leaves people jittery at the gas pump
Following the Wednesday night shooting at a gas station near Manassas, many drivers throughout the Prince William County area who stopped to pump gas Thursday did so apprehensively. “It’s fear,” said Husein Bataineh, manager of the Potomac Mills Exxon on Gideon Road. “When they are pumping their gas, they are looking around.” “Customers are talking…
Manassas Journal Messenger | TASTE Dolmades wrap: a ticket to Greece
CONCORD, N.H. – It was a thick, hot summer day and I was stuck in Boston on business with a pile of dull paperwork to be read and digested. It was dull and I was hungry. Not gosh-I’m-feeling-bit-peckish-and-wouldn’t-a-snack-be-nice hungry. I was full-on, belly-gnawing hungry, mostly because I’d skipped breakfast to beat the rush-hour commute and…
Manassas Journal Messenger | Land agreement hems in Occoquan land owners
When Grover Cleveland Russell died in 1966, he left behind 583 acres of land that extends to the Occoquan Reservoir shoreline. The property follows Wolf Run Shoals Road to the water’s edge and completely surrounds Simpson’s Branch, a tributary to the Occoquan Reservoir. In 2003, there are hundreds of houses on the lots that Russell…
Manassas Journal Messenger | Picnic helps strengthen neighborhood bonds
Christians Involved Together with Youth, or C.I.T.Y., brought a great deal more than five loaves of bread and two fishes to feed the multitudes Saturday afternoon in Georgetown South. Dennis Joyner, the treasurer of C.I.T.Y., a consortium of area churches that has been hosting the Georgetown South Community Picnic for 14 years, said organizers have…
A smooth transition for Draughn
At the time he made it, Jernavis Draughn’s (Potomac ’00) decision to leave a Division I program like American University for the confines of junior college basketball in Hagerstown, Md. might have seemed like a step back in his career. He certainly thought so. He had started six games for the Eagles as a freshman,…
Park celebrates nature’s bounty
The folks at Leesylvania State Park celebrated Natural Heritage Day on Saturday with an awards ceremony, music, prizes, a birds of prey show and a reptile and amphibian exhibit. After the 2003 Partners for the Potomac Awards Ceremony where the Friends of the Occoquan, Carl Diamond, Benjamin Keil, Melvin Bellinger, Janet Anastasi, Gloria Asbery and…