Online Poll for 8-6-2001

WOODBRIDGE — When she opened a copy of Street & Smith’s 2002 basketball magazine and found her name on a list of honorable mention high school All-Americans, Hylton senior Jasmine Byrd was flattered — and just a tad bit embarrassed. Despite leading the Bulldogs to a school-record 20 wins and the program’s first district title…

WASHINGTON – Since Congress returned from the August recess, the House of Representatives has passed a flurry of bills dealing with immigration reform. The Senate is expected to decide this week how to proceed on at least one of these bills – a measure that would authorize the construction of a 700-mile long fence between…

When Marjorie Childs leaves for work to drop off her daughter at school every morning, she knows it’s going to be a long commute, even though she’s not traveling very far. She said it usually takes her at least 20 minutes to move one-quarter of a mile down Old Carolina Road because of backups from…

STAFFORD — The Stafford High School football team has proved over and over again it can move the football, but you don’t make it to the Group AAA football semifinals on offense alone. You must defend to win and the Indians have played their best defense of the year since the regular season ended. In…

The annual Christmas Basket, sponsored by the Potomac News, Manassas Journal Messenger and the Prince William Chapter of the Salvation Army, is officially on its way to the $45,000 goal. Christine M. Alexander of Dale City donated $150 to the fund, which goes toward helping underprivileged Prince William County families pay for utilities, food and…

DALE CITY — Had she been born 60 years earlier, Sarah Malene probably would have grown up to become a Hall of Fame baseball player. It’s the Gar-Field softball team’s good fortune that the heyday of the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League was in the 1940s. If it still existed today, Malene surely could be…