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Colin Joseph Wolfe, a dancer turned Marine who fought in Iraq for a mere seven weeks, died Wednesday from an explosion next to his military vehicle, his family said. Wolfe graduated from Osbourn High School and believed very much in becoming a Marine and fighting in Iraq, his parents said. “He loved his country. He…

At least 600 people gathered Friday at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna to mourn Maxine Shelly Turner, one of 32 victims of the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech. Nearly every person present had a maroon and orange ribbon in remembrance of the victims. Picture collages, memory boxes and posters covered with…

For a small community, Manassas Park likes to think big. With a land area of only 2 square miles, the city, located just north of Manassas, is the second smallest in Virginia. And yet skyrocketing real estate values have provided the city government with the funds needed to take responsibility for large projects. In the…

Eighty-year-old civic activist Elizabeth Annie Delp Snyder, best known for her battles to preserve rural and historic land in Prince William County — often against overwhelming odds and influential builders — died on Friday at Prince William Hospital. A resident of Gainesville for 53 years, Snyder was known as a pioneering and lifelong member of…

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors doesn’t even want to talk about getting in the trash collection business. During their meeting Tuesday, county supervisors refused to schedule a public meeting to discuss setting up trash collection services for the Occoquan Forest subdivision, a 219-home residential area near Occoquan Reservoir in the Coles magisterial district….

Heavy traffic has been a fact of life on Bill Dameron’s street since the 1980s. That’s when the city of Manassas extended Rolling Road, turning it into a shortcut between Sudley Road and Ashton Avenue. But last month, Dameron, who has lived on the street for more than 20 years, got fed up. A car…