Prince William County School Board powwows with legislative delegation on legislative priorities to include full funding for Standards of Quality, salary increases for teachers and funding to reduce class size.

A community tradition, the Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Old Bridge United Methodist Church in Lake Ridge, is taking a year off, but will return in 2016. Old Bridge has hosted the dinner for some 20 years.

Dominion Resources announced Nov. 23 that it is providing $1 million in grants through its charitable foundation to help feed, shelter and care for people in need across 12 states this holiday season. The Critical Community Needs grants will be awarded by the Dominion Foundation and several in the Prince William area are to be recipients.

NBC4’s next Community Shred is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 12, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., at the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. Local food banks SERVE and ACTS will be collecting nonperishable items to help fill a growing need during the holidays.

Prince William County will be well represented at the state capitol during the holiday season this year thanks to Frank Chergosky, a member of the Woodbridge Senior Center who carved an ornament to hang on this year's holiday tree in the Executive Mansion in Richmond.

Tickets to ride the Dec. 12 Virginia Railway Express (VRE) Santa trains go on sale at 9 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 23 at http://www.vrespecialevents.org and select vendor locations. In 2014 all tickets sold out online in eight minutes and within 1 ½ hours at vendor locations even though VRE added one more train to the Manassas line and placed restrictions on ticket sales.

Vint Hill Road (VA 215) between Schaeffer Lane and Determination Drive will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20 to 4 a.m. Monday, Nov. 23 so that crews can perform water main and storm sewer line work, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Murder Investigation *ARREST – On November 17th, after an extensive search, Lamar LEWIS was located and arrested at an apartment located in the 3800 block of Mulkey Cir in Marietta, Georgia by members of the Atlanta U.S. Marshals’ Fugitive Task Force.

Featherbed Lane will be closed to through traffic at Lee Highway Nov. 17 & 18 for paving in Manassas National Battlefield Park, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

Ashton Avenue opened to through traffic between Crestwood Drive and Lomond Drive today Nov. 17 as crews finished replacing a damaged culvert, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. Earlier VDOT had estimated a Nov. 18 reopening.

Manassas VA City Police Department's crime report for Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.

Prince William County VA Police Department's crime report for Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015.