House and Senate General Assembly money committees announced this week that the state budget will include language to study extending Metro’s Blue Line to Lorton, Woodbridge, Potomac Mills, and Quantico along with enhanced transit on U.S. 1 in Prince William County.

Prince William Board of County Supervisors will hold a Special Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. to review options regarding the construction of the animal shelter and to obtain public feedback on the project.

The University of Virginia School of Medicine reports it has received $146.3 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal 2019, the largest amount in the school’s history. In one notable milestone, the federal Food and Drug Administration just approved an artificial pancreas developed at UVA to free people with type 1 diabetes from the painful ritual of daily needlesticks.

Jeanine Lawson, Brentsville District Supervisor, has announced that she will host a town hall regarding the Devlin Road development proposal on Monday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. at Chris Yung Elementary School. The application includes 516 homes built on 269 acres, bordered by Linton Hall and Devlin Roads.

On February 5 at 12:07AM, Prince William County police officers responded to St. Mathews Lutheran Church located at 12351 All Saints Pl. in Woodbridge (22192) to investigate an unlawful entry. The caller reported to police that an unknown man, later identified as the accused, broke into the church and was still inside the building.

On February 4 at 3:18PM, Prince William County police officers responded to the Sunoco located at 3220 Old Bridge Rd. in Woodbridge (22192) after an employee called to report an individual, who matched the description of the suspect from a previously reported robbery, was outside of the business.

This prestigious year-long program is exclusively for educators in the state of Virginia who work in 4th-12th grade art, social studies, language arts, gifted & talented, special education, and ESL / ELL classrooms as well as those who teach as school librarians and media specialists.

Lance R. Collins, Cornell University's Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering, has been selected as the inaugural vice president and executive director of Virginia Tech’s new Innovation Campus in Alexandria.