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Amazon to bring multi-story fulfillment center and 1000 full-time jobs to Va. Beach by late 2024
FROM the Office od Governor Glenn Youngkin 09/25/23 / Breaking News / Business / Local Government / Money & Taxes / Transportation /
Amazon will establish a multi-story robotics fulfillment center and delivery station, which will bring more than 1,000 new full-time jobs. The Amazon center is anticipated to launch operations in 2025, with the delivery station anticipated to launch in 2024 in time for the holiday season.
Troops to Teachers Virginia Center at William & Mary College gets funding
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FROM Va, Dept. of Education 01/25/23 / Education / Military / Money & Taxes / People & Places /
Virginia likes retired military personnel as teachers and wants to attract more.
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Virginia’s U.S. Senators Kaine and Warner back statehood for D.C.
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FROM the Offices of Sen. Kaine and Warner 01/25/23 / Breaking News / Federal Government / Money & Taxes / State Government /
U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine have joined Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and other colleagues in introducing legislation to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state. The Washington, D.C. Admission Act would grant D.C. citizens full congressional representation.
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Feds to give PWC $10 million+ for critical infrastructure and community support projects
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FROM STAFF REPORTS 01/18/23 / Breaking News / Federal Government / Health & Safety / Local Government / Money & Taxes / Politics /
Congressional representatives deliver &10 million in federal funds for six projects in Prince William County.
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Prince William County to acquire Elite Shooting Sports in Manassas to advance police training
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FROM Prince William County Police Reports 01/18/23 / Breaking News / Health & Safety / Local Government / Manassas / Money & Taxes / Police & Fire Beat / Real Estate /
Prince William Board of County Supervisors has approved a contract to acquire Elite Shooting Sports, at 7751 Doane Drive in Manassas to expand training for the PWC Police Department. The owner of the current facility is seeking to retire and signed the contract with the County for purchase, estimated at $22 million, about $6 million less than the estimated cost of a new facility.
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PWC to earmark $2.7 million for help with rent through Human Services Alliance of Greater PW
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FROM Prince William County Government 01/17/23 / Breaking News / Health & Safety / Local Government / Money & Taxes / Nonprofits /
Prince William County government will partner with the Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William to allocate $2.7 million of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding for area housing rental assistance.
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NOVEC and its trade association, VMDAEC, invite scholarship applications
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FROM NOVEC and VMDAEC 01/12/23 / Business / Education / Money & Taxes /
Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative and the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives are offering college, vocational, and trade school scholarships to public, private, and home-schooled high school seniors whose families receive electricity from electric cooperatives.
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State program helps area businesses expand into international markets
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FROM the Office of Gov. Glenn Youngkin 01/12/23 / Breaking News / Business / Money & Taxes / State Government /
Ten Virginia companies are expanding into global markets through the Commonwealth’s Trade Accelerator Program
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Bank robbery in Woodbridge Wednesday afternoon
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FROM Prince William County Police Department Reports 01/12/23 / Business / Health & Safety / Money & Taxes / People & Places / Police & Fire Beat / Woodbridge /
On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 2:09PM, Prince William County Police officers responded to the Truist Bank located at 16541 River Ridge Blvd. in Woodbridge (22191) to investigate a robbery.
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Armed suspect arrested at a Haymarket church, while service in progress Sept. 24
The investigation revealed that Fairfax County police contacted Prince William County police after their agency received information from police in Anne Arundel County, MD regarding a citizen residing in Laurel who reported recent suspicious and concerning online postings on Instagram from an individual later identified as the accused. In the postings, vague threats of violence were made, some of which included images of a location later determined to be Park Valley Church in Haymarket.
