Gov. Glenn Youngkin has ordered the flags of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia be flown at half-staff April 16 in memory and respect for the 17th Anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting which took the lives of 32 people.

For the seventh year, ERA Blue Diamond Realty on Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge, is preparing for the 2014 holiday season by teaming up with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves as a drop off location for the Marine Corps annual Toys for Tots Program.

Alzheimer's Association will present two workshops Dec. 1 and Dec. 8 in Lake Ridge on “Living with Alzheimer’s: For Late-Stage Caregivers.” The series is sequential and should be taken in order.

The craft beer industry in Virginia got a boost Nov. 21 when Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that Black Hops Farm, LLC in nearby Loudoun County will initially convert 15 acres of former pasture land into a hopsyard and build a new processing facility, thus becoming the largest hopsyard in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic’s first commercial-scale hops production and processing facility.

Students from the River Falls, Coventry Glen, Bacon Race, Reid’s Prospect, and Cannon Bluff communities off Davis Ford Road in Woodbridge will attend the county’s newest high school being built in Manassas under a revised boundary plan adopted at the Prince William Çounty School Board’s November 18 meeting.

Need a high school diploma to advance in your career? If you have acquired academic skills through life and work experiences and can demonstrate what you have learned, the National External Diploma Program (NEDP) could be for you.

The Governor's School @ Innovation Park. The Governor's School @ Innovation Park in Manassas will host an information meeting for parents and prospective students from PW County, Manassas and Manassas Park high schools on Tuesday, December 9 at 7 p.m. in room 1101 at the Edward L. Kelly Leadership Center, 14715 Bristow Road, Manassas, VA 20112. (near the county landfill).

Standards of Quality and teachers' salaries are Prince William County School Board's top two issues for state funding according to a news release.

Murder Investigation *UPDATE – On November 18th, detectives from the Homicide Unit identified the shooter involved in the murder of Christopher Weaver which occurred in the 13400 block of Keating Dr in Woodbridge on November 16th.