BATTLEFIELD LACROSSE: The Bobcats boys and girls fell in state finals. SPORTS, PAGES 14-15
June 16, 2022 | Vol. 21, No. 24 | www.princewilliamtimes.com | $1.00 Covering Prince William County and surrounding communities, including Gainesville, Haymarket, Dumfries, Occoquan, Quantico and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
Plan to bury coal ash at Possum Point not final, supervisor says By Jill Palermo
Potomac Shores continue to raise objections. Dominion During a town Energy wants to hall meeting leave its 4.6 milTuesday night, lion cubic yards residents faced of toxic coal ash with the prospect Andrea Bailey forever buried of living near in a new landfill Dominion Enerat Possum Point near the gy’s proposed 190-foot-tall banks of the Potomac Riv- coal ash landfill once again er. But residents who live voiced their myriad concerns near the power plant on Possum Point and at nearby See ASH, page 2 Times Staff Writer
PHOTO BY CHER MUZYK
March for Our Lives participants proceed on Atlas Walk Way toward Linton Hall Road led by the Wright family of Centreville, dressed in orange, and organizer Marilyn Karp. The Gainesville event was one of more than 400 that took place around the country on Saturday, June 11, in response to recent gun massacres in New York and Texas.
‘Together, we might be able to do something about it.’
Gainesville March for Our Lives rally calls for an end to gun violence By Cher Muzyk
Times Staff Writer
Holding homemade signs calling for an end to gun violence, about 50 people took part in a March For Our Lives event in Gainesville on Saturday, one of more than 400 that occurred around the country in the wake of recent mass shootings in New York and Texas. The marchers walked along Linton Hall Road to the Regal Movie Theater parking lot at the Virginia Gateway shopping center. See MARCH, page 5
Hailey Wright, 9, of Centreville, holds up a sign saying “No More Guns Under Age 21” during the March for Our Lives rally in Gainesville on Saturday, June 11.
Meet Prince William County’s Foster Parents of the Year, page 10
McPike: Stadium bill ‘done for the year’
Unresolved issues, controversial tweet stall effort to bring Commanders to Woodbridge By Jill Palermo
Times Staff Writer
Legislation that would have provided the Washington Commanders a $300 million incentive to build a new football stadium complex in Virginia – perhaps in Woodbridge – is “done for the year,” state State Sen. Sen. Jeremy McPike said Thursday Jeremy McPike afternoon. House Bill 1353 would have set up a state-backed financing mechanism to help pay for part of the $3 billion stadium complex and “mini-city” the team is planning for its new home. But the bill will stay in a conference committee for now, McPike said -- a result he attributed to Commanders Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio’s comments downplaying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol as a “dust up” as well as a litany of unresolved concerns about the stadium bill and the Woodbridge site the team has optioned to purchase for the stadium complex. See STADIUM, page 4
Forest Park High School celebrates the Class of 2022, page 7
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