Prince William Times 09/16/2021

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OVER HILL AND DALE: Cross country results from Oatlands meet, SPORTS, Pages 17-18

September 16, 2021 | Vol. 20, No. 37 | 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.

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The Town of Dumfries Planning Commission voted unanimously Sept. 13 to recommend approval of a conditional use permit for “The Rose,” a $389 million new gaming facility proposed near the site of the Potomac Landfill off Interstate 95 in Dumfries.

PHOTOS BY DOUG STROUD

Left: Brenda Lynch, who now lives in Arkansas, remembers her husband, James T. Lynch Jr., a Prince William County resident and civilian electronics technician who was killed at the Pentagon on 9/11. Right: Supervisor Victor Angry, D-Neabsco, holds a flag during the ceremony.

‘Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday’

‘The Rose’ heads to the town council on Sept. 21 By Daniel Berti

Times Staff Writer

A total of 22 Prince William area residents died during the terrorist attacks, the most of any jurisdiction in the Washington area, said Ann Wheeler, chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.

“The Rose” gaming facility and hotel in Dumfries is one step closer to becoming a reality. Dumfries planning commissioners voted unanimously Monday, Sept. 13, to recommend approval of the $389 million gaming and entertainment destination. Now, the project heads to Dumfries Town Council, which is expected to hold a public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 21, on a rezoning and conditional use permit needed for the project. The casino-sized gaming facility will feature a hotel with up to 305 rooms, eight restaurants, a 1,500-seat theatre and 175,000 square feet of gaming space on land adjacent to the current site of the Potomac Landfill, located off Interstate 95 and Va. 234. According to Virginia law, gambling will be limited to off-track betting and historic horse race betting machines, which are similar to slot machines.

See 9/11, page 8

See THE ROSE, page 4

Widow of local 9/11 victim speaks at county ceremony By Aileen Streng

Contributing Writer

A remembrance service marking the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, drew about 100 people to Prince William County’s Liberty Memorial fountain on Friday, Sept. 10. It was very personal to one of them. “I lost my husband that day and my life changed. We had planned things we were doing to do when we both retired, and that was just not going to happen,” said Brenda Lynch, whose husband, James T. Lynch Jr., was among the 184 killed in the attack on the Pentagon. “Sometimes it feels like it was 20 years ago, and sometimes it feels like it was yesterday,” she said.

Casino-sized gaming complex planned for Dumfries advances

Prince William police and fire department officers salute during a wreath-laying during the county’s ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

For yard waste, it’s paper, not plastic See Page 9.

School board mulls COVID-19 vaccine requirement for staff See Page 3.

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