An American Life – Potomac News Online

Angela Ford frets about the safety of her four sons, especially at her Martin Drive home. Two and a half years ago, the City of Manassas Park raised the speed limit to 25 mph on her street, and transformed it into a two-way road. “I take my 6-year-old son to ride his bike and I…

By KIPP HANLEY [email protected] WASHINGTON, D.C. Right now, D.C. United rookie defender David Stokes is the sideshow on a playoff-contending team. The halftime sideshow, that is. During halftime of Wednesday’s United-Colorado Rapids match, Stokes was bouncing the ball back and forth with his fellow reserves in one corner of the field while two swashbuckling actors…

While children with cat muzzles and whiskers painted on their faces ran through the streets of Manassas on Saturday during the annual Fall Jubilee, adults danced to live music beneath the pavilion or browsed at the street festival. Brandi Ensor, Amanda Ward and Brittany Johnson wandered among the white tents where 100 or so vendors…

The signs are only slightly visible but a $22 million natural gas pipeline is under construction through the placid neighborhood of Lake Ridge. “I haven’t seen any actual digging in the ground,” said Supervisor Ruth T. Griggs, R-Occoquan, “but I have seen surveyors making sure they’re in the right place.” Clearing and grading for the…

Prince William County police reported the following incidents: • A big screen television, stereo, digital camera, PlayStation, bottles of wine and liquor and tennis shoes valued at a combined $5,000 were stolen from a home in the 11600 block of Rumford Court in Lake Ridge on Thursday between 6:35 a.m. and 12:32 p.m. • A…

Terry and his wife Jane Lemons have a son going into third grade at Cedar Point Elementary School in Bristow and a daughter old enough for kindergarten in 2004. Their son began kindergarten at Bristow Run Elementary School and then was relocated to Cedar Point in 2001, the year it opened. Both worry their children…