Manassas Journal Messenger | FRIDAY NIGHT HIGHLIGHTS | High school football in Prince William, Manassas, Culpeper and the surrounding area

From staff reports MANASSAS PARK — The Manassas Park Cougars pulled off their biggest win of the season when senior J.J. Dufour nailed a 3-pointer at the buzzer to knock off Clarke County, 50-48, on Tuesday. The Eagles were tied for first place in the Bull Run District with Brentsville at 9-1 heading into the…

By DAN CLENDANIEL Special to the Potomac News & Manassas Journal Messenger WOODBRIDGE — Hylton’s Mike Crutchman waited a long time for his opportunity to play and last night made the most of it. The Bulldogs were down to their last strike in the seventh inning against Stonewall Jackson when Crutchman hit a soft line…

At the time he made it, Jernavis Draughn’s (Potomac ’00) decision to leave a Division I program like American University for the confines of junior college basketball in Hagerstown, Md. might have seemed like a step back in his career. He certainly thought so. He had started six games for the Eagles as a freshman,…

Aletha A. Caterino Aletha A. “Dolly” Caterino, 70, of Manassas, died Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001, at Prince William Hospital, Manassas. She was born in Boston, the daughter of the late N. Edward Caterino Sr. and Leona A. Caterino. She was a resident of Potomac Place Adult Residence in Woodbridge before moving to Annaburg Manor in…

Regular customers of some Food Lion stores will see a big difference in them this Saturday. The company’s newest brand, Bottom Dollar Food, changes two more stores this weekend — in Manassas and Chantilly. The stores mark the completion of the firm’s plans to transform 14 Food Lion stores in the Washington Metropolitan Region into…

Manassas resident Betty Busby has lived on the south side of Grant Avenue for 72 years. She likes that neighborhood just the way it is, sans the planned 5.35-acre commercial development that might be in her neighborhood’s midst as early as fall 2006. She and other residents of the south Grant Avenue corridor — which…