Members of the U.S. Armed Forces, veterans and their families often qualify for special tax benefits. An IRS news release describes some of the most common deductions and exclusions and tells where to get more information.

The “Buy A Gift Brick” campaign is underway for the Montclair and Gainesville Community libraries as well as the Potomac Plaza Project at Potomac Community Library. The new libraries are scheduled to open in Fall of 2015.

Manassas Councilman Ian Lovejoy is launching a series of roundtables designed to give the business community an opportunity to share insights, ideas, success stories and concerns about the business climate in the City of Manassas and the broader Prince William County area. First roundtable is Sept. 10.

The community has an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs - anonmyously and no questions asked - on National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day September 27th at Novant Health Prince William Medical Center in Manassas.

September 2 was the start of exciting new chapters in more than 86,000 individual stories, as students walked through the doors of 94 Prince William County Public Schools. Their smiles, and more than a few cases of nerves, offered only a glimpse of what lies ahead.

Kick Start Your Health, a free event to fight diabetes will be held on Saturday, Sept. 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Manassas Park Community Center, 99 Adams St. Manassas Park, VA 20111.

Carlos Castro and Diana Paguaga will discuss how they overcame obstacles to achieve success, the role education has played in their lives, tips others can use to reach their goals and more as the iCAD series gets underway at Manassas NOVA.

The Prince William Soil & Water Conservation District (PWSWCD) will begin a series of workshops for small acreage landowners (5-20 acres) who are thinking of establishing, or have already started, a small-scale/alternative agricultural operation.

The Labor Day Holiday saw a slight increase in the number of fatalities compared to the 2013 holiday weekend but fatalities overall are on the decline compared to the same time period in 20133, according to a Virginia State Police news release.