Lucy Beauchamp heads the unified Prince William County chamber of commerce.

Plan to build new Gainesville library in the works; it will come after the new planned library in Montclair.

VA Delegate Richard Anderson (R-51) will hold back-to-back town hall meetings, by phone and in person Oct. 19-20 to share ideas and to get residents' views on legislation for the 2012 General Assembly

Battlefield and Forest Park high schools, home to Prince William County’s two Information Technology (IT) Specialty Programs, are among 30 high schools statewide selected to pilot the Microsoft IT Academy Program.

VDOT Gainesville office has staff to oversee the U.S. 29-Linton Hall-Gallerher Road interchange project.

The 36th Annual Edgar Rohr Memorial Antique Car Meet on Sept. 17 drew a large crowd of vehicle enthusiasts, even though it wasn’t a picture-perfect festival day. About 150 owners drove or trailered their classic (at least 25 years old) vehicles to the show; most were parked on the Manassas Museum’s lawn. There were antique cars and trucks with owners ready to talk about their babies and why they are so proud of their classic vehicles.

About 20 marching bands from throughout Northern Virginia came to compete at Battlefield High School during high winds to show their stuff. Battlefield sponsored the program, but did not compete. Fauquier’s Kettle Run High School took first place in the Class A division.

About 150 students a year enroll in a local institute for classroom study and practical work to learn how to make airplane travel as pleasurable and worry free as possible. They are not aspiring pilots, and they will not be offering drinks, snacks, pillows and blankets in flight. They are, instead, trainees enrolled in the Aviation Institute of Maintenance Manassas (a Washington, D.C. school), which opened in a shared hangar at the Manassas Municipal Airport in 2001 to train mechanics in the aviation field. It later moved to a Godwin Drive location.