Saturday trash and recycling collection services held at the Old Nokesville ES and Evergreen Fire Station have been cancelled for Saturday, January 23 due to the inclement weather.

With the cold temperatures finally setting in and an impending snow storms on the horizon you may be rushing about buying toilet paper and bread, thinking about cuddling up by the fire and either hoping for or dreading school closures. While we are all preparing. we would like to remind the community of some of the overlooked dangers of the frigid temperatures and the toll of snow removal.

Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative is preparing for snow that weather forecasters say could reach Northern Virginia on Friday, Jan. 22. "If we get heavy wet snow or ice, we could have trees and branches falling on power lines and causing outages," Larry Shaffer, vice president, System Operations, was quoted as saying in a press release.

Prince William Board of County Supervisors discussed concerns at its Jan. 12 meeting over Dominion Virginia Power's request to discharge of water from its coal ash ponds at Possum Point. The Board directed County staff to attend the Virginia Water Control Board meeting on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 9:30 a.m. and brief the Board on any relevant information arising from the meeting.

Prince William County government will hold a free land development seminar on Thursday, Jan. 28, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., at the Coles Firehouse, 13712 Dumfries Road, Manassas VA 20112. RSVP requested.

Through the 2015 Pesticide Disposal Program 62,261 pounds of unwanted pesticides were removed in Virginia localities including Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park. Participants included agricultural producers, licensed pesticide dealers and pest control firms, golf course operators and homeowners.

State Corporation Commission (SCC) will hold a public hearing in Orange in April on an application by Dominion Virginia Power to build a new 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line between the company’s Remington substation in Fauquier County and the Gordonsville substation in Albemarle County.

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has announced the meeting schedule for the Agency’s State Managed Pollinator Protection Plan to give stakeholders an opportunity to provide input on the development of the plan. The closest meeting to Prince William/Manassas is Jan. 26 in Warrenton.