July 9, 2015 will be remembered as a date of great accomplishment in Western Prince William County. On this day representatives of government departments and construction businesses gathered at 7500 Iron Bar Lane in the Virginia Gateway Shopping Center for a ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the Gainesville Interchange.

Seven members of the Prince William County School Board will be among nearly 1,000 Virginia school board members, educators, governing officials, attorneys, and legislators attending the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA) 30th annual Conference on Education in Richmond, VA on July 21.

Dominion Power will host an open house on Wednesday, July 15, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Battlefield High School in Haymarket to further discuss the Haymarket Transmission Project with residents in the community.

The Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College needs part-time adjunct faculty to teach courses in several disciplines. Interested people are encouraged to attend a job fair at the campus July 16 from 6 to 8 p.m.

“Despite the record decrease in traffic deaths over this past holiday weekend, the fact that DUI arrests increased by almost 20 percent is of extreme concern,” said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent, in a press release. As part of the Operation C.A.R.E. enforcement effort, Virginia State Police troopers arrested 96 impaired drivers for DUI—an increase from the 77 DUI arrests made over the July 4 holiday in 2014.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, Secretary of Technology Karen Jackson and Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth Nelson Moe officially invite nominations for the 2015 Governor’s Technology Awards to recognize the success of public sector information technology (IT) projects that improve government service delivery and efficiency.

Outpatients in Virginia hospitals under observation orders from their doctors will be notified of their status, verbally and in writing, under a new state law that took effect July 1, 2015. Patients will also be asked to sign a form letter acknowledging that they understand they are outpatients, even though they may spend the night in a hospital bed and receive a meal.

To ensure the Fourth of July holiday is as safe as possible, Virginia State Police has increased patrols during the long holiday weekend.