Gainesville Supervisor Pete Candland will hold three meetings with residents in the next week to discuss the proposed Prince William County budget. The meetings are April 7 in Heritage Hunt, April 9 in Manassas and April 13 at the Haymarket Gainesville Library.

Recycling this spring can create more garage or basement space, bring in extra cash through a reward and save you money through lowering your electric bill if you are a Dominion Power customer. All it takes is a decision to part ways with an old inefficient refrigerator or freezer, says a Dominion Virginia Power news release.

April public meetings of the Prince William County School Board will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 and April 20 in the School Board Meeting Room, 14715 Bristow Road, Manassas.

Prince William County School Board and Board of County Supervisors (BOCS) will meet in closed session on Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss proposed future school sites.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced March 28 that Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, a global health care leader, will invest $168 million to expand its manufacturing operation near the Town of Elkton in Rockingham County.

Congressmen seek to halt taxes from being improperly being withheld on combat-injured veterans' severance pay and to make back payments to those whose veterans' severance pay was taxed.

The Committee of 100 will host a discussion March 17 at 7:45 p.m. at the Wyndam Garden Hotel, 10800 Van Dor Lane, in Manassas on how Prince William County should choose locations for future schools.

Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) will accept applications from groups until April 14, 2016 for United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service Specialty Crop Block Grant funding up to $60,000 per project