If traffic or a busy schedule makes getting a college education difficult, consider Sunrise College and NOVA Next Door offered by the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College.

City of Manassas Fire & Rescue and Police will hold summer camps for incoming freshman of Osbourn High School beginning July 7. During the Fire & Rescue sophomore camp July 28-Aug. 1, students will take their skills to the next level.

Governor Terry McAuliffe June 27 announced a new $6 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to provide training and job placement to 600 unemployed by 2016, according to a news release.

Teachers say children should read all summer to keep their skills sharp and to read what they enjoy. Some of the authors recommended are Patricia Polacco, David Shannon, Mo Williams, Mary Pope Osborne, Jan Brett and Eric Carle. Rated good books by students at Victory Elementary are the graphic novels, and the chapter books series. Victory reading teachers recommend A-Z and Capital Mysteries, the Lunch Lady series, Magic Treehouse, Dear Dumb Diary and Captain Underpants.

Joe McGill, Jr., creator of the Slave Dwelling Project, wants to fill the void when it comes to the public’s knowledge of slave dwellings and the people who lived in them, through engaging educational programs inside old slave quarters across the country.

In the June 20 edition of the Manassas Observer, the dates for the USDA summer feeding program were incorrect. Here are the correct dates.

Battlefield High School is getting a new assistant principal. Woodbridge High School is getting a new counseling director.

Delegate Rich Anderson (R-51), participating for his fifth consecutive time as an instructor in the Boys State program June 19, spoke on "Virginia Government - Origins to Today." He described the history and legislative process of the Virginia General Assembly including how a bill becomes law.