The deadline is fast approaching to sign children up for the SACC before- and after- school care--for parents and guardians who want the care to start the same day school opens for fall. And some schools have a waiting list.

Students from Metz Middle School and Manassas Park Middle School will host a robotics exhibition/competition as a finale to their week-long robotics summer camp on Friday, Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Manassas Museum. Admission will be free during this time.

On Wednesday, August 7, members of Battlefield High School’s Marching Bobcats will greet and thank about 100 Honor Flight veterans around noon at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Few, if any, would question the need for more swim lanes in Prince William County. The Prince William County School Board is looking at an aquatics facility to be located at the school division's 12th high school, set to open in the fall of 2016. The board is split as to the advisability of the proposed facility.

Northern Virginia Community College will be open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 17 to help enable fall semester students talk to counselors, learn about financial aid, register for courses, purchase books and more.

The Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College will again offer its popular free “ESL for Employment” course Aug. 21 to Sept. 18.

Members of the Brentsville High School Class of 1954 "want to make sure the building is not destroyed and" are preparing a petition to present to the Prince William County School Board that it be preserved," according to Helen Graves, a member of the class.

Two series of Prince William Cooperative Extension's popular anger management course, "When Families Get Angry," begin in July. One course meets in Woodbridge. The other course meets in Manassas. Each course runs for six weeks on Tuesday evenings.