The Kettle Run High School Band has earned the distinction of a “Virginia Honor Band” for the fifth consecutive year. The school has a Nokesville address and is located in Fauquier County VA.

Students here and around the world will be tuning in to a Webcast this Friday, March 8, for a program on wetlands and why they matter to migratory birds, filmed in Panama by Prince William County Schools staff.

On March 6 from 5 to 7 p.m., the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College will host “An Evening with Sonia Sanchez” in Colgan Theater. The free event was rescheduled from Feb. 25 due to illness. Free parking too.

Taste testers needed for Prince William County School Food and Nutrition Services' 23rd annual Food Show on March 7, with two sessions, 6 to 7 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. at Patriot High School in Nokesville.

Registration is taking place now for an eight-week session that begins March 18 at Northern Virginia Community College. Courses in the eight-week session cover the same material and award the same credits as semester-long classes.

Jill Crayne has been nominated by the Stonewall Jackson High School community for the Prince William County Teacher of the Year Award and the Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award. She teaches 135 students Computer Information Systems and Advanced Computer Information Systems at SJHS in Manassas.

Fourteen teachers have been nominated to become Fauquier County Public School’s 2013 Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher. Parents, school employees and community members were invited to nominate teachers at the school level, and then each school selected one teacher to forward as a nominee. The Washington Post Company Educational Foundation established the Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award to recognize teachers who exemplify excellence in their profession.

Stonewall Jackson High School is hosting an information night for parents of rising freshman (current eighth-graders) on February 5 at 6:30 p.