The second community meeting to discuss elementary boundary changes related to the opening of the “Ferlazzo” Elementary School at 5710 Liberty Hill Court, Woodbridge 22193, will be held Wednesday, Dec. 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Hylton High School Auditorium.

A second public meeting on a proposed PW Parkway Elementary School at Chinn Park will be held on Tuesday Dec. 15, from 7-9 p.m. at Gar-Field High School, 14000 Smoketown Road, Woodbridge, VA 22192

Dr. Sam Hill, the provost for the Woodbridge Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, a position he has held since 2005, has been selected as Grand Marshal for the Lake Ridge Santa Parade on Dec. 12. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Prince William Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Manassas/PW Center for the Arts. He is also a member of the Lake Ridge Rotary Club.

On Tuesday Nov. 23, 2015, Dr. David Huckestein, principal of Woodbridge Sr. High School, announced he is "stepping down after 13 years as a high school principal, nearly nine of which I have proudly served here at Woodbridge Senior High School."

Former ESOL students will share their experiences with the college process and there will be breakout sessions on the topics of two-year and four-year college information and paying for college, on Thursday, Dec. 10, 6–7:30 p.m., when Gar-Field High School on Smoketown Road in Woodbridge hosts ESOL College Information Night.

Plans for a new elementary school proposed for a site off Chinn Park Drive in Lake Ridge will be discussed at a public meeting hosted by Prince William County Schools' Office of Facilities Services, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., at Beville Middle School, 4901 Dale Boulevard, Woodbridge.

On Nov. 30, from 7-8:30 p.m., Del. Richard Anderson will host an orientation night for prospective student participants in his "Future Delegate" program. The meeting will be held in Board of County Supervisors Chambers at the McCoart Government Center at 1 County Complex Court, Woodbridge, VA.

It’s hard to picture what a memory chip looks like unless you see it up close, and that’s what Pennington students did on an after-school field trip to Micron Technologies in Manassas. It was eye-opening for students when they learned they were in the place that produces most of the memory chips made in the United States.