Governor Terry McAuliffe says Ithaca will be filmed in Virginia this summer, with actress Meg Ryan directing and playing a role in the movie along with Sam Shepard and Ryan’s son, Jack Quaid. Tom Hanks and his production company Playtone will be executive producers on the film set during WW II and based on William Saroyan’s 1942 book The Human Comedy.

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

Atif Qarni, who teaches pre-algebra to eighth grade students at Beville Middle School in Woodbridge, has been appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe to serve on the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority, according to a news release from the governor's office.

On Saturday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College will sponsor NOVA Day at the Manassas Mall, 8300 Sudley Road, Manassas.

Members of the VFW Post 7589 in Manassas will conduct a Memorial Day service at 8:30 a.m. May 26 followed by placing American flags on the graves of veterans at Manassas Cemetery.

Sally Adams, program coordinator for the United Methodist Women at Old Bridge UMC said she first became aware of local human trafficking issues while attending an event sponsored by the Soroptomists. "People think it just happens in Cambodia," Adams said. "But it happens here and we can't turn the other way."

Since 2000, Joe McGill Jr. has been traveling across the country sleeping in and interpreting original slave quarters to raise awareness of the enslaved population who lived in them. He will be coming to two slave quarters in Manassas VA May 15-17.

Old Bridge United Methodist Church will hold a workshop open to the public on the 5 W’s of Human Trafficking on Saturday, June 7, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. and what you can do about the issue. The church is located at 3966 Old Bridge Rd., Woodbridge VA 22192.