el. Richard L. Anderson (Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Retired), will present the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to surviving family members of Mr. Albert L. Jones, Sr., of Manassas, who served during World War II as a wartime member of the Auxiliary of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).

On Thursday, April 9, at 3:15 p.m., the bell in the Occoquan Town Hall rang for four minutes to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and the end of the American Civil War.

Manassas City Beautification Committee will conduct a tree planting and recognition of Arbor Day poster contest winners ceremony at Liberia Plantation on Friday, April 24, at 10 a.m.

The historical authenticity of Virginia continues to draw film production to the state. The feature film Josephine will be filming in Halifax County this spring, helmed by Academy of Country Music award-winner Rory Feek. Josephine is a Civil War drama about a woman who enlists in the confederate army as a man in order to find her missing husband…and is based on actual letters and events.

Governor Terry McAuliffe March 24 announced the protection of 65 acres of Civil War battlefield in Williamsburg. The land is being donated by Anheuser-Busch to the Civil War Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to preserving America’s battlegrounds. The property played a pivotal role in the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg, the first pitched battle of the Peninsula Campaign.

Fred M. Lynn MS will celebrate its long history and community roots on Friday, March 20, 6 to 8 p.m. in the school's main gymnasium at 1650 Prince William Pkwy., Woodbridge, VA 22191.

Local teenager Danielle Lyle was featured in a nationally aired television commercial for the Holocaust Memorial Museum after writing and illustrating a children’s book about the Holocaust.

With passion, poise, and presence, six finalists in the 25th Annual Youth Oratorical Contest wowed the audience of 2,300 in the Hylton Memorial Chapel on MLK Day. Barely had students ended their speeches when the audience rose to give standing ovations, interrupting the speakers numerous times.