City of Manassas government has created an online public records database at http://www.manassascity.org/publicrecords Recor.ds will continue to be added to the database as they are digitized and indexed. City Council meeting minutes back to 1963 are currently being digitized and will be added within the coming months.

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.

The National Park Service will host a preview screening at Manassas National Battlefield Park March 29 of Civil War: The Untold Story, a visually stunning new five-part documentary series narrated by Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) and produced for public television.

March 20 discussions will focus on how some county and state agencies could use the existing Nokesville Elementary School, Nokesville Neighborhood Library could be expanded and office space could be offered for rent.

People who want to earn a nationally recognized designation in tourism ambassadorship should register now to take the class being offered in Manassas on March 12 at the Manassas Museum, in downtown Manassas.

Since 2008, Ed W. Clark has served the Manassas National Battlefield Park as superintendent. Beginning February 9, Clark will be the new superintendent at the Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site in Adams County, Pa.

Universal Human Rights Day will be marked in Prince William County on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, at 9 a.m. in the James J. McCoart Government Building, in Woodbridge. The program includes breakfast, speeches, a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and awards.