Workshops at the expo will include: “Are you Ready to Rent,” “Are You Ready to Buy,” “The ABCs of Credit Scores,” “Rental and Home Buying Market Overviews,” and “Household Finance.” In addition people will also have the chance to get one-on-one consultations designed to help them get where they want to be and live in Northern Virginia,

Friends of Rural Crescent Energized (FORCE) will hold an informational update meeting on the proposed mosque at the corner of Schaeffer Lane and Vint Hill Road in Nokesville. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department on Marsteller Drive.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond ruled on Feb. 17 in favor of the Commonwealth's 30-year moratorium on mining uranium in the Commonwealth. The majority of a three judge panel found that nothing in the federal Atomic Energy Act preempts the state's ability to regulate and restrict conventional uranium mining within its borders, according to a news release from the office of Attorney General Mark Herring.

Patriot High School in Nokesville will hold an information session on all its specialty programs on Wednesday, January 18 at 7 p.m. Patriot offers a two-year program in Building Trades and a two-year program in Culinary Arts, among other programs.

“Potomac Shores” Elementary School Naming Committee will hold a community input session to receive name suggestions for the “Potomac Shores” Elementary School, under construction at 2500 River Heritage Blvd, in Dumfries. The session is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Potomac High School in Dumfries.

The Prince William County Planning Commission will be holding a work session on the Comprehensive Plan Update on January 18, 2017 at 7 PM in the Potomac Conference Room, 1 County Complex Ct., Woodbridge, VA.

I like to tell folks in discussing the services Keep Prince William Beautiful provides that we clean up not just for the sake of keeping things beautiful, but rather so our people can do beautiful things. When the park is clean, more kids will go. Home values are higher in clean neighborhoods; new businesses open on vibrant and clean streets; when we take pride and keep it beautiful, our communities are safer and stronger.

In a case before the Virginia Court of Appeals, Attorney General Mark R. Herring's office has successfully defended Virginia's statute that bans "displaying [a] noose on property of another or a highway or other public place with intent to intimidate." The Court found that the statute does not violate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and that display of a noose on private property can still constitute display in a "public place."