Latest articles by Tara Donaldson

• Angel Food brings grocery savings to everyone
• New Gainesville library is on hold for now
• Real estate taxes will rise slightly
• Governor reverses course on school funding
• Peacor is new county executive
• Haymarket church collects for Haiti
• Rest stops will re-open
• Supreme Court OKs Powell execution
• Official: no plans to bring back Avendale proposal
• Avendale deferred
• Medical Missionaries aim to help quake victims
• Tis the season to be giving
• County responds to lawsuit against police
• Substitute teacher charged with assaulting student
• County eyes 2% tax hike
• Seniors celebrate the season at NOVA
• County finishes US 15 upgrades
• Christmas starts Dec. 4 in Manassas
• Golden Ticket has been found
• SERVE gears up for Thanksgiving
• 15-year-old charged in serial attacks on women
• Board prepares for more budget cuts in the coming year
• Buckland – history revisited
• Bobcats plow down Raiders
• PW drops loitering case against Latino men; ACLU claims partial victory
• Cuccinelli aims for middle line in AG's race
• Youth For Tomorrow fair is Saturday
• Bolling, Wagner debate canceled
• Supervisors mull ditching county golf courses
• Citizen satisfaction survey results announced
• Homer assesses transportation crisis
• Study: 75 percent of youth unfit for service
• PW Fair continues through Saturday
• PW Fair starts Friday
• PW assesses fraud damage
• County evaluates immigration crackdown
• A different kind of babysitter
• Powell granted stay of execution
• July 4 events abound
• Silver Lake deal sealed
• Deeds wins Democratic Primary
• PW employees charged with stealing millions
• County eliminates car decals
• Farmer's markets are open for the season
• Boundary plans change again
• Board OKs PW budget, taxes
• County board opts for $1.21 tax rate
• Officials seek residents who may have contracted measles
• High school boundary changes underway
• Board prepares to finalize budget
• Kaine weighs in on unemployment
• House rejects expansion of unemployment benefits
• Senate OKs unemployment expansion
• Senate fails to override triggerman rule
• PW Board rejects US 29 widening through Buckland
• House overrides triggerman veto
• Haymarket couple launches mobile laser tag business
• PW Board sets development changes in motion
• PW board caps tax rate at $1.21
• Kaine assesses General Assembly session
• PW board struggles over tax rate
• Budget plan slashes spending, taxes
• School superintendents take aim at Kaine budget plan
• No tickets, no problem: the view from the back of the inauguration crowd
• PW plans to close group homes for teens
• Board dissolves Gainesville District Volunteer Fire and Rescue
• BDHS teen killed in crash
• Stewart: PW is strong but hard times lie ahead
• 2008: Good riddance to a bad year
• Heathcote, Linton Hall open
• PW slashes building plans
• Police reports: 12-17
• Work continues on GMU's Performing Arts Center
• Gas line ruptures in Gainesville
• County announces layoffs
• Brentsville teacher accused of sex crimes with students
• SERVE provides Thanksgiving dinner for western PW families
• PW employee home-buying plan moves forward
• PW aims to lower real estate tax bills
• Warner trounces Gilmore
• New jail addition opens
• Police, FBI bust cocaine ring
• Student reportedly raped in Brentsville High bathroom
• Buckland Bridge dedicated
• A tale of two governors: Warner vs. Gilmore
• VDOT takes a major hit
• Number of ESOL students drops
• Warner, Gilmore spar for Senate seat
• SERVE struggles in tough economy
• Immigration crackdown gets mixed reviews
• Back to school
• Brentsville named Underground Railroad site
• County Fair returns
• Bull Run precinct likely to move
• Officials assess 9-1-1 breakdown
• Madison Crescent Starbucks to close
• Legislature gives up on transportation fix
• House adopts road fix for Northern Virginia
• Statewide transportation funding plans killed
• Full House to consider Kaine’s tax hike proposal
• Legislators to consider transportation tax hikes
• House to consider tax plans in two weeks
• Senate passes tax hike
• Gridlock
• Transportation solution unlikely
• Legislators throw down road blocks in transportation session
• No consensus on transportation
• Transportation fight begins
• Warner touts bipartisanship in U.S. Senate run
• Senior Day Program about to close
• Region gears up for transportation session
• Tiger graduates urged to be 'bold,' 'brave' in search for success
• Gilmore kicks off Senate campaign in Manassas
• Connolly leads in early returns
• Immigration crackdown changes again
• Gilmore beats Marshall for GOP nod
• Gilmore leads Marshall in GOP Convention
• PW eyes affordable housing for employees
• PW Board cuts roads budget
• Kaine tries to sell tax hike
• Flood damage widespread but county ‘dodged the bullet’
• Transportation problems return to forefront
• Board sets tax rate, new immigration policy
• Board eyes 97-cent tax rate; more budget cuts
• Board may need reserve funds to balance PW budget
• Advocates take to the streets to battle MS
• Stewart drops bid for lieutenant governor
• Bolling to run again for lt. gov.
• Special budget meeting called for March 25 as supervisors seek to end stalemate
• Board still can't agree on tax rate
• School construction bonds approved -- for now
• Board still at impasse on tax rate
• Board gives up on tax decision for the night
• Board aproves Park Valley Church
• Board hits budget impasse
• PW budget proposed
• Board approves immigration funding
• Immigration costs higher than expected
• Report chronicles last moments of fallen firefighter
• Seeking transportation alternatives
• 2007: A look back on a turbulent year
• PW Board OKs sewer for Rural Crescent church