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May 16, 2012  RSS feed
As a kid, honeybees fascinated county beekeeper Ken Woodard. He’d catch honeybees in his yard while growing up in Georgia and then put them in jars with pieces of blooming clover, hoping they’d make honey. Later as an adult, that interest led to Woodard ordering his first hive from the Sears & Roebuck farming catalogue in 1980. More...

More than one-third of Chesterfield County’s small but growing number of foreign-born residents came here within the past decade, bringing with them lower levels of education and income and higher levels of poverty than their predecessors, according to newly released data. More...

A Cosby High School student faces a felony charge after some fellow students reported to police that they overheard him threatening to bomb the school. More...

SCHOOL BOARD
A long-planned second specialty center for health science is now scheduled to open in 2013, and county school officials are getting ready to start recruiting the first students for it this fall. More...
Woman dies in fire at remote mobile home The isolated location of a Chesterfield woman’s mobile home may have been a factor in the loss of her life in a fire last week. More...
The trails at Robious Landing Park, located in northwest Chesterfield County, move easily along the landscape like their companion, the James River, which flows lazily along the park’s shoreline. More...
Bomb explodes, mailboxes damaged in Brandy Oaks
A neighborhood in the Winterpock area had its quiet shattered recently by a series of acts of vandalism. The Chesterfield County Police Department said a bottle bomb exploded around 2:30 a.m. on May 3 in the 13500 block of Brandy Oaks Road in the Brandy Oaks subdivision off Beach Road. More...
Time to make a bucket list?
Yesterday someone asked me if I had a “bucket list.” I think it was a follow-up to a joke circulating on the Internet. I laughed and brushed it off, but it keeps running through my mind – like I ought to have one. I have always thought I wouldn’t because what would I do if I got to the end of the list? Do I start another one, or am I tempting fate? More...
Thanks for the story on the Cosby band On behalf of the Cosby Titan Band, I want to say thank you. The article in [the April 25 issue] was awesome, and we all want to let you know how much we appreciated it. Thank you for doing such a great job of informing everyone about the wonderful things that are happening in our community. More...
Thursday, May 17 Kiwanis Club of Midlothian weekly meeting, 7:30-8:30 a.m., Martin’s - Ukrops Cafe Conference Room, second level, 11361 Midlothian Turnpike, Richmond. Jim Friedline, 379- 7915, www.midlo thiankiwanis.org. More...
If Pierre Lee can snuff fires as deftly as he plays football, Chesterfield County will be a safer place to live. A rookie fireman at Station No. 7 (beside old Clover Hill High), Lee is also employed by the Richmond Raiders of the Pro Indoor Football League. You could say he’s a full-time fireman and a part-time defensive back. More...