Sears Holdings which owns Kmart is revving up their efforts to shut 50 unprofitable stores including the Chester store on Jeffferson Davis Highway. In May of 2015, the Kmart in Colonial Heights closed. At this time, it is expected that the store will close in June with liquidation sales beginning this month. Sears is struggling as well, the chain’s same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, dropped 6.9 percent in the most recent quarter. They fell 7.2 percent at Kmart. According to “Business Insider,” Sears is now trying to stem the losses from underperforming stores by…
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Sunflower Gardens, a new assisted living facility in North Prince George, welcomed over a hundred guests to its open house and tours of its new Alzheimer’s Specialty Center last Wednesday. The new 35,000 sq. ft. unit, will house 48 residents with 16 people in each of the three neighborhoods that are connected to a town center. The new addition is connected to the current building for staff and use of the full kitchen in the main building. Pictured is Jacob Gotchall, director of marketing and admissions giving a tour of the town center. The new center will be accepting residents…
Spring has sprung in Chester. Azaleas are bursting in color, Wisteria blooms are dangling from the tops of trees, tulips are popping up and gardeners are busy in their yards bringing life back in order. April is a busy time for gardeners as well as for members of garden clubs all over Virginia. The Chester Garden Club is not sitting still. Along with tending to their own gardens, members have been busy sprucing up the community’s public garden beds they tend to at the entrance sign of Chester and the corner of Harrowgate and West Hundred Roads. Members have also…
One of the major beneficiaries of the Morse telegraph was the American railroad system. The telegraph made it possible to accurately track the position of trains by passing critical information between railroad stations. The Richmond-Petersburg Railroad had been previously dependent on lamps and other less reliable means could now be confirmed by railroad dispatchers. A little known fact is that technically, Morse had developed the first system of truly digital communications, a concept which has only recently entered commercial use. His alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters, represented by long and short electrical bursts, is not unlike the basis of the…
APRIL 6 CHESTER CHOICS BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP – 10:30 a.m. until Noon. Chester Library. “A Beautiful Mind” by Sylvia Nasar will be discussed. No registration required. BE A HERO – SAVE THE BEES; SAVE THE FOOD – 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. Enon Library. Register online at library.chesterfield.gov WARM SEASON LAWN CARE – 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Central Library. The warm season grasses most adaptable to our region are Bermuda grass and zoysia grass. Mid-spring through mid-summer is the optimum time to plant these warm-season grasses in the Richmond area. Learn from a Chesterfield County Master Gardener what to…
Virginia State University recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its brand new $84 million Multi-Purpose Center. The 167,000 gross sq. ft. event facility has approximately 5,200 fixed seats and can accommodate nearly 6,200 for events. The facility is the home of Trojan basketball and volleyball, and will include food and retail services, media spaces, classrooms and faculty offices, a wellness center and conference/meeting spaces. Upcoming event on the schedule for VSU’s Multi-Purpose Center will be the Virginia State University Step Show on Saturday, April 16 at 7 p.m. Tickets on sale at ticketmaster.com or 1-800-745-3000. Photo courtesy of Virginia…
Virginia State University will host a presentation by Ira Wallace, Central Virginia master gardener and owner of the cooperative Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. The presentation, Family Heirloom Seeds: Saving Our Stories, Saving Biodiversity, will be held on Thursday, April 7 at 3:30 PM in the Engineering Auditorium. Wallace coordinates variety selection and new seed grower contracts at Southern Exposure. She is also an organizer of the annual Heritage Harvest Festival in Monticello, and author of The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, which offers regional-specific information for area gardeners. Acorn Community, the home of the Southern Exposure Seed…
The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia will present their Eighth Annual “Antiques Evaluation” Fundraiser on Saturday, April 16, 2016 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., at the new North Courthouse Road library, 325 Courthouse, N. Chesterfield. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Chesterfield Historical Society. Oral evaluations will be provided on a wide variety of items as well as on detailed photos of items. Professional evaluators participating in this event include John Whiting of Whiting’s Old Paper (documents, sheet music, postcards, magazines, posters and maps); Bill McDonald of Vintage Toy & Racing Collectibles (toys, models, die-casts, trading cards and…
The Chester Station Camp No.1503, Sons of Confederate Veterans will celebrate Confederate History month in Virginia with a flag Ceremony on Saturday, April 9, beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the Confederate Monument on the historic 1917 Chesterfield Courthouse Green located at 10011 Iron Bridge Rd. Members and friends will place at the monument a miniature of the Second National flag inscribed with the name, rank and unit of their ancestor. The flags will be left in place for the duration of the month. Following the flag ceremony, a reception will be held at the Chesterfield Museum.
Interested in making your home and garden more sustainable? Just sign up for the Landscape for Life educational series. Classes meet once a week for six weeks on Tuesdays, April 5 through May 10, 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. Participants are taught how to create and maintain healthy and beautiful landscapes by using native soils and the climate to minimize impacts on our local watersheds. Through the classes, homeowners learn how to evaluate and work with the natural systems interacting on their own properties. Then, they use this knowledge to create and maintain landscapes that benefit their families and communities. The…