Mega-project: Tranlin moving ahead with engineering
0Tranlin Inc. announced recently it has awarded a contract to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. to design the site work for possibly the largest business in Chesterfield. The award was issued to further develop VASTLY’s (Shandong Tranlin Paper Co. Ltd.) greenfield construction mega-project in Chesterfield County. Some local weekly-news outlets recently called the Tranlin project dead. The $2 billion project, according to Chesterfield Economic Development, is not dead but is in the engineering phase, which includes preliminary engineering and design, as well as environmental permitting, of the new VASTLY facility. The plant will produce biostimulant, soil amendment fertilizers, and paper tissue…
Fire museum opens at Ettrick Station
0By Danielle Ozbat The Chesterfield County Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services opened the Chesterfield County Fire Museum last Sunday. The fire museum is located at fire station No. 12 –the Ettrick Volunteer Fire Department – which was formed in 1928 and was the first fire station built in Chesterfield County.Retired Battalion Chief David Creasy, the founder of the fire museum, was honored at the event and was presented with a resolution from the County Board of Supervisors and a Fire Chief’s award. Creasy began his fire service career in 1968 when he became a volunteer firefighter and is…
New mapping system for everyone
0What does your neighbor’s house assess for? That’s like stalking, but it can be helpful for professionals as well. Chesterfield County’s new GeoSpace and Open GeoSpace allow citizens to search county maps online. The site has a number of layers, which can be turned on and off for a less cluttered look for what someone is looking for. The layers draw on 20 datasets including building footprints, impervious areas (such as driveways, sidewalks, and any place liquid cannot penetrate), street center lines, parcels (property boundaries), addresses, resource protection areas (wetlands), contours, points of interest, and middle school boundaries. For those…
Vulcan supports Ecoff Elementary’s Empowerment Zone
0Wyatt Scott, at right, representing Vulcan Materials Company, which is a PTA community partner, presents to Ecoff Elementary School principal Joshua Cole a $600 check for the Ecoff Empowerment Zone, Family/Community Resource Center. Financial support will be focused on Social Emotional Learning objectives for students, teachers, families, and community members.
Chester Library launches Teen Art Club
0Chester Library is forming a Teen Art Club for interested teens between the ages of 12 to 18 years to share their love of creativity and self-expression. The club will meet the third Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. There is no pre-registration and no fees to join. You must bring your own art project and supplies. The first meeting will be held this Saturday, Oct. 15.
Historic Trees of Chesterfield: Silent Witnesses to our Past
0Chesterfield- The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia (CHSV) will present a lecture on the old trees of Chesterfield County, on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 11a.m. at the County Museum. Museum staff and Chesterfield Master Gardener Pat Roble will discuss Chesterfield’s most notable trees. Learn about the Nunnally oak tree that has been standing for nearly two centuries at the old courthouse, Violet Bank’s cucumber tree, the Osage orange tree at Magnolia Grange, and other old local trees. For more information or to reserve a seat, call the County Museum at (804) 768-7311. While the event is free, donations are welcome.…
Plant now for spring blooms
0It’s the middle of fall. Leaves will be turning those magnificent colors very soon and providing nature’s patchwork quilt on the ground. Craft shows and fall festivals are on many of our calendars. Yetmany gardeners think of this time of the year as bulb planting season. Gardening, like so many things in life, requires thinking ahead. In this case, two seasons ahead. A colorful spring landscape does not happen by chance. Now is the time to survey the landscape and determine what areas can be enhanced by the addition of spring blooms. For gardening purposes, the term bulb includes other…
Ivy Memorial UMC celebrates 135 years
0By Janice Ganoe When a small group of faithful followers met together in a home in 1831, no one imagined that 135 years later Ivey Memorial United Methodist Church on the corner of Jefferson Davis Highway and Harrowgate Road would flourish. Named Arrowfield Church by this group of Presbyterians, a building was later constructed on land conveyed by deed to the trustees stating it could only be used for the purpose of preaching, Sabbath school, and prayer meetings. The deed also stipulated that any minister of the Gospel could hold services. Fast forward to May 1864 during the War Between…