The Chesterfield County School Board will hold four community meetings to engage residents on proposals about changes to school starting times that would align with medically suggested best practices and provide students with optimal learning experiences. All of the following meetings will start at 7 p.m. in the host school’s auditorium: Oct. 24 at Swift Creek Middle School for residents living in the Clover Hill and Midlothian magisterial districts, as well as in the western part of the Matoaca District · Nov. 1 at Matoaca High School for residents living in the eastern and southern parts of the Matoaca District…
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Pictured is the home place of Miss Lucy Corr, former Director of Chesterfield County’s Social Services Department located on Lori Road just past the county administration building. Corr is remembered for starting a nursing home that reflected the strong family values embedded in the Chesterfield County community. That meant taking care of people who did not have the means to care for themselves. Within four years, she had spearheaded the effort to build a first-class nursing home in Chesterfield in 1970, the first of its kind in the County. The nursing home, now assisted living is named for her. Corr…
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. This year’s parade theme is “Christmas Movies.” The parade will take place Sunday, Dec. 11 at 2 p.m. It will begin at the Chester YMCA and end at Harrowgate Road. Entrants that wish to compete for trophies should express their group’s idea of the theme. The deadline for entries is Dec. 1. The entry fee for participants is $40 if postmarked by Nov. 1. Entries postmarked after Nov. 1 require a $50 application fee. Applications and parade information can be…
By Danielle Ozbat Christmas Mothers from past and present gathered at the historic Magnolia Grange museum house last Tuesday to announce Deborah Koller as this year’s Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Christmas Mother. Koller – who holds a bachelor’s degree in biology, a master’s degree in microbiology and a doctorate in molecular genetics – has been with the Christmas Mother committee for four years and is honored to be chosen. “It’s an honor, a little humbling [and] I just hope I can serve the organization well,” Koller said. “We sort of work as the interface … between the organization and the public, letting…
James “Jim” M. Holland, CPA, has been elected as the chair of the Virginia Board of Accountancy’s Standard-Setting Advisory Committee. Holland was appointed by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe in July 2016. He also is the Dale District representative on the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors. The Virginia Board of Accountancy (VBOA) supports the accounting profession not only in the Commonwealth, but on the national level as well. Current and previous board members, as well as the VBOA Executive Director, serve on committees and roles with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.
Tranlin 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…
What 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…
Chester 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.
Chesterfield- 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.…
By 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…