By a vote of 3-2 with Chris Winslow and James Holland dissenting, the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors approved a right-of-way designation related to construction of a new Ettrick Elementary School. The .13 acre of land in question is south of Chesterfield Avenue and west of Paine Street. Three people spoke during public comment on the issue, including retired teacher Pearl Cheeks. She and Matoaca resident Brenda Stewart objected to the school being rebuilt on the site of the current school because they said the area is too small. Stewart also decried a lack of a community meeting about the project.…
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Workers were busy at 1601 Bellwood Road last week at a site next to the James River Logistics Center. (Caleb M. Soptelean photo) In order to try to spur more manufacturing in the county, the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors last week voted unanimously and without comment in favor of a real estate tax grant for developer JLR Land LC of Richmond. The property in question – 1601 Bellwood Road – is located in the James River Logistics Center. JRL plans to build a 320,960 square-foot shell of a building in an attempt to attract a leasor. The plan calls for…
Abby Segrest, a Thomas Dale High graduate and senior at Radford University, and was recently chosen to speak to over 1,800 freshmen at the university’s convocation on Aug. 25 to welcome the class of 2023. Segrest is a marketing major and plans to graduate in May 2020.
Alicia Amsler Models are pictured during a previous Runway 2 Life event. (Instagram) Alicia Amsler knows far more about mental illness and depression than she ever thought she would need to know. She knows the statistics like the back of her hand, but the real gem in a conversation with her is her passion for helping people who have thoughts about suicide. In 2012, Amsler, owner of Alicia’s Salon and Day Spa at 6241 Centralia Road in the Chesterfield Meadows Shopping Center, lost one of her employees to suicide. A year later she lost a dear friend to suicide. At…
The Chesterfield County Planning Commission gave a unanimous approval recommendation last week on a proposed Carvana auto storage and inspection facility that would be built off Woods Edge Road east of Interstate 95. The matter now goes before the county Board of Supervisors on Sept. 25. The rezoning and conditional use permit application for the online car seller was delayed on July 16 after commissioners deadlocked on three 2-2 with Midlothian commissioner Peppy Jones absent. Matoaca commissioner Craig Stariha had said that he wanted to wait for an approval recommendation from the county transportation staff, which recommended approval at last…
Aksa Soptelean-Rivas, 12, and Vida Soptelean-Rivas, 16, relax next to a creek below a waterfall near Marion, Mont., on Weyerhaeuser land in August 2019. (Caleb M. Soptelean photo) It was a refreshing experience. Last week I was afforded the opportunity to take my 12- and 16-year-old daughters to the place I love: Northwest Montana. I had taken them there for the first time two summers ago, and we watched our first rodeo together in Polson, hiked on the Beardance Trail down to Flathead Lake — the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River — and hiked part of the…
A girl enjoys a ride at the Chesterfield County fair on Saturday, Aug. 24. The fair runs through Saturday, Aug. 31.
This year’s winners are, from left, Nicolette Arnold, Caroline Blades, Alana Skinner, Riley Hacker and Andrea Farag. (Paul Diming photo) The Chesterfield County Fair is in full force yet again, with many events scheduled daily to keep fair-goers entertained. The morning of Aug. 24 featured Princess Pageant participants ranging in age from 3 to 16 with hopes of being crowned into the Chesterfield County Royals. This year’s theme was “Life’s a Beach at The Chesterfield County Fair.” The winners for each category were: Nicolette Arnold, tiny, ages 3 to 4; Caroline Blades, little, ages 5 to 6; Alana Skinner, juniors,…
The Peel family — Samantha, Doug, Kelsey, and Michelle — recently enjoyed a bike tour of Florence, Italy. They paused to pose with the newspaper in front of the Famous Duomo, Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
It was a close call on the Varina-Enon Bridge on Tuesday, Aug. 13, when a pickup truck hauling a machine jackknifed and crashed. Corrine Geller of the Virginia State Police said the single-vehicle crash occurred around 11:52 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 295 at mile marker 18. “The backhoe the truck was towing fell off the trailer and into the travel lane.” Geller said. “The driver and passenger in the pickup truck were not injured.” (Billy Spivey photo)