Thomas Dale got rolled: Football is done
0By Harrison Louis and Josh Matthews Manchester 41, Thomas Dale 7 It was tabbed as the local showdown that football fans had been waiting for two 6A foes, the second-ranked Manchester Lancers and the third-ranked Thomas Dale Knights at Lloyd Swelnis Stadium, both teams fresh off blowout victories where they put up 50 points. Thomas Dale their game in the first half, drawing with Manchester tied 7-7 with the game in the first half. The Knights defense was able to hold a balanced and skilled Lancers offensive attack at bay. Thomas Dale’s equalizing first-half touchdown was scored on a three-yard…
Dogpound Thanksgiving… I think
0Hello, and welcome back to the thankful world of the Dogpound. As you are awareI have been writing furiously to get ahead of my Master’s demands for the month of November. I am in crunch time, since every week in November I have something going on to make it a short week…one week I am going to Ohio to watch my Buckeyes play…another weekend I am attending my oldest daughter’s wedding then, it is Thanksgiving weekend where I am going to my sister’s for a few days. Then depending how things go, I may have to go to court because…
Virginia Home-Schoolers Top 40,000 for First Time
0By Will Thomas VCU Capital News Service Alycia Wright, a Short Pump resident, used to have her own classroom where each day she taught dozens of middle-school students. That all changed after Wright had her fourth child and decided to begin home-schooling her children. “We tried it for a year, loved the freedom and we have not stopped,” she said. A licensed middle school teacher for 12 years with a master’s degree, Wright initially made the switch to home schooling as a financial decision: It meant saving on private-school tuition for her two daughters. After experiencing a year in the…
Herring Re-elected as Attorney General by Flipping GOP Strongholds
0By Charlotte Rene Woods Capital News Service Four years ago, Democrat Mark Herring squeaked by Republican Mark Obenshain by just 165 votes to win the race for Virginia attorney general. But on Nov.7, Herring cruised to re-election against GOP nominee John Adams, winning by more than 176,000 votes while flipping usually conservative Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. During his first term, Herring won praise from progressives and criticism from conservatives for refusing to defend Virginia’s ban against same-sex marriage, challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban against people from certain Muslim countries and other controversial positions. Herring’s supporters see his re-election as…
Fund Children’s Health Program, Va. Officials Tell Congress
0By Alan Rodriguez Espinoza VCU Capital News Service RICHMOND – Medical coverage for more than 60,000 children and 1,000 pregnant women in Virginia lies in the hands of Congress, which has yet to reach a decision on how to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program. CHIP is an extension of Medicaid that provides government-funded health insurance to children and pregnant women from families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private health insurance. Congress missed the Sept. 30 deadline to reauthorize federal funding for CHIP. Jeff South | Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies Richard T.…
Flying in the Dogpound
0Hello and welcome back to the wonderful holiday world of the Dogpound. I hope everyone in the pack had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving; spending it with all of your loved ones and eating more food that you should at any one meal setting. As for me, in a few days I will be hitting the road to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and her family in Ohio. I cannot remember the last time we were all able to get together for this particular holiday, so I am really looking forward to this visit. Actually, I just got back from…
Building a walking, safe community
0A sidewalk is being added to Ecoff Avenue along with upgrades that will make it more pedestrian friendly and safer for drivers. There will be an informal meeting but no formal presentation draft plans will be available for review and staff will be on hand to field questions. The Citizen Information Meeting will take place Wednesday, December 6, 2017 from 5 p.m to 7 p.m. at Ecoff Elementary School. The Chesterfield transportation department has developed 60 percent of the plans and scheduled the meeting. They evaluated various typical sections and determined the least disrupted was to construct sidewalk with curb…
Dominion Energy covering their ash with clay not water
0Dominion Energy is changing the way it handles flyash, a byproduct of burning coal. The power company, as of Monday began exercising its Virginia Department of Environmental Quality permit to depose of flyash. The plan calls for the dewatering of the ash that is currently in the ponds on the site, and any new fly ash will be will be buried in a lined landfill on the Dominion property. The dry ash will behauled across a 1,400 foot bridge that Dominion built just for the purpose of hauling to the landfill. The path to the beginning of the cleanup and…