Don’t Fence me in
0Tim Morehouse visited Elizabeth Davis Middle School recently. A three-time Olympian and founder of fencing in the Schools, Morehouse will hold assemblies at Elizabeth Davis to train PE teachers for after school fencing programs. Three-time Olympian and Founder of Fencing In the Schools, Tim Morehouse, was on hand at Elizabeth Davis Middle School to train the Raven’s coaches in fencing, which will be available to the school as a PE and After School program through the generosity of Sabra Dipping Company.
Tres going the distance with Wesleyan
0A program with many college level athletics historically, Thomas Dale track added another notch to their belt when distance runner Michael Tres announced he will be running at Virginia Wesleyan. “After visiting and being able to meet with the team and coaches, it was a program athletically I felt would be able to fit in very well with,” said Tres. “It’s also a great academic school that I could attend for the next four years.” Tres has had a solid senior season so far, with conference, region and state meets on the horizon. This fall, he placed 28th in the…
Local athletes are top performers in ODAC
0Two Matoaca baseball alums received some of the highest individual honors this week for Randolph Macon. Senior Travis Lodge was named the Conference’s Player of the Year while sophomore Rick Spiers earned All-ODAC first team honors. Spiers picked up the Most Outstanding Player in the ODAC tournament just days later. More importantly for the two South Chesterfield natives, the Yellow Jackets downed Hampden-Sydney 6-5 in the ODAC Championship game this past Sunday afternoon. “We put ourselves in a good position in the tournament and for after the tournament,” Spiers said. “We’ve been playing hard, we’re taking this one game at…
Bird student-athletes make it official
1A pair of senior leaders for L.C. Bird softball signed on the dotted line to continue their softball careers at Richard Bland College this past week, Kamryn Lanier and Ashley Fritz. Lanier, a third baseman and Fritz, a catcher are two key cogs for an L.C. Bird team that has shown great improvement over the past two seasons. Last year, they won their first round match-up in the Conference 12 tournament over Matoaca. This year, they’re out to improve on that performance, currently standing with a record of 7-5. “The biggest reason for our growth is our kids,” said coach,…
Dogpound a bit of center
0Hello and welcome back to the wonderful world of the Dogpound…I think. I added that little tag because lately I seem to be a step behind my own shadow or maybe a better description would be…more “scatter-brained” than usual. I think it started when I found a full container of ice cream in my car that had fallen out of one of those silly little plastic bags, and it had been there all night. Not sure how I did not see it because it was on the front seat floor…and thankfully it was in one of those big sealed plastic…
Island May Vanish Under Rising Seas
0By Diana DiGangi and Margaret Carmel – Capital News Service TANGIER ISLAND – A teenager wanders at dusk, playing pop hits from 2010 on his phone at top volume. Old men speak a dialect similar to Cornish. The mayor has an office in town, but spends his days crabbing on the Chesapeake Bay. In the center of the island stands a massive water tank, a cross on one side and a crab on the other, with the community’s name in the middle: TANGIER. Tangier Island is home to a way of life that otherwise has all but disappeared. Twelve miles off…
Old Growth Magic
0Old growth gardens are magical and inspirational. They are truly a sanctuary in every sense of the word for its owner and those who have the privilege to visit. A garden over 60 years old on Old Centralia Road offers its owners, Chester Garden Club member Charlie Morgan and his wife, Cindy, a private sanctuary. The only hint given is in the spring when full-bloom azaleas drift over the sidewalk. But if you are privileged to walk the three-quarter-acre site, you enter a pathway surrounded by a profusion of colorful azalea blooms (with some standing over 12 feet), followed by…
Verizon still on strike
0Thirty-six thousand Verizon workers went out on strike April 13. Not looking for anything more than what they have in their contract that expired August 1, 2015. According to strikers at the Verizon office located on Weir Road, Verizon wants to change the workers benefit package – health, pension and 401K package plus expand their drive time to their garage locations. Local resident Derek Estes has been with Verizon for 18 years. Estes stresses that what they do, their work, is what makes the cell towers work for wireless networks. “Without us, cell phones would not work or function. People…