News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | May 2, 2024
News Archives for July, 2008
Police traffic stops in New Kent lead to felony charges
Suspects from Charlottesville, Norfolk, Richmond, and West Virginia have been found guilty in New Kent Circuit Court on June 23 on charges that all resulted from separate, unrelated police traffic stops in the county. Derrick Allen Martin, 22, of 1800 Monticello Ave. in Charlottesville, pleaded guilty to felony eluding police. Prosecutor Linwood Gregory told the court that Martin was behind the wheel of a car stopped last Feb. 8 for speeding on Farmer’s Drive (Route 273) by a New Kent deputy. As the car slowed, a front seat passenger jumped out and fled on foot. Martin and two back seat…
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NK truck stop owners look to relocate, not expand
Owners of a controversial truck stop, located just south of the Interstate 64/Route 106 Talleysville interchange in New Kent County, are promising to not expand the facility and to explore relocating further east on the interstate. Jack Wilson, an attorney for Pilot Travel Center, advised county Planning Commission members during their June 16 meeting that his clients aim to iron out concerns county officials may have about the truck stop. “We want to bring the facility into compliance with the [county] zoning ordinance, and we have been working with New Kent staff to do this,” he told the commission. Wilson…
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CC supervisors to oppose negative dog study findings
Back in January, deer hunters packed the Charles City County Board of Supervisors meeting room to pressure the board to pass a resolution in support of using dogs to pursue their sport. Supervisors quickly complied. But omitted from the resolution was a sentence saying supervisors would oppose any negative findings toward dog use in results of a study now underway statewide. During their June 24 meeting, board members unanimously agreed to add the passage. County resident H.B. Fitzgerald sent letters to each board member and brought up the issue during last week’s meeting. The study, being conducted by Virginia Tech…
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NK, CC residents having say on Walker’s Dam design
New Kent and Charles City residents, who have a stake in the outcome of rehabilitation work on Walker’s Dam, are providing the dam’s owners, Newport News Waterworks, with input on several design issues that remain unresolved. Waterworks officials hosted a public meeting last Wednesday at the New Kent Forestry Center that attracted residents from both counties who were asked to comment on the dam’s height, boat lock operation, fishing near the dam, and a proposed fishing pier. Repairs to the 65-year-old dam on the Chickahominy River at Lanexa evolved from the structure failing in April 2007 and the boat lock…
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NK law enforcement annex dedicated in sheriff’s honor
New Kent Sheriff F.W. “Wakie” Howard Jr. knew that moving into the county’s new $3.2 million, 13,600 square foot sheriff’s annex building would relieve overcrowding his department has experienced in recent years inside their cramped courthouse quarters. But little did he know that the building would bear his name. The F.W. Howard Jr. Law Enforcement Office Building officially opened its doors to the public during a June 18 dedication ceremony. Howard had planned only on thanking local officials and introducing the event’s featured speaker, state Secretary of Public Safety John Marshall, during the event. But county officials had worked behind…
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Teachers stamp rave reviews on new high school building
Awesome, phenomenal, amazing, and just plain “Wow!” Those are but a few of the descriptive words New Kent High School teachers and administrators employed as they scurried about the hallways, classrooms, gymnasiums, auditorium, media center, and food court inside the county’s new $50 million, 242,000 square foot high school. The date: June 11, the last day of the school year. But teachers delayed departing for summer to spend a few hours touring the complex they will call home in September. “I’m excited. I’m thrilled. I cannot believe it,” librarian Tracey McKinney exclaimed as she gazed about the new school’s media…
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Newly formed NK ham radio club recruiting members
A newly formed amateur radio club in New Kent County is enlisting new members who can volunteer to assist with radio communications during emergencies. The club, New Kent for Amateur Radio, formed in April and held its first meeting on June 7. A week before, the group obtained its FCC call sign “NK4AR” that spells the club’s initials. Amateur radio operators provide volunteer emergency back-up communications to county officials during natural and man-made disasters when normal communications systems often fail. “Now, the New Kent Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be known on the amateur radio bands and nets as NK4AR,…
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Judge hands Richmond man 28 years in NK shooting
A Richmond man must serve 28 years in prison as a result of a shooting last year in New Kent that wounded a county man. Judge Thomas B. Hoover imposed 70 years in all on Danny Maurice Bullock, 27, of 2217 Ferrand St., during a June 16 sentencing hearing in New Kent Circuit Court. Bullock had been found guilty of four felony charges during a March 6 trial. For aggravated malicious wounding, the judge imposed 50 years with all but 20 years suspended. On a shooting into an occupied vehicle count, 10 years, all suspended were handed down, but on…
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Police traffic stops in New Kent lead to felony charges
Suspects from Charlottesville, Norfolk, Richmond, and West Virginia have been found guilty in New Kent Circuit Court on June 23 on charges that all resulted from separate, unrelated police traffic stops in the county. Derrick Allen Martin, 22, of 1800 Monticello Ave. in Charlottesville, pleaded guilty to felony eluding police. Prosecutor Linwood Gregory told the court that Martin was behind the wheel of a car stopped last Feb. 8 for speeding on Farmer’s Drive (Route 273) by a New Kent deputy. As the car slowed, a front seat passenger jumped out and fled on foot. Martin and two back seat…
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NK truck stop owners look to relocate, not expand
Owners of a controversial truck stop, located just south of the Interstate 64/Route 106 Talleysville interchange in New Kent County, are promising to not expand the facility and to explore relocating further east on the interstate. Jack Wilson, an attorney for Pilot Travel Center, advised county Planning Commission members during their June 16 meeting that his clients aim to iron out concerns county officials may have about the truck stop. “We want to bring the facility into compliance with the [county] zoning ordinance, and we have been working with New Kent staff to do this,” he told the commission. Wilson…
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