News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | May 17, 2024
News Archives for July, 2008
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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