News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | November 6, 2025
News Archives for 2008
Black leads Lady Panthers to win
Lady Panther Chiquita Black won three events and was a member of the Lady Panthers’ winning 400 meter relay team as Charles City’s girls went on to a track victory over Tri-Rivers District foes Surry County and Franklin on April 8. Charles City scored 51.5 points to Franklin’s 42.5 and Surry’s 35. Black won the high jump (4-0), 100 meter hurdles (20.59), and 300 meter hurdles (60.0). She was the lead leg of the relay team along with members Toni Harris, Hilary Wynn, and Krystal Wade, posting a time of 55.6. Lexus Adkins was the other individual winner for the…
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Lady Trojans post tennis wins
New Kent’s Lady Trojan tennis team registered victories over Bay Rivers rival Poquoson and non-district foes West Point (twice) and Essex in recent weeks. The team fell in matches with Tabb, Grafton, and Mathews. Tabb 6 New Kent 3
Winning 11 events paces NK in track
New Kent’s boys won 11 events while the girls prevailed in eight on the way to triumphs over three foes in non-district track at home on April 9. The Trojans scored 141 points to Peninsula Catholic’s 53, 34 for Benedictine, and Middlesex’s 29. The Lady Trojans, meanwhile, totaled 111 to fend off Peninsula Catholic’s 92 while St. Gertrude’s and Middlesex trailed with 28 and 10, respectively. Double individual event winners for New Kent emerged only on the girls’ side where Kayla Christian won the triple jump (34-8) and 200 meters (25.4) and Jamie Lull captured the 400 (63.9) and 3200…
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Christian’s 4 wins pace NK track triumph
Kayla Christian won four individual events and Kelly Downs won two more as New Kent’s Lady Trojans prevailed in a five-team track meet last Wednesday on their home oval. Christian won the long (17-1) and triple (35-5) jumps along with the 100 (12.0) and 200 (25.7) meter dashes while Downs took the 1600 (5:59.1) and 3200 (13:08) meter runs, helping New Kent to amass 146 points. Lancaster placed second with 95 followed by Poquoson’s 36, Smithfield’s 35, and Jamestown’s 26. On the boys’ side, New Kent won nine events in piling up 129 points while Smithfield came in second with…
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Cavs thwart Trojan bid for first victory
Four minutes into their soccer clash with King William’s invading Cavaliers, New Kent’s Trojans took a 1-0 lead. And for the next 73 minutes, the hosts nursed that advantage, holding off every Cav offensive threat. Unfortunately, a high school soccer game spans 80 minutes. With just over three minutes to go, King William took advantage of a Trojan tripping violation with a direct free kick that sailed into the net. New Kent, in search of its first win of the season, had to settle for a 1-1 tie. “It was a clear foul,” Trojan coach Craig Aliff said after last…
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NK 17 Southampton 5 (baseball)
Exploding for 15 runs in the fourth inning, New Kent’s Trojans wiped out a two-run deficit on the way to a 17-5 Bay Rivers District baseball conquest of Southampton’s invading Indians. During the decisive frame, the Trojans smacked 11 hits — seven singles, two doubles, a triple, and a home run — to put away the Indians and up their district record to 3-7. “We just lit it up,” Trojan coach Ronnie Cox said after last Thursday’s contest. “All of a sudden it opened up for us and we just kept on hitting.” New Kent’s bat prowess actually manifested itself…
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Lady Trojans christen new field with win
New Kent’s Lady Trojans opened play on the school’s new softball field with a 9-0 victory over Southampton’s Indians. But last Thursday’s triumph wasn’t as easy as it sounds. After leaving the bases loaded in both the first and second innings and stranding another runner in the third, the hosts finally broke through with a five-run fourth inning before adding four more scores in the fifth. “If we’d lost, we probably would have been going back to play on the old field,” Lady Trojan coach Betsey Lane said afterward, wryly assessing her team’s inaugural outing on the new layout. New…
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First NK roundabout in use
The first of three roundabouts — what some refer to as traffic circles — under construction on Route 106 in New Kent County has opened to traffic. Highway engineers tout the design as an improvement for traffic flow at intersections, but not everyone is convinced. Last week during the county’s Board of Supervisors meeting, board members heard the benefits of roundabouts as voiced by a state highway department engineer. The board also questioned safety factors, especially pertaining to trucks. VDOT engineer Terry Knouse said statistics show roundabouts substantially reduce the number of vehicle accidents along with injuries and fatalities when…
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Rising fuel costs plaguing Charles City’s school system
Rising fuel costs are adversely affecting businesses and consumers, and local school systems are no different. Charles City County school officials have learned money budgeted for fuel for the current fiscal year is nearly exhausted. Through the first eight months of the fiscal year, schools have spent almost $93,000 of just over $97,000 tabbed for fuel in this year’s budget, Melvin Robertson, who oversees the school’s transportation department, told School Board members during their April 15 meeting. And if the current trend of price increases continues through the end of the fiscal year on June 30, schools could be paying…
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NK planners give negative nod to mini-storage concept
George Philbates Jr. says he can live without the mini-storage building and fenced in area for storing recreational vehicles he plans to build across Route 249 from the auto wrecking and salvage yard he operates in New Kent County. He may have to. Monday night, New Kent’s Planning Commission voted 7-1 with one abstention to recommend that the county’s Board of Supervisors turn down a rezoning request that would pave the way for Philbates’ project. Philbates and his wife, Rebecca, have applied to rezone just over four acres across Route 249 (New Kent Highway) from their business, Philbates Auto Wrecking…
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