News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | May 1, 2024
News Archives for 2008
Lady Trojans overtake Warhill for 1st win
Clawing their way back from an 18-point first half deficit, New Kent’s Lady Trojans overtook Warhill’s visiting Lions in the fourth quarter and held on for a 49-48 Bay Rivers District basketball victory. Saturday night’s triumph marked the first win of the season for the Lady Trojans who also evened their Bay Rivers record at 1-1. New Kent is 1-2 overall. Keying the comeback, New Kent coach Gierek Walker said, wasn’t so much what his team did, but more of what Warhill did or did not do. “Their free throws stopped falling,” he said. And he was right. With the…
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Teacher/coach at NKHS heads for active duty
Matt Dolci’s last day as a teacher at New Kent High School was Nov. 29, but it was a day both he and his students will not soon forget. Dolci, a geometry/algebra instructor and JV volleyball coach, is a corporal in the Marine Corps Reserves and has been called to active duty for service in Iraq. His departure in the middle of the school year evoked a gamut of emotions as students dropped by to wish him well. Members of the school’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes group held a brief ceremony in the school cafeteria to present Dolci with a…
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Veteran CC official hired as administrator
To find someone to fill the county administrator’s office, Charles City’s supervisors needed only to look a few doors down the hallway in the county’s government building. Last Wednesday, supervisors hired longtime county public works director John F. “Jack” Miniclier Jr. to take over the county administrator post. Miniclier has been employed with the county since June 1992. His title of public works/utilities director, county engineer, and emergency services coordinator has remained relatively unchanged since he came on board. Actually, the selection process was more complicated than just picking a familiar face. Miniclier was chosen from a field of 20…
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Tax hike may be considered to fund Charles City fire/EMS
A larger crowd attended the most recent Charles City town hall meeting to discuss the county’s manpower shortage when it comes to providing emergency medical service. Close to 40 county residents sat in on the Nov. 20 event, a number well above the half-dozen who showed for October’s inaugural meeting. But some in attendance indicated more residents must be heard from before a decision is made on how to fix the problem. As County Administrator Jack Miniclier put it, everything is on the table from raising taxes for hiring full or part-time workers to increasing stipends for volunteers, installing high…
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Recycled oil could become heating fuel source for NK
Using thousands of gallons of recycled oil dropped off annually at New Kent refuse sites could save the county close to $1 million in fuel costs over a 20-year period. And with that sort of information in hand, county supervisors are exploring a proposal to install, in some county-owned buildings, furnaces and boilers that burn used oil. Board of Supervisors members were handed the proposal during their Nov. 25 work session. County Administrator John Budesky said staff intends to explore the matter further and develop a plan of action for board consideration. Candidate buildings include those housing public utilities along…
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Two charged in robbery try
A New Kent County man and a Charles City County woman face felony charges in the aftermath of what Charles City authorities are labeling a strong-arm robbery. James E. Brown Jr., 30, of 6455 Continental Can Road in New Kent, and Atralia C. King, 28, of 9130 Little Elam Road in Charles City, are charged with one count each of attempted armed robbery, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery in connection with a Nov. 22 incident involving a male victim. Events began to unfold around 11:30 p.m. when the victim received…
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Library trustees vote for old NKMS as permanent home
Heritage Public Library’s Board of Trustees is in favor of the main building at New Kent County’s old middle school serving as permanent home for the library’s New Kent branch. Trustees voted unanimously during a recent special meeting to accept an offer from county officials to utilize the space. Results of the vote were delivered to county Board of Supervisors members during the board’s Nov. 25 work session. “It was truly unanimous,” trustees representative Susan Brucker told supervisors concerning the vote. “We took time to fully deliberate,” she said, adding that the entire 11-member library group was involved. “There were…
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Shooting leaves 1 dead in CC
A day before Thanksgiving shooting in Charles City has left a county woman wounded and the apparent triggerman, also a county resident, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. The woman, Pamela Cotman, 37, of 9101 Little Elam Road, was listed last week in stable condition at MCV Medical Center in Richmond. She was struck twice, once in the left breast and once below the torso, by bullets fired from a .357 magnum revolver, said Capt. Jayson Crawley of the Charles City Sheriff’s Office. Investigators say Gregory Bradby, 53, of 8800 Little Elam Road, apparently shot Cotman and turned the weapon on…
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Suspects arraigned, 18th arrest made in Charles City
Another arrest has upped the number of suspects to 18 in Operation Happy Holidays, the latest law enforcement assault on illegal drug trafficking in Charles City County. And the total number of charges involving those suspects has risen to 72. Authorities arrested Ryan Jovan Brown, 24, of 6200 Sign Post Lane Apt. C in Charles City, on Nov. 20. Brown is charged with six counts of distributing crack cocaine and one count of conspiracy to distribute. He is being held without bond pending a Dec. 12 court appearance for appointment of counsel. The other 17 suspects, all but one arrested…
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Dedication celebrates rebirth of church destroyed by arson
Amid song and celebration, members of St. John Baptist Church and hundreds of friends and dignitaries joined together to dedicate the Charles City church’s new home on Nov. 23, a little less than five years after an arsonist destroyed the original building in a Feb. 9, 2004 early morning blaze. As firefighters doused the still smoldering ashes on that cold February morning, church members looked on and vowed to press forward. That sentiment surfaced as worship leader the Rev. Vance Jones opened the dedication service. “The old church building is no more, but we’re the church,” he shouted from the…
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