News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | May 13, 2024
News Archives for April, 2009
Celebration kicks off NK’s Relay For Life campaign
Life for five-year-olds Emma Hall and Savannah Reid and seven-year-old Jasper Packard has been anything but kids’ play. At age four, all were diagnosed with cancer — Emma and Savannah with Stage 4 Wilm’s Tumor and Jasper with leukemia. Today, the three youngsters stand as living proof cancer can be beaten. All have been declared cancer-free and were the center of attention at the March 21 New Kent Relay For Life kickoff held at Colonial Downs. Sporting wide grins, Emma, Savannah, and Jasper proudly displayed medals awarded them for their monumental accomplishment. And expect to see them May 30 on…
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CC proposing 1-cent tax hike
Charles City’s county administrator is proposing a 1-cent hike in the county’s real estate tax rate for next year. But that penny is to be dedicated solely for helping solve the county’s emergency medical transport dilemma. County Administrator Jack Miniclier unveiled his $22 million proposed budget for fiscal 2009-10 before the county’s Board of Supervisors on March 24. The proposal is over $1.3 million lower than the current fiscal year’s $23.3 million figure. The proposed one-cent tax increase raises the county’s real estate rate from the current 82 cents to 83 cents per $100 of assessed value. Supervisors, meanwhile, scheduled…
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NK moving forward on $27.1 million sewer plant upgrade
New Kent officials plan to shut down one of the county’s two sewage treatment plants and proceed with a $27.1 million project to expand and upgrade the other. County Board of Supervisors members decided during their March 25 work session to start the bid process on upgrading the Parham Landing Wastewater Treatment Plant off Route 33 west of Eltham from its current 1 million gallon capacity to 2 million. Work on the project could begin as early as July with completion scheduled for December 2010. The county, meanwhile, plans to close by 2011 its Chickahominy Wastewater Treatment Plant, located near…
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CC School Board decision on GPA expected this month
A vote on raising academic standards for students participating in sports and other extracurricular activities in Charles City’s school system is expected when the county’s School Board meets on April 21. At issue is leaving the current standard — a 2.0 grade-point average — for eligibility in place or raising the bar in increments until eventually reaching 3.0. The proposal stems from a 2005 School Board decision that established a 2.0 benchmark for that year. But under the approved policy, the GPA requirement would be raised to 2.5 the next year and to 2.75 the following year before eventually reaching…
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Teen survivors in botched robbery enter guilty pleas
“I did something stupid and my friend got killed.” Kodie Lee Tyler’s words in a statement to investigators last October spoke volumes about the night he and three friends, all teenagers from the Williamsburg area, drove in a quest for marijuana to a Lanexa rental house occupied by a reputed drug dealer. Authorities say robbery was their intent. Tyler and two of his companions, Derek Daurelle Moore and Reuben Timothy Tynes Jr., survived the encounter. The fourth, Christopher Greene, 18, did not. Wielding a modified shotgun, Greene kicked open the house’s back door. One of two rounds from a .357…
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