News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | April 26, 2024
News Archives for May, 2010
Supervisors turn thumbs down on kennel’s permit request
Citing past issues of illegal operation, Charles City’s Board of Supervisors has denied a permit request that would allow the owner of a Rottweiler breeding kennel in the county to remain in business. In a unanimous 3-0 decision Tuesday night, supervisors turned down the request by Linda Howard, owner of Big Dog Kennel located at 5226 North Warriner Road. Supervisors pointed to Howard continuing to sell dogs after the county handed her a May 17, 2009 deadline to cease all operations. Last Dec. 17, county planning officials and the sheriff’s office set up a sting operation whereby an undercover officer…
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Supervisors debate NK budget
A public hearing hosted by the Board of Supervisors on New Kent’s proposed $50.2 million budget for the next fiscal year attracted only a handful of county residents. Instead, last night’s session generated sharp exchanges between District 4 Supervisor Stran Trout and two of his colleagues over budget alterations Trout is pushing for approval. Trout is urging the board to refrain from closing the county’s trash stations one day per week as is currently proposed in next year’s budget. That suggestion appears to have strong board support. But Trout’s recommendations for chipping in money to help pave the way for…
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Windsor tops CC in T-RD softball, baseball
Charles City’s Lady Panther softball team is flirting with a winning record and is closing out its most successful season in recent memory. But Windsor’s invading Dukes weren’t impressed during a May 13 Tri-Rivers District encounter. Windsor jumped on the hosts for 10 first inning runs and never looked back in gaining a 16-0 win. The outcome evened Charles City’s record at 3-3 in the district and 5-5 overall. The Lady Panthers had little success in overcoming the early deficit thanks to Duke hurler Tiffany Rapp who struck out nine. The hosts were unable to mount a serious scoring threat…
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CC, NK track teams compete
Charles City and New Kent track team members competed in the Milestat.com Elite Invitational held April 23-24 at Maggie Walker Governor’s School and Sports Backers Stadium in Richmond. New Kent’s 4×100 meter relay team (Justin Williams, Cory Dunn, Cody Simmons, Desmond Worelds) ran a season-best 43.23 to place third overall. Dunn, Paul Kearney, Coy Robinson, and Austin Smith ran 3:27.98 to finish seventh in the 4×400 relay. New Kent’s Michael Lull finished second in the unseeded heat of the 3200 meter run with a 9:55.18 clocking. Charles City’s Kierra Brooks ran 13.06 in the 100 meter dash to place ninth….
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Lady Trojans dominate 8-0
Cashing in on frequent open scoring opportunities, New Kent’s Lady Trojans pulled away from Washington & Lee’s visiting Eagles for an 8-0 soccer triumph. The April 30 match, that ended 12 minutes short of regulation on a slaughter rule, raised New Kent’s record above the .500 mark to 5-4-1. “We’ve played so many tight games, it’s good to change things up and give other people some playing time,” said New Kent coach Chad Honeycutt. “We started off a little slow tonight, but we finished very well.” Lady Trojan Anna Black reversed the hosts’ sluggish start at the first half’s 24-minute…
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New Kent registers softball, baseball upsets over York
Renee Silver tossed a two-hit shutout while striking out nine as New Kent’s Lady Trojans stunned York’s Bay Rivers District softball front-running Falcons 3-0. Three errors contributed to the Falcons’ downfall as New Kent registered just four hits off York hurler Hannah Winfree. “But they were quality hits,” said Lady Trojan coach Betsey Lane after watching her team improve to 5-7 in the district and 7-7 overall with the April 30 triumph. New Kent jumped on top to stay in the second inning after leadoff hitter Sarah Barnett reached base on a throwing error. Barnett took third on Nikki Jones’…
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Charles City trounces Franklin in Tri-Rivers
Seven first inning runs enabled Charles City’s host Lady Panthers to take control. And when Franklin’s Broncos closed the gap in the middle frames, the hosts reasserted dominance on the way to a 14-6 triumph. Last Thursday’s contest handed Charles City its first Tri-Rivers District softball win of the season and raised the Lady Panthers’ overall record to 2-3. Charles City is 1-2 in district play. “I’m incredibly proud of my girls,” winning coach Kathryn Costley said afterward. “We’ve allowed the other team to get ahead of us in the past, but we jumped on them today and got the…
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Walk-off double clinches 8-7 NK comeback triumph
Paul Robinson’s two-run, walk-off double climaxed a determined New Kent Trojan rally from six runs down to overcome Lafayette’s visiting Rams 8-7 in Bay Rivers District baseball. After chipping away at what had been a 7-1 Ram lead, the host Trojans entered the final inning on the short end of a 7-4 score. But Hunter Pomfrey’s bases-loaded single sliced the margin to 7-6 before Robinson’s heroics clinched last Friday’s victory. “I don’t ever remember us being down by three runs against a Bay Rivers team in the bottom of the seventh inning and coming back to win,” said a much…
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First novel published by Providence Forge author
Three years ago, Mary Lou Gediman took the bold step of quitting her job to concentrate on writing. And the move is starting to pay off with the publication of her first novel. “Journeywoman,” the story of a divorcee whose uneventful life takes a dramatic turn thanks to advice from a Native American, became available on-line (print on demand) to the public through Amazon and Barnes and Noble in December. Now, the Providence Forge resident is striving to get her novel on bookstore shelves. “It’s been a lot of fun, and it’s been a journey,” she said, borrowing a bit…
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Convenience store robber to spend four years in prison
Having an opportunity to steal money from a cash register drawer and then flee from law enforcement did not prompt him to walk into Rick’s Stop and Shop convenience store in Quinton last November. That’s the explanation Kenneth Lee Barnes delivered to Judge Thomas B. Hoover during the defendant’s May 3 sentencing in New Kent Circuit Court on charges of grand larceny and eluding police. “I wasn’t in the right state of mind,” Barnes told the judge. “I had no intention of doing that action. I went in to get a cold drink. I was dehydrated.” But Barnes, 49, of…
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