News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | November 4, 2025
News Archives for 2010
Career criminal and former fugitive handed two years
A violent sex offender/career criminal with more than 40 convictions on his record must serve two years of a suspended sentence incurred from a pair of felony convictions in New Kent County. William Donald Poulson Jr., 32, of 320 Bernie Court, Highland Springs, had been on the run from authorities until he was captured last May in Michigan. Poulson was a passenger in a pickup truck stopped for tailgating in Livonia, Mich. on May 4. He gave police a fictitious name, but investigators soon uncovered his true identity as well as outstanding warrants in Virginia. Poulson appeared in New Kent…
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Speeding biker’s tale fails to convince New Kent judge
Testifying before a New Kent Circuit Court judge, motorcyclist Marcel Calvin Brandy insisted he neither saw the state police trooper’s car in pursuit nor heard its siren as he sped along Interstate 64, covering 14 miles with two other bikers at speeds over 130 miles per hour. The judge didn’t believe him. Judge Thomas B. Hoover found Brandy, 29, of 510 Tailgate Terrace in Landover, Md., guilty of one count of eluding police following an Aug. 23 trial. Brandy is free on $10,000 bond until sentencing in October. Trooper Todd Morehead told the court he had been alerted last April…
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County fairs upcoming in Charles City, New Kent
Charles City’s annual County Fair is running one day only this Saturday (Sept. 11)) at the Charles City Social Center in Ruthville. Grand opening is scheduled for 10 a.m. with the introduction of local and state officials. Entertainment then takes over on center stage and continues throughout the day. Moneymaking booths will have games and fun activities as well as craft and food sales. Also featured are educational displays, a car show, and farm and home exhibits. Special contests in the farm and home exhibits category include Best Bread Pudding in Charles City and Best Brunch competitions. For information on…
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Charles City welcomes mine operation with open arms
Charles City government officials are eagerly embracing plans by Luck Stone Corporation to begin mining sand and gravel on just over 1,200 acres in the Sandy Point area of the county. Board of Supervisors members voted 3-0 following a joint public hearing with the Planning Commission during their Aug. 24 meeting to issue a special use permit paving the way for the operation. But in lavishing praise on the family-run, Goochland County-based firm’s record of philanthropy, they dropped strong hints about keeping Charles City in mind when the generosity chord is struck in the future. Luck Stone, however, must secure…
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CC judge orders jail time for defiant dog kennel owner
A Rottweiler kennel owner in Charles City, who has continually defied a court order to cease operations, is now serving time in jail. Linda K. Howard must spend 10 days behind bars after being found guilty of contempt in county circuit court. Judge Thomas B. Hoover handed down the sentence on Tuesday after hearing testimony about the latest sting operation that snared the defendant attempting to sell dogs. Last May 4, Hoover found Howard guilty on two counts of operating a commercial kennel without a county special use permit and ordered her to close down within 30 days. A few…
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‘Homearama’ comes to NK
“101 Great New Ideas For Your Home” is the theme, but organizers for “Homearama 2010,” scheduled for Sept. 18-Oct. 3 at Patriots Landing off Route 60 in New Kent County, say the affair is much more. Produced by the Home Building Association of Richmond, Homearama features tours of six fully furnished houses by six different builders in the Quinton development. The homes encompass the latest in new construction, design, furnishings, and technological innovations. Visitors will be treated to money and energy saving ideas that can be incorporated into new or existing homes. “Each builder tried to come up with at…
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C&F provides curriculum supplement to 32 schools
Recently, students at 32 area high schools completed activities to learn about credit from the banker’s side of the desk. Thanks to an innovative curriculum supplement that uses video to simulate loan interviews, students role-play the job of a lender, analyzing loan applications, reviewing credit reports and calculating disposable income. At the end of the role-play, students compare their decisions with a banker’s. In this learn-by-doing exercise, young adults teach themselves the value of good credit, how to determine their own capacity to borrow and repay, and what they can do as young adults to build a good credit history….
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NK kids take part in theatre
Sixty children from the Arts Alive service area, which includes New Kent County, performed Aug. 7 as the Missoula Children’s Theatre presented “Robinson Crusoe.” The local cast featured Bailey Tyler as Robinson Crusoe, Parker Wallace as Wilson, his sole companion, and Mariah Hancock as Leonard the Leopard. Also featured were Friday’s Family, played by Alexandra Puccio, Sam Shahinian, Cody Davis, Hannah Capps, Aaliyah Webb, and Josh Eckert. Amanda Geltmacher played the band leader, Oscar the Octopus, and featured Lily George, Cope Brown, Heather Edwards, Chloe Pollard, Kindred Grey, Bella Pollard, and Suzanne Prince as the Oscar Octopus Octet band members….
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Highlights mark race season
Colonial Downs’ 40-day, eight week summer thoroughbred racing season came to a close on July 21 as jockey Rosemary Homeister Jr. and trainer Hamilton Smith captured the leading titles in the 14th annual race campaign in New Kent. The competition for leading jockey heated up late in the meet, as Homeister, Horacio Karamanos, and Eric Camacho stood within one win of each other going into the final week. In the July 21 finale, Homeister reached the winner’s circle twice and cemented her second straight title with 43 victories, three better than Eric Camacho and four over Horacio Karamanos, who had…
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Volunteers spruce up CC’s Chikahominy Wildlife area
A group of 25 volunteers flexed their muscles and endured the heat to mulch and plant native plants, maintain and mark hunter access trails, and install wood duck boxes on Morris Creek during a “Friends of the Chickahominy Wildlife Management Area” (WMA) kick-off event on June 12 in Charles City. The volunteers are part of a new Friends group that will work with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries to improve wildlife habitat. Volunteers invested 132 hours of work. Volunteers included members of the VDGIF Complementary WorkForce Program, the Historic Rivers Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalist Program,…
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