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Editorial: Advice to manage finances at an early age

The world can be a dark place and there are some things are out of our control. One thing that we can control are our finances. This is my outlet to give advice to young people on how to handle their money before it gets out of hand. When I was in college, I received a refund check after paying for my classes and books. I thought these thousands of dollars was going to last me a while. But when the reality of paying for gas, food, paying bills, and taking out a girl a few dozen times, I had…
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Jenna Grace King Memorial Scholarship recipients

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Editorial: It’s time to understand each other instead of judging people for their beliefs

Charles City and New Kent are phenomenal communities. However, our communities aren’t perfect. Despite there being several opportunities to communicate and voice concerns, some people elect not to take on the issues in the foreground. Instead, they choose to navigate in the shadows to initiate uproar and confusion. Speaking with my employee Robb Johnson, he received an email from a person complaining about pictures that he took at the ‘One New Kent’ Unity Walk. That email accused him of a one-sided depiction of the event. While I cannot confirm the exact origins of the email, it may have come from…
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Letter to the Editor: Believes New Kent missed opportunity to install Internet lines

I do not understand why New Kent is not working with Dominion Power and an Internet provider to bury an Internet cable as they bury the power lines. When the power lines were buried on my road, I asked the contractor about the feasibility and was told they would allow the cable to be buried with the power cables. I brought this up at a board meeting and was ignored. I believe this was a huge missed opportunity. Harold Miller Quinton

Letter to the Editor: Thanks New Kent County for support

As your Sheriff serving this great New Kent County, I feel it necessary and important to say thank you to the citizens of our community. The citizens of this region continue to proudly show their support of this office in so many ways. We are blessed to have such an excellent relation with our community, and we are blessed to serve in such a community. As we face the day-to-day responsibilities of serving and protecting our communities, we are confronted with additional factors outside of our normal activities. The COVID-19 pandemic and the turmoil across our nation certain have affected…
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‘One New Kent’ Unity Walk

Primitive camping now available at Lawrence Lewis Jr. Park in Charles City

Primitive camping is now available at Lawrence Lewis Jr. Park in Charles City. The new camping area is the results of three years of work and was presented in 2017 by the James River Association to Charles City County leaders. In September 2017, James River Association representative Justin Doyle presented plans for construction of three primitive areas and one group camping area at Lawrence Lewis Jr. Park. The proposal came as the result of research that traffic on the Virginia Capital Trail that runs through the county has increased. With no hotels or places to stay along the route, the…
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Editorial: COVID-19 is forcing tough decisions, so don’t be naive to understand why they are made

Monday night’s decision by New Kent’s School Board to revert back to an all-virtual start instead of a hybrid start was indeed a tough decision. But it is also probably the right one for the time being. Now before some of you begin to bash me for what I just said, please understand that I can see how the impact of the decision is affecting families. I was probably the first one who favored a hybrid start because there are families where the adult works and would not have any supervision of the child. No supervision means the escalating of…
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