Providence Forge Christmas Parade is Dec. 10

The Providence Forge Annual Christmas Parade will take place on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m. along U.S. Route 60 (Pocahontas Trail). The Grand Marshall for this year’s parade is C. Linwood Gregory, who served as New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney and whose law career began in Providence Forge. The parade will also pay tribute with a special honoree in memoriam of the late Richard W. Morris Jr., who passed away on Nov. 6, 2023, and served as a founding member of the Providence Forge Volunteer Rescue Squad. Pocahontas Trail will close to vehicular traffic around 1:45 p.m. Motorists will…
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Tenth annual New Kent Grand Illumination

Forge Foundation feast provides outlet, community gathering in New Kent

Holiday seasons are often times where family and friends gather together to celebrate and rekindle relationships. For others, it is a time where support and love are needed, whether they are missing a loved one or just need an uplifting moment to take their minds off stresses caused by the outside world. For one organization every Thanksgiving, they have brought a sense of peace for several New Kent citizens, even for a day. The Forge Foundation opened the doors of the Providence Forge Recreation Center on Nov. 23 for its annual rendition of its Thanksgiving Feast. Now in its fourteenth…
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Historic church in Lanexa to operate as Pamunkey Methodist

Pamunkey United Methodist Church will be leaving the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church after its Dec. 3, 9 a.m. service to operate independently. Beginning Dec. 10, the historic church will be known as Pamunkey Methodist Church. Located at 15000 Pamunkey Church Road in Lanexa, the first service will be conducted at 9 a.m. with the Rev. Dr. Joel Mattsson-Boze as its new pastor.

Veterans honored at New Kent Middle School

New Kent County 2023 voting results

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Charles City County 2023 voting results

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Gray initiated into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Wendy Gray, a resident of Quinton, was initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi on Nov. 6. In order to be named to earn the recognition, an inductee must be in the top ten percent of seniors and top 7.5 percent of juniors and be invited into the organization. Gray was initiated into the society at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Letter to the Editor: Says your vote on school board members does matter

On the threshold of the 2023 school board elections, this letter is a reminder of the potentially high stakes of their outcome. I taught French in New Kent County and in West Point Public Schools for nine years. My career in education came to an end abruptly in 2018 when I refused to formally and publicly contradict my belief that girls are not boys. Though I had been using the new name of one of my students who was “transitioning”, my school administration would not be satisfied until they knew I had capitulated by using incorrect pronouns to refer to…
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Charles City Fire Station #2 grand opening