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February 21, 2007
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Greener pastures?
County police salaries lag behind neighboring localities
By Richard Foster CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Despite having a bigger geographic area and population to patrol, Chesterfield County police officers are paid smaller starting salaries and generally make significantly less by rank than neighboring jurisdictions. A starting Chesterfield officer makes $36,000 per year, compared to $36,500 in Rich... More...
Gecker sues state and HMK
By Greg Pearson STAFF WRITER

Dan Gecker and the Crestwood Farms Residents Association are suing the State Water Control Board and HMK, LLC after the board gave HMK permission to alter wetlands on 160 acres near Powhite and Chippenham parkways for a mixed-use development. More...

Magnolia Green could pay higher taxes
Would raise $43.7 million for roads

By Greg Pearson STAFF WRITER The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on Mar. 14 before voting on whether to create a transportation district at Magnolia Green that would increase the community's property tax rate by 25 percent. More...

 Legal Notices
•TAKE NOTICE
Please take notice that the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield County, Virginia, at a regular meeting on March 14, 2007, commencing at 6:30 p.m., in the Public Meeting Room at the Chesterfield Administration Building, Rt. 10 and Lori Road, Chesterfield, Virginia, will hold a public hearing to con... More...
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 News
•County board passes watershed amendments
Following the advice of county staff and a unanimous recommendation by the Chesterfield Planning Commission, the county board enacted new amendments last week that placed the responsibility of trapping the runoff from development back on individual developers. More...
•County mental health services are not timely
•Chesterfield deputy police chief retires after 29 years
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  More News
•Historical Society hosts lunchtime lecture series
The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia invites you to take part in its annual Lunchtime Lecture Series on the last Wednesday of each month, January-May, at Magnolia Grange, 10020 Iron Bridge Road. Each lecture will begin at noon. More...
•Open house at tech center
•NEWS BRIEFS
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 Sports
•In the long run
Teacher inspires her students to run 10K
Drive by Davis Elementary School and you may very well see Helene Leong, Chesterfield's own version of the Pied Piper, leading 50 or so nine and 10 year olds around the Providence Road campus on a two-mile run. Leong's own desire to get healthy is now inspiring her students to do the same. In fact... More...
•Bound for college
•Tennis program returns for seniors
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 Letters/Opinion
•LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Specialty centers have advantages and disadvantages
[In the Dec. 13 issue,] there was an article concerning the various specialty centers offered by Chesterfield's school system and the fact that none of these centers are meeting their enrollment goals. Speaking from the experience of a parent with a student enrolled in a specialty center, there a... More...
•Newspaper should have run Bill Hastings' photo
•Where the candidate lives doesn't matter
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 Family
•School budget draws little interest from public
Even with more than half a billion dollars in spending at stake, only four people spoke during a public hearing last week on the FY08 budget for Chesterfield County Public Schools. And, most of those speakers and their messages could have been predicted by school board members. More...
•100 days
•Scaling back?
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 Seniors
•Winter tips for seniors
Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging, is advising family, friends and neighbors to take time to check on the wellbeing of older family members and friends, especially those living alone, to ensure that they have needed medications, food and heat. More...
•Registration underway for senior citizen academy
•Senior Day set for May 2
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 Crime Watch
•CRIME WATCH
Man asks police to arrest him
A 28-year-old Montana man used a shopping cart to break the front glass window of the K-Mart in the 12800 block of Hull Street on Feb. 8. Once Jonathan R. Wright was inside, he called police, saying he wanted to be arrested. Chesterfield police accommodated him, charging him with breaking and en... More...
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 Loose Ends
•Loose Ends
Where's my snow day?
My apologies to moms who would rather not have their kids at home and retailers who would like us all to be at the mall, but I need a snow day. I prefer a day when I have outside appointments so when they're cancelled I don't have to feel guilty. And, I'd like enough notice so I can rent a sappy m... More...
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