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Recently I took my two kids, Daniel and Madison, to Busch Gardens, along with my nephew Christian and a friend of Madison's. All the way down to Williamsburg I regaled them with tales from the late 1970s when I spent three glorious summers working at King's Dominion - surely a teenager's dream job if there ever were one. More ... Lisa Billings/Chesterfield Observer Emily Adkins learns how to apply mascara while attending a recent program at Central Library aimed at helping teens look their best. More ... Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn would have probably enjoyed paddling the Lagoon Water Trail in the Dutch Gap Conservation Area. They would savor the passageways through the labyrinth. They would wonder at the large congregation of nests perched on the treetops. The rope swing would indulge them for hours, and the graveyard would warrant return trips. More ... Hearing loss isn't just limited to older adults. "We're seeing a lot more children, partly because of the required newborn hearing screening," observes Valerie Moore, audiologist with Virginia Ear, Nose and Throat Associates (VENTA). "We're able to identify children faster and start the intervention earlier than before. Many children may have been missed in the past. More ... A partial solution to overcrowded classrooms in Chesterfield seems obvious: have students take more courses online from home. In fact, according to Dr. Lynda Gillespie, director of technology, that's already happening. Last school year, 2,709 students took online classes and 857 took them during summer school. More ... Lisa Billings/Chesterfield Observer NASCAR driver Jeff Burton holds up a Clover Hill High School t-shirt that he received last week after talking to 10th-graders there about driving safely. More ... Students settled into the routine of classes last week at the newly-opened Tomahawk Creek Middle School. Clockwise from top left: Jordan Sisco discusses vocabulary words with a fellow student in the library. Echo Li chats with friends over lunch. Malcolm Stewart peruses books in the library. Students bustle through the main hallway at Tomahawk Creek. More ... |
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