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Numerous capital projects now on hold due to budget
Chesterfield County is proposing to delay a number of projects in its capital improvement plan (CIP) - including some approved by voters in the 2004 bond referendum - because of dwindling revenues. More...

According to sources, Costco is close to deciding on whether to move its Hull Street Road location to a free-standing building at Chesterfi eld Towne Center. To make room for Costco, a vacant space previously occupied by Dillard's department store would be torn down, and Costco would build its own building separate but near the mall. More...

If you grew up during the 1960s or 1970s, chances are you read the Flat Stanley children's books that were so popular during that time period, but did you make your own Flat Stanley doll and send him off to foreign lands? That's just what pupils in Bonnie Kasoff's Salem Elementary kindergarten class have been doing for the last six years. More...

Three Brandermill residents are proving you can fight City Hall and win - by trumping community association boards with the state legislature. More...
$52 million cut will be painful for school system
The distress call went out last week as Superintendent Marcus Newsome gave school board members and the community their first look at his proposed budget for FY10 (starting July 1), comprising cuts totaling $52 million. More...
CRIME WATCH
A man taking a shortcut through the woods between the Raceway gas station and a Food Lion store near the Heritage Court Apartments learned the same lesson as Little Red Riding Hood - walks may be safer if you just stay out of the woods. More...
Loose Ends
An inoculation would have to include a week or two in a sunny, warm place with lots of shopping opportunities - about the middle of March when I think it should be warmer than it is. My other half would like some golf and guy things to do since, for him, shopping is worse than cabin fever. More...
Dear Editor, I am writing to the [Chesterfield] Observer in response to Ms. Cantor's letter in the Jan. 7 edition. There are two points that I felt I must address. More...
In the Spotlight Black History Month Kick-Off Concert, Fri., Feb. 6, doors open at 5 p.m., concert at 7 p.m., Virginia State University, Daniel Gymnasium, 1 Hayden Drive. Patti LaBelle will perform. Free and open to the public; seating is first come, first served. For more information, call 748-1161 or visit www.chesterfield. gov. More...