Thursday, Feb. 11 Chesterfield Prevent Blindness Lions Club monthly meeting, 7 a.m., Shoney’s, 9963 Hull Street Road. This club concentrates on sight and hearing conservation. chesterfield lions.org. College board meeting, 3 p.m., John Tyler Community College – Chester Campus, 13101 Jefferson Davis Highway, Nicholas Center, room N102a. Open to the public. A sign-up sheet will be made available 30 minutes […]
2016-02-10
Kitchen fire in Chester displaces family
FIRE & EMS WATCHSix people were displaced from their home and are being assisted by family after an early morning fire Monday in Chester. Crews from Chesterfield Fire and EMS were summoned to a home in the 4500 block of Cara Hill Lane at 12:21 a.m. for the report of a kitchen fire. All six had evacuated the residence by the time firefighters […]
Teaching new culture – or wasting time?
As an educator (44 years) and taxpaying Chesterfield citizen, I’d like to question/ challenge the curriculum of J.B. Watkins Elementary School that my third-grade son is taking. For three years now, he has been taking Chinese, once a week. After three years, he only knows around 40 Chinese words, and 98 percent of them are numbers. I can count from […]
Stuck at the Shop
Loose EndsIs it still winter? “What a difference a day makes” was either a line in a song or the title. I’m not sure which, but it certainly describes this winter. I am sure the original song wasn’t about the weather though. We still have a pile of snow at the bottom of the driveway, and the temperatures were in the […]
Robious seventh-grader is county’s top speller
ANNOUNCEMENTSThis year’s top speller in Chesterfield County Public Schools is Robious Middle School seventh-grader Grace Saunders. She won the countywide spelling bee on Feb. 2 after correctly spelling “sanctimonious” and “chihuahua” and will represent the school district in the regional spelling bee on March 12. The spelling bee runner-up is Madison Leonard, an eighth-grader at Bailey Bridge Middle School. In […]
Legals
VIRGINIA: IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTERFIELD COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. JASON A. CROWE CL15I-1323 1675 SKY MOUNTAIN DR., APT. 637 RENO, NEVADA 89523 AND CROWE COMPUTERS, LLC REGISTERED AGENT: JASON A. CROWE 2436 SKYVIEW DRIVE RENO, NEVADA 89523 AND THREE THOUSAND AND ONE DOLLAR AND FORTY SIX CENTS ($3,001.46) and GLENN JONES CL15I-1824 22400 SKYLINE BLVD., […]