September 17, 2009

Virginia schools show steady gains in SOL testing
Virginia schools show steady gains in SOL testing

For the second consecutive year, a record number of Virginia’s public schools have reached full accreditation after passing state tests in math,...

Area farmers markets

Area farmers markets Ashland Farmers’ Market, 101 Thompson St., Ashland, (804) 798-9219. 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays through November. Byrd House Market,...


September 15, 2009

Fair’s new home also will be emergency shelter
Fair’s new home also will be emergency shelter

The designation is part of a 20-year agreement signed two years ago in exchange for a one-time state appropriation of almost $2.4 million to help build...

MS-13 gang members guilty in stabbing at Chesterfield club

Three members of the notorious MS-13 gang pleaded guilty yesterday to stabbing a man and leaving him for dead inside a Hispanic nightclub in Chesterfield...


September 14, 2009

Study: Half of area school cafeterias had no critical violations

Nearly 50 percent of public school and private school cafeterias in the Richmond area came out of unannounced Virginia Department of Health inspections...

Building permits for Sept. 14

Herbert T. Sr. and H B Robertson, owners; Horizon Homes of Virginia Inc., contractor; 2013 Libby Terrace, alterations, $192,500. Jack M. Parrish III, owner;...

Breakdown of cafeteria inspections

120 had no critical violations during inspections conducted during the 2008-09 school year; and 93 had two or fewer total critical violations for the...


September 13, 2009

Daystar Desserts CEO chef shares recipe for survival
Daystar Desserts CEO chef shares recipe for survival By JOHN REID BLACKWELL TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

In this economy, even cheesecakes are downsizing. At Daystar Desserts Inc. in Hanover County, smaller and simpler cakes are part of a back-to-basics strategy...

Hanover center gives students a jump in finding a career

Lee-Davis High School junior Haley Herbert doesn’t have a job yet, but when she’s ready, she has one waiting for her. Herbert is a second-year...


September 12, 2009

Where’s the money going?

Goochland: $6 million to widen U.S. 250 (Broad Street Road).   Hanover: $4.8 million to replace the bridge over Interstate 95 at Lewistown Road....

Chesterfield, Hanover, Goochland get stimulus money for road projects
By WESLEY P. HESTER TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

The Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has allocated $20.8 million of federal stimulus money to three priority transportation projects in...

USS Cole sailors’ families seek more compensation

The families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole are asking to reopen their lawsuit against Sudan in an effort to seek more money...


September 11, 2009

USS Cole sailors’ families seek more compensation

NORFOLK (AP)—The families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 attack on the USS Cole are asking to reopen their lawsuit against Sudan in an effort...

Chesterfield, Hanover, Goochland get $20.8 million for road projects

The Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will allocate $20.8 million of federal stimulus money to three transportation projects in Chesterfield,...

Two-time cancer survivor from Mechanicsville dies
By WESLEY P. HESTER TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

After twice beating breast cancer, Katherine “Kate” Talmage Homan, a 44-year-old mother of four from Hanover County, succumbed last week to...


September 10, 2009

Local schools now plan to show Obama’s speech
By JUAN ANTONIO LIZAMA AND ZACHARY REID TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS

A day after President Barack Obama’s televised remarks to students, area school officials yesterday were more supportive of his speech. That was...

Williams: Brown should be sentenced to appropriate community service

Becky Lee, chief program officer at the YWCA of Richmond, recalled her reaction upon learning that entertainer Chris Brown’s punishment for assaulting...

Suit claims Ashland youth organization mishandled money

Six parents involved with the Ashland Youth Recreation Association Inc. have filed a lawsuit against the organization’s officers, directors and commissioners...


September 09, 2009

Richmond students among few in area to see Obama speech
By KATHERINE CALOS, HOLLY PRESTIDGE AND ZACHARY REID TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS

The message yesterday was simple, and the kids seemed to get it: President Barack Obama implored the nation’s schoolchildren to take charge of their...


September 08, 2009

Richmond-area students head back to school
Richmond-area students head back to school

Dreary weather notwithstanding, students packed up and headed off to the first day of the new school year in the Richmond region today. it was a great...

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