Henrico’s path to the future will not follow Interstate 295 south to the James River with suburban development. The comprehensive plan adopted last night was amended to address the concerns of Varina residents.

Henrico County’s 2026 Comprehensive Plan covers the entire county, but Varina was the only area worth talking about for most of the speakers at last night’s public hearing. From the Varina Beautification Committee to a tree farmer who lives on the border with New Kent County, speakers asked the county Board of Supervisors not to turn Varina into another Short Pump.

Many residents of eastern Henrico County don’t care where the funds come from to build a new school. What they care about is that students aren’t going to classes in trailers, don’t have to wait in long cafeteria lines and have facilities on par with other parts of the county. About 75 residents attended a public hearing about the proposed Henrico budget last night at a Board of Supervisors meeting. Many wore buttons reading “Eastern Henrico Schools Now.“

The gloves come off in Henrico Henrico County is accustomed to flush times, not tough times. Henrico, for as long as anyone can remember, has been synonymous with excellent schools, well-managed government and satisfied residents, give or take occasional grumbling from its eastern precincts. As county governments go, Henrico has been the proverbial well-oiled machine.

Henrico boards in dispute Supervisors say no to $94 million in school capital improvements Traditionally, the Henrico County School Board submits its budget and capital-improvement plan to the Board of Supervisors, which approves funding, and everyone leaves happy. Not this year. The supervisors, at the recommendation of County Manager Virgil R. Hazelett, readily agreed yesterday to fund the schools’ $518.4 million operating budget request.

“I want all our children to have the best, and I don’t think the men are dishing out the best,“ Marion T. Yobs said during her 1960 campaign for the House of Delegates. Mrs. Yobs had in 1955 become the first woman in Henrico County’s long history to run for political office, seeking the Tuckahoe District seat on the Board of Supervisors. After running unsuccessfully for supervisor as a Democrat, she campaigned for the House of Delegates as an independent in a 1960 special election and in the 1971 election for one of three House seats Henrico was allotted after the General Assembly reapportioned after the 1970 census.