Dominion Virginia Power has restarted one of its nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County after refueling. The 921-megawatt North Anna 2 reactor, which was back up to full power this morning, had been offline since Sept. 13. The station’s Unit 1 reactor continued to operate at full power throughout the Unit 2 refueling.

This daily column features short news items from the 20 localities that make up the greater Richmond area. On Mondays, we run at least one item from each of the localities. If you have a news item, call 649-6990 or e-mail us at Amelia Work has begun on the visitors center at Amelia County’s Sailor’s Creek Battlefield State Park. The $1.1 million center is expected to be completed next summer.

Charles City The Charles City County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Government/School Administration Building auditorium, 10900 Courthouse Road. The agenda includes a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the floodplain ordinance that adopts new federal flood-insurance rate maps and proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance.

Charles City The Charles City County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Government/School Administration Building auditorium, 10900 Courthouse Road. The agenda includes a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the floodplain ordinance that adopts new federal flood-insurance rate maps and proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance.

Jessie “Pete” Minor Jr. of Maidens learned how to march in the Army during World War II. He came home and spent most of his life marching for the Lord. Mr. Minor, longtime leader of the Usher March in Baptist churches throughout the counties of Goochland and Louisa as well as the Richmond metropolitan area, died Tuesday in a Henrico hospital. The 85-year-old Louisa native had been in failing health since undergoing surgery in September, when he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Richmond Because of a forecast of rain today, the Make a Difference Day project scheduled for Byrd Park has been postponed until Nov. 8. The event is a partnership involving The Virginia Home, Butler’s Landscaping, Friends of William Byrd Park and Richmond’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities. It will involve about 100 volunteers who will build a handicapped-accessible sheltered picnic table and a raised flowerbed across the street from The Virginia Home.

Louisa County residents pitted their unique rural history against commercial plans at Zion Crossroads during a public hearing last night for plans to expand a sewage treatment plant. The county applied for a new permit to expand the capacity of the treatment plant in the county’s southwest corner from 100,000 to 700,000 gallons per day to better accommodate growth.

[tka: Quarles Christmas A Louisa County woman whose toddlers tested positive for cocaine pleaded not guilty to two counts of child neglect yesterday. Brenda D. Quarles, 26, is slated for a jury trial scheduled to start Feb. 18 in Louisa Circuit Court, according to the Louisa County Circuit Court Clerk’s Office. Quarles, who lives west of the town of Louisa, left her small boys at home with her sister on April 16. The sister later noticed the toddlers, then 3 years old and 16 months old, were sluggish, and one of them was vomiting, she testified at a previous court hearing.

Louisa County’s government ended almost two years of wrangling with the approval of a contract to build Moss-Nuckols Elementary School for $16,407,365. The Louisa Board of Supervisors appropriated the money for the new school yesterday at a joint meeting with the School Board inside the Betty J. Queen Intergenerational Center. The School Board approved the contract at a subsequent meeting inside the community center.

This daily column features short news items from the 20 localities that make up the greater Richmond area. On Mondays, we run at least one item from each of the localities.

A Louisa County man pleaded not guilty yesterday to the accusation that child neglect led to his two toddlers testing positive for cocaine in April. Derrick A. Christmas, 25, maintained his innocence during an appearance in Louisa Circuit Court on two charges of felony child neglect. Christmas, who lives in the Zion Crossroads area of the county, had been spending most of his time with the boys’ mother, Brenda D. Quarles, 26. She also is charged with two felony child neglect counts.

A Louisa County man pleaded not guilty to a homicide charge brought in connection with a woman’s December overdose on a powerful opiate pain reliever. A judge set a Feb. 4 jury trial for Matthew G. Minster, 28, during an arraignment yesterday in Louisa County Circuit Court. Minster also is charged with two related drug-distribution counts. Authorities accuse him of having a role in the death of county resident Nicole Brockett, 24, a mother of infant twins when she died inside her home in the western part of the county.