Caroline County News

For more than 100 years, the history and heritage of millions of former slaves sat in a dusty warehouse of federal archives.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will close 18 rest areas around the state on Tuesday, July 21.

It's a long shot, but Virginia officials are hoping that they will be able to find a way to reopen 19 closed rest stops on the state's interstate highways in a couple of years.

Tim and Sherry Sterner have started a new life. The former Caroline County couple have finalized their bankruptcy, moved to Spotsylvania and are trying to move on with their lives.

Some Caroline County School Board members and the school superintendent said they plan to stand behind their embattled head football coach despite his recent felony indictments.

Contact Information: Percy Ashcraft, County Administrator Office: 633-5380 or E-Mail This message is the seventh in 2009 to better update our citizens and visitors to the website.

The rain has stopped, for now, replaced by mood-lifting blue sky and puffy white clouds.

Caroline County residents looking to pay their taxes, get dog tags or do other county business will no longer have to go to the Courthouse Complex--because some county offices have moved.

With the addition of a psychiatric nurse practitioner, the Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic has become the first free medical clinic in Virginia to offer full-time mental health services.

Mr. Jeff Wick, principal of Caroline High submitted his resignation on June 9, 2009.

Lou Melvin Baylor Jr., 61, of Hanover County, formerly of Caroline County, died Thursday, June 18, 2009, at Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond.

The county was recognized by the National Civic League's All-America City program, which recognizes communities that tackle challenges and achieve results that have a significant local impact.

Caroline High School presented the following top awards recently at a special ceremony.

FROM: Percy C. Ashcraft, County Administrator On Behalf of the Caroline County Board Of Supervisors P.O. Box 447, Bowling Green, Virginia 22427 pashcraft@co.caroline.va.us 633-5380 DATE: June 19, 2009 Caroline County Wins National Civic League prestigious All America Cities title! Caroline County, Virginia one of 32 communities from across the ...

The inspiration for a 15-minute fireworks spectacular in Caroline County on Sunday night was a full-contact rugby game played in wheelchairs.

The Caroline County Sheriff says they've made an arrest in the case of counterfeit cash we told you about Friday at 11.

CHS student Shelby Godfrey is the winner of the design for the county's quilt patch to be part of the National All America Cities Quilt .

For everyone's safety, if the Caroline County man who was charged with housing and training dogs for dogfighting is found guilty, let's hope he receives jail time, counseling, and a ban on contact with animals ["Man faces dogfighting charges," June 2]. Dogfighting is heinous cruelty to animals.

With help from landowners, conservation agencies and state and federal officials, Fort A.P. Hill fared well last year in a mission to discourage incompatible development outside its gates.

Caroline County investigators are searching for two men wanted for passing counterfeit cash at a McDonald's in Bowling Green.