Goochland County News

Robert and Julia Smith were on their way from their home in Wilmington, N.C. to Pennsylvania on a vacation trip the other day when they decided they needed to make a stop.

Henrico County police ended an hours-long search for a larceny suspect just before 5 p.m. today, plucking him from a swamp off Patterson Avenue.

It was Christmas 1944 when Warren Johnson Sr., an aircraft commander with the U.S. Army Air Forces, gave his 4-year-old cousin Ben his first model plane, along with a promise to build it when he returned from the Pacific.

Photo by Jim Ridolphi Is this the most dangerous intersection in Goochland County? Many neighbors expressed that view at a recent Planning Commission public hearing regarding a proposed shopping center at the intersection.

Goochland County is preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July with a fireworks display that has become one of the county's most popular traditions.

The 35-Mile Drive Association met again last week, this time at the Edible Garden on River Road, one of the first stops in the envisioned road trip through the county along River Road out to Columbia, which the group hopes to promote in bringing tourist dollars to the county.

For 24 years a small group of batteaus have made an annual pilgrimage down the James River from Lynchburg to Maidens Landing in Goochland County; every year stopping in Scottsville, where the town greets them with a huge festival.

Whatever other factors combine to make this year's batteau trip down the James River unique, organizers and participants agree on one thing -- this year's should be a fast ride.

Grilling hot dogs and hamburgers over open flames is a rite of summer. But for about 70 people, a cookout yesterday in Goochland County was about more than good food and fellowship.

Hands and arms in constant motion, voice rising and falling by the word, Rabbi Yosef Bart engaged his class in an animated discussion on the age-old question of the chicken and the egg.

Lane Ramsey stopped short of calling it an investigation. But the interim Goochland County administrator is reviewing the county's biosolids rules in the wake of a controversial application of sludge in the James River floodplain during last week's heavy rains.

Benedictine High School's headmaster has been forced out by senior monks who are reorganizing the administration of the 98-year-old school .

For years, Brenda Clymer looked forward to receiving a gift certificate for spa services each time a special occasion rolled around.

With more than $1 million of federal stimulus funding on the way for Goochland's school system in the next two years, the school board authorized three new positions to aid the county's low-income and special education student populations.

NBC12 Viewpoint: Broadcasting only in digital NBC12 Viewpoint: Helping the homeless Richmond has its share of the chronically homeless.

Goochland Sheriff's deputies and Henrico Police have arrested a 28 year old Henrico man for the May 27 robbery of the C & F Bank in Goochland County.

Last year's presidential victory by Barack Obama in Virginia was an "aberration," said Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins May 26 at a luncheon for Goochland County Republicans.

All 12 of Doug and Tamra Adams' children have learned on the family's 131-acre farm in Goochland County, mostly in the 70-year-old granary they affectionately call "the little red schoolhouse." Now, the parents want to open their learning farm to other youngsters.

Richmond police are seeking information in the shooting death of a man early yesterday.

No one at 89-Paint winced when Helen Riley Anderson made a last-minute decision to change the colors she had chosen for each of the rooms in her three-story house.