Westmoreland County News

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A former softball coach in Westmoreland County has been sentenced to prison for sex crimes involving a 14-year-old player.

Nearly three months after its dedication, a new $500,000 visitors center remains closed to the public at the Westmoreland County birthplace of President James Monroe.

The Virginia State Police are investigating allegations of financial and other irregularities in the Colonial Beach school system, school officials said this week.

The Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors has finalized the county budget for 2008-09. The budget is a staggering $56 million, with a tax increase of more than 13 percent.

The Democratic candidate for the 1st Congressional district is suspending his campaign, the first step toward withdrawing from the race entirely.

The King George School Board had a lively discussion over whether some children living on Trigger Lane should be allowed to continue to attend county schools.

That discussion took place at its meeting on June 11.

At the same meeting, the School Board took action to increase cafeteria meal prices, but a decision on Trigger Lane students and action on student fees was put off until the next meeting on July 9.

Whether to set tuition rates that would allow out-of-county students to attend school in King George was quashed for the time being, but set aside for reconsideration in the future.  

Queshawn Fitzgerald , 16, of Richmond, Frank Brown 13, of Hampton and Luis Lopez, 15, of Westmoreland County, do online research with instructor Kathy Clarke on Thursday morning during James Madison ...

A few weeks ago, I visited the Westmoreland County animal shelter. This is a clean, well-run entity of local government service that gets by on minimum funding and the dedicated services of two workers.

Beginning in July, the state Division of Shellfish Sanitation will begin a shoreline survey on the Yeocomico River located in Northumberland and Westmoreland counties.

A blockbuster debate over transportation funding in Virginia is shaping up over the next week.

ETWEEN coming back from National Guard duty in Iraq in 2004 and taking a job at Northern Neck State Bank not long after, Chip Jones of Montross found himself driving trucks for a time.

Colonial Beach Mayor-elect Frederick C. Rummage plans to pursue combining the school superintendencies of the town and Westmoreland County when he takes office July 1. "Spending more than $600,000 for the ...

Letter-writer Charles Tuck used a lot of words to make the point, I guess, that somehow having a tax increase of two-tenths of one percent more than Stafford County somehow makes Spotsylvania worse off than ...

I was passing through a pastoral setting in Westmoreland County on my way to an assignment.

Pittsburgh Business Times - by Patty Tascarella Two months ago, Peter Dochinez went trout fishing and caught a concept for a new company.

Carolyn D. Brann, 79, of Fredericksburg peacefully passed on Monday, June 2, 2008, at Mary Washington Hospital.

Five days after turning 18, King George County High School senior Brian Lusher decided to take the plunge--out of an airplane.

A developer is facing a fine of nearly $50,000 for land clearing for some Westmoreland County ball fields near Montross that destroyed wetlands and fouled streams.

OBERT E. LEE gets all the attention, which is only nat- ural given modern folks' widespread interest in the American Civil War.