Westmoreland County News

Our granddaughter Katelyn Hall, EMT/firefighter, just graduated Colonial Beach High School on June 14.

An uproar of protest last night failed to stop the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Authority from approving a new contract to sell county property to The O'Gara Group Inc.

Westmoreland County School Superintendent Elaine Fogliani can add "outstanding" to her title.

Give him back his Town Hall office and access to staff, an attorney for Colonial Beach Mayor Frederick C. Rummage has demanded of the Town Council.

Nicholas and Andrew Pisani had the right attitude yesterday as they navigated the packed aisles of Fredericksburg's new Wegmans with their mom, Jennifer.

For 27 years as a Sierra Club lobbyist, Melanie Griffin got used to being called a tree hugger.

A recent trip to the O'Gara Group Training Facility located in Halifax County, near South Boston and Danville, proved informative and cleared up a lot of speculation and misinformation--at least for me--that seems to have spread like wildfire around Westmoreland County.

Harold Newnum entertains trash-site customers with country-music classics at Westmoreland County dump site.

Stafford resident Chris White is an amateur storm chaser and a self-described "storm junkie" who seeks out severe weather in the area.

The Colonial Beach Police Department may soon move from its old, cramped and moldy building on Irving Avenue to new quarters at the town's busiest intersection.

A Nebraska-based energy company has quietly purchased 400 acres in South Huntingdon with an eye toward building a $1 billion natural gas power plant to serve eastern and midwestern portions of the United States.

Adult beetles leave D-shaped holes in tree bark, about one-eighth-of-an-inch wide when they emerge from ash trees.

Westmoreland County officials left only bits of public paper along the path that led them to a controversial contract with The O'Gara Group, according to opponents of the security-training company.

The training and security division of Sycamore Township armored vehicle manufacturer O'Gara Group is causing a stir in a rural Virginia county with its plans to build 330 acres worth of shooting ranges and a high-speed racetrack.

Taxes on real estate, boats and cigarettes may all go up in Colonial Beach if a proposed $15-million budget is enacted later this month by Town Council.

Book signing and discussion, Thursday, June 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Westmoreland County Museum, 43 Court Square, Montross, 804/462-7280; Monday, June 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lancaster Community Library, 235 School St., Kilmarnock, 804/493-8440. The Fredericksburg mother-daughter writing team of Barbara Crookshanks and Virginia C. Johnson will discuss and ...

A Westmoreland County man has been convicted of five animal crimes arising from the discovery of three dead dogs in a rented house.

"Just an accident" sent Jerrell D. Jackson, 23, to prison for at least six years yesterday after he pleaded guilty in Richmond County Circuit Court to killing his cousin and neighbor O'Prentiss Ball on their way home from a party last summer.

The finance director of Colonial Beach schools is on administrative leave, School Board Vice Chairman Michael F. Looney said today.

At the rate they are going, it will take Westmoreland County Supervisor Larry Roberson and his wife, Vicki, another couple of years to pay off a big Colonial Beach water bill.