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Published: Jan 16, 2012  New school board chair Beth Hardy said last week the board will present a balanced budget to the board of supervisors when it finishes its work January 31, the projected date for approval of the schools budget. “We are preparing a budget that will eliminate this,” said Hardy after last week’s four-hour meeting, referring to the more than $500,000 gap between projected revenue and expenditures. Toward that end the board adopted a partial reorganization chart for schools administration that adds a second assistant school superintendent for operations but eliminates… Read more... Published: Jan 13, 2012 Monk removed as Goochland abbey’s administrator The Catholic monk in charge of the Mary Mother of the Church Abbey in Goochland County, which owns and operates Benedictine College Preparatory school, has been removed from the position pending the outcome of an investigation into an allegation of sexual misconduct. The Rev. Luke Travers, a former headmaster of the elite Delbarton School in New Jersey, was removed from his role as the Virginia abbey’s canonical administrator Wednesday pending the outcome of the inquiry, said Hugh Anderson, president of the American Cassinese Congregation. Travers is also prohibited from having… Read more... Published: Jan 11, 2012 Homeowners Warned About Potential Safety Issues with Gas-Fired Generator Installations Concerned about homeowner safety, Goochland County Department of Building Inspection has issued a warning to all residents of the County who have had gas-fired whole-house generators installed by Virginia Air Mechanical. In Chesterfield County, they obtained a court-ordered injunction against local corporation Virginia Air Mechanical in an effort to obtain information about the location of gas-fired whole-house generators installed by the company. The injunction also prevents the company from doing any work in Chesterfield County until at least January 17, when there will be another… Read more... Published: Jan 11, 2012  “We seek to restore credibility and trust in your School Board,” said Beth Hardy, District 4, last Wednesday night, shortly after being elected chair at the organizational meeting, along with District 5 member John D. Wright as vice-chair. All members of the board this year are new, with three incumbents who ran for re-election in November having been defeated. In other organizational business, District 2 member W. Kevin Hazzard was selected as the board’s representative to the Maggie Walker Governor’s School Board and John Lumpkins Jr. was named representative… Read more... Published: Jan 11, 2012  A group of Goochland County residents has filed a lawsuit challenging the Board of Supervisors’ approval of a conditional-use permit to allow the former Benedictine High School to relocate to the rural county. The complaint, filed last week in Goochland County Circuit Court, names as defendants the Board of Supervisors and the Benedictine Society of Virginia, which owns and operates the school. The lawsuit is asking for the permit to be invalidated. “My clients think the board violated the law,” said the residents’ attorney, Patrick M. McSweeney, a graduate… Read more... Published: Jan 11, 2012 Goochlanders eligible for earthquake assistance . This announcement came after intense work by local and state officials to have the concerns of our residents heard. Our concerns were heard, and on Tuesday the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) granted Governor Robert McDonnell’s request to have Goochland County added to the list of localities covered under the Individual Assistance Declaration. Individual homeowners may now be eligible for relief for property loss/damage due to the 5.8 magnitude quake and subsequent aftershocks. Until the formal process is identified, Goochland County residents,… Read more... Published: Jan 11, 2012  Dallas Silva is in the third grade at Randolph Elementary School. He will turn nine on Jan. 13, and he already understands that a person who can help others has an obligation to do so. Several months ago, Dallas had an idea to do a toy drive to collect toys for kids living in shelters at Christmas. “We talked about it, and then one day driving him to school, we started talking about how cold it was,” said his mother Sonda. “We decided then that instead of having a toy drive that we would concentrate on blankets. In fact, Dallas came up with the idea to… Read more... Published: Jan 11, 2012 Assessments drop 4 percent It didn’t take long for the new Goochland Board of Supervisors to get a sense of the challenges they will face this year, as shortly after their organizational meeting last week, they heard Assessor Glenn Branham’s report on 2012 assessments. Branham confirmed to the board a widely anticipated decline in assessments of taxable property in Goochland. Compared to the previous year, assessments declined 4 percent, said Branham, to a total taxable value of $4,683,911,827. Assessments for 2011 had declined 3.8 percent. “The decrease is due to the stubbornly… Read more... Published: Jan 04, 2012  Goochland’s newly elected supervisors got a look at the county they will be working for last Thursday. In a tour suggested by District 3 Supervisor Ned Creasey, they visited a number of county government sites, including convenience centers, the Sheriff’s Office, three park sites, Animal Control, the Fire Training Center and more. “I went to Ms. Dickson to set up the tour,” said Creasey. “I thought the new board needed to see where the tax dollars were going.” One place tax dollars are not currently going is to arm Sheriff’s deputies,… Read more... Published: Jan 04, 2012  “The most worthwhile charity I’ve ever been involved in.” That’s what Paul Galanti called Families of the Wounded Fund, Inc. as he addressed the Goochland Rotary Club last Friday. Retired naval officer, Vietnam POW and Virginia Commissioner of Veterans Services, Galanti was the guest speaker at the club’s monthly meeting. He is a director of the fund. “The worst of the wounded come to McGuire Hospital,” Galanti told the group in his address. He told the members of a wounded soldier who suffered head injuries in a helicopter crash he visited… Read more... |
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