Montross News

Garnett W. Mothershead, 90, of Foneswood went to be with the Lord on Monday, Nov.

A Montross man has been arrested in connection with a Nov. 18 shooting that wounded another man and caused a nearby elementary school to lock its doors.

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Spotsylvania Presbyterian Church, 11121 Leavells Road, will hold its Fall Haiti-Kenya Mission Benefit Yard Sale on Nov.

Area residents may notice more noise from training at Quantico Marine Base this week.

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Two neighbors have filed additional objections to the issuance of permits by Westmoreland County for the construction of an O'Gara security training base near Montross.

Incumbent Del. Albert Pollard, D-Lancaster, has significantly more money on hand than his opponent Catherine Crabill, R-White Stone, as their campaigns near Election Day for the 99th District seat in the House of Delegates.

New concerns over court safety have again prodded the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors to consider building a new courthouse in Montross.

In a new lawsuit filed this week, opponents of an O'Gara tactical training base being built have asked a court to issue an emergency injunction to stop work at the site near Montross.

A bill that would add oversight on lagging federal efforts to clean up the Chesapeake Bay passed the House of Representatives yesterday.

"This zoning compliance issue is giving me a real headache," Richmond attorney David S. Bailey wrote in an undated, confidential memo as he struggled to find legal avenues to attack Westmoreland County zoning approvals of an O'Gara tactical training facility near Montross.

Opponents of an O'Gara security-training base now under construction near Montross have challenged Westmoreland County 's issuance of zoning and building permits for the project.

Most of the speakers at last Friday's public hearing on the proposed cancer center at Mary Washington Hospital talked of choice and competition, of access and continuity of care.

A Northern Neck woman has been fined $25 for taking in a deerhound brought to her animal shelter in 2005.

A big fight is brewing between residents of a small town in Virginia and those who want to bring powerful firearms there.

Westmoreland County supervisors have announced that all meetings of public bodies will be moved from courtrooms where cameras are not allowed to an auditorium where photography and video recording will be permitted.

Another Democrat has declared plans to challenge Rep. Rob Wittman next year. Scott Robinson, a recently retired U.S. Army colonel, is running for the Democratic nomination in the 1st District.

The location for Rep. Rob Wittman's Sept. 1 town hall meeting has changed. The Republican from Montross will now host the meeting at Dodd Auditorium at the University of Mary Washington.

Dr. Stephen Mandell was not in the audience last month when Michelle Obama opened the new community health center in Bowling Green.