Powhatan News

Most recent position before coming to Powhatan: I was the law librarian for a law firm in Savannah, GA.

The Powhatan Board of Supervisors has decided to hire an outside consultant to review Walmart's traffic impact analysis.

The noise ordinance in Powhatan is legally defunct, unenforceable. The Virginia Supreme Court in May sent local governments scrambling to rewrite noise ordinances when it threw out a conviction on a noise violation in Virginia Beach, ruling that city's law was too vague.

The Powhatan Post Master and the supervisor of the post office retired Friday Oct.

After peaking during the third week of October, suspected cases of the Swine Flu have been declining among Powhatan County school children, school officials reported last week.

The board voted unanimously to make District 1 Supervisor Joe Walton vice chairman of the Powhatan Board of Supervisors.

State and local officials are bracing for another round of bad news from Virginia budget analysts today, as the House Appropriations Committee opens a two-day annual retreat at the Capitol.

The first permanent English settlement in the New World was Jamestown, Virginia.

A number of generous Powhatan residents gathered at the Mill at Fine Creek Oct. 30 to enjoy a delicious meal and support the Powhatan Christmas Mother program.

Of all the members of Sergeant First Class Max Garner's family who welcomed the soldier home on Oct.

Editor's note: The following is part of a continuing series in which we ask residents to describe their connection to the county.

Eleven-year-old Powhatan County resident Monica Plumb is the Kid of the Year. That's according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which honored Monica last week at the Humane Awards Luncheon in New York City.

More doses of the H1N1 vaccine are now available and a schedule has been set to immunize children in Powhatan County Schools.

The fight against Walmart in Powhatan, and the argument that drives it, is an emotional knee-jerk reaction void of facts, Walmart representatives said.

The Powhatan Planning Commission has settled on a new draft of the county's comprehensive plan it thinks is ready for public input.

In addition the well publicized statewide races, 100 seats in the House of Delegates are up for grabs.

The entire country has seen "lower than predicted yields from vaccine manufacturers," but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said yields from manufacturers are now "more in-line with original predictions." Health officials expect the additional shipments of the vaccine to arrive by mid-November. The Powhatan Health Department, ...

Five corrections officers are facing charges after a disturbing crime involving a dog.

Five Virginia correctional officers have been charged with misdemeanor animal-cruelty charges for allegedly videotaping one of the officers engaging in sexual contact with a dog.

THESE CONDITIONS...COMBINED WITH THE COOL AND DRY AIRMASS IN PLACE...WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF FROST LATE TONIGHT THROUGH DAYBREAK TUESDAY.