Powhatan County News

In roughly the time it takes you to read this article, according to statistics offered by the National High School Center, a Washington, DC-based research group, 15 American high school students will have called it quits.

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

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.

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.

Helping others is a common thread in Michel Zajur's life. It began at an early age for the soft-spoken son of immigrants who moved to the Richmond area from Mexico in 1960.

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

Five Virginia Department of Corrections officers have been charged with animal cruelty involving the fondling of a K-9 dog and videotaping the two incidents.

JG: My name is Miao Yan Guo, but everybody calls me Jenny. I [came] from mainland China [from] a little city call Fuzhou.

Powhatan County School Superintendant Dr. Margaret S. Meara has taken action after a late bus drop-off angered a number of county parents.

Report: Va. infrastructure 'sliding toward failure' Stimulus funding The Commonwealth Transportation Board yesterday awarded $48.3 million in contracts for 120 federal stimulus projects.

The Powhatan Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last night to appoint Marsell Bustos to fill the vacant District 2 seat on the BOS.

No one has been officially appointed to fill the now-vacant District Two seat on the Powhatan Board of Supervisors, but BOS Chairman Bob Cosby said the board has entered into negotiations with Marsell Bustos.

Manakintown, site of a Monacan Indian village and early Huguenot settlement, was suggested by the Traceries, Inc.

County officials have repeatedly reminded Powhatan residents who oppose big-box development about the public process Walmart will have to go through if the mega retailer wants to build a store in Powhatan.

The Smith Family of Doswell won Hanover's "Spirit of Family" award at the 2009 Spirit of Volunteerism celebration earlier this year.

Virginia started receiving shipments of the swine flu vaccine September 30, "with those doses designated for health care workers and emergency responders," Virginia Health Commissioner Karen Remley told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Remley answered questions on the swine flu, or 2009 H1N1 virus, September 30 in a live video chat on ...

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

Two hundred Powhatan High School science students will soon have the opportunity to supply significant ecological data to a major Commonwealth department.

The events at the Powhatan County Fair this year included an "Angel Food Cake Dessert" Contest sponsored by the Virginia Egg Council, in conjunction with the Powhatan County Extension Office.