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Field of Dreams Gymnastics looks to climb out of the ashes
Fourteen hours before the fire that destroyed a warehouse in Isle of Wight County’s industrial park off Benns Church Boulevard, 11-year-old Mackenzie Hess was inside ...
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IWCS: Security officers, deans making measurable impacts
The addition of unarmed school security officers, or SSOs, and “dean of students” positions at each high school has, over the past five months, achieved ...
by Stephen Faleski, Tuesday, January 23, 2024 10:36 am
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School Board seeks seat on growth task force
Isle of Wight County’s School Board wants a seat on newly elected Supervisor Renee Rountree’s proposed “growth management” task force. Rountree, who was elected in ...
by Stephen Faleski, Friday, January 19, 2024 1:33 pm
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School Board urges General Assembly support for sales tax bill
Isle of Wight County’s School Board, on Jan. 11, unanimously adopted what its chairman, Jason Maresh, hopes will become a joint resolution of the board ...
by Stephen Faleski, Friday, January 19, 2024 9:31 am
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State could overrule counties that reject solar farms under proposed law
A pair of General Assembly bills, one in the House of Delegates and the other in the Senate, propose allowing the state to overrule county-level ...
by Stephen Faleski, Friday, January 19, 2024 8:37 am
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Cramer: Written plan to resolve IWCS deficit forthcoming
Superintendent Theo Cramer has pledged to issue a written report to the School Board in the coming weeks detailing his efforts to resolve the larger-than-expected ...
by Stephen Faleski, Thursday, January 18, 2024 7:36 pm
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IW supervisors elect Acree as chairman
Isle of Wight County’s Board of Supervisors unanimously elected Joel Acree to succeed William McCarty as chairman at its Jan. 4 reorganizational meeting. Acree, who’s ...
by Stephen Faleski, Thursday, January 18, 2024 7:34 pm
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Worker recalls moments before Industrial Park fire in Isle of Wight
The first sign of trouble Andrew Walker recalls was a loud “bang.” Then he saw flames coming through the walls of the automotive shop where ...
by Stephen Faleski, Thursday, January 18, 2024 3:17 pm
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Isle of Wight to begin enforcing ban of slots-style ‘skill games’
Any operators of slots-style video games in Isle of Wight County have until Jan. 15 to remove the now-illegal gambling machines that have proliferated across ...
by Stephen Faleski, Wednesday, January 10, 2024 11:22 am
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BOB Fest still on schedule
Smithfield’s BOB Fest, an annual all-you-can-eat festival highlighting Bloody Marys, oysters and Brunswick stew, will this year coincide with two long-planned bridge closures likely to ...