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March 27, 2024
BY G.C. ROSE
Award-winning crime fiction author Shawn A. Cosby was in Tappahannock Saturday entertaining an audience of more than 125 people with stories of his youth and professional career. His visit here was sponsored by the Essex Public Library. Cosby, who hails from Mathews County, is the author of four novels: My Darkest Prayer, Blacktop Wasteland, Razorblade Tears and his most recent […]
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Self-described plantaholic and hydrangea specialist, Lorraine Ballato, will speak at the upcoming Northern Neck Master Gardeners’ Gardening in the Northern Neck Seminar. This year’s theme is “Creating Outdoor Spaces – Defining your Lifestyle” and will be held April 13, 2024 at a new location, Lancaster Elementary School, 191 School Street, Kilmarnock, VA. “We are proud to be hosting this very […]
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Galaxy Night was celebrated at the Tappahannock Food Lion on March 23. According to Preston Kinney, the store’s customer services manager, Galaxy Night is a nutritional education event for elementary school students and their families to help make healthy shopping easier. Students and their families had the opportunity to learn to compare healthy meals based on Food Lion’s Guiding Star […]
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March 27, 2024
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The DAW Theatre in Tappahannock has officially been recognized as an historic landmark by a state agency. The DAW is among 10 places newly listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register. The theater is now the first commercial listing for Essex County in the state’s register of historic places. The Commonwealth’s Board of Historic Resourc- approved the Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) […]
Former School Employee Pleads Guilty
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March 27, 2024
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A 29-year-old former Essex School Division employee remains free on bond awaiting a July sentencing date after pleading guilty to a sex-related charge last week. Appearing in Essex County Circuit Court on March 20, Davonta Lamar Hill entered the guilty plea to a felony charge of proposing sex via a computer with a child less than 15 years of age. […]
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March 27, 2024
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At its most recent meeting, the Tappahannock Town Council heard budget requests from “outside agencies” for fiscal year 2025. The following organizations made presentations: • Essex County Public Library is seeking $7,000. Director Dana Smook reviewed some of the offerings the library has in store including a visit from Mathews County author S.A. Cosby who was in Tappahannock on March […]
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March 27, 2024
By Alyssa Hutton Capital News Service
The General Assembly introduced several proposals to update public school curricula, including education around food allergies, mental health, hazing and overdose prevention. Some legislative proposals add a specific focus to the current curriculum, while others are completely new. The bills to add new instruction had good intentions, but many did not explain what they were going to replace, according to […]
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March 27, 2024
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Judge Herbert M. Hewitt endorsed a variety of plea agreements during a full docket heard in Essex County Circuit Court on March 20. Hewitt accepted plea agreements in the following cases: • Naomi Ruth Wall, 47, pleaded guilty to a charge of distributing a Schedule I/II drug. Essex Commonwealth’s Attorney Vincent Donoghue told the court that a confidential informant was […]
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March 27, 2024
By Ed Finkel Community College Daily
A section of the sprawling Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a/k/a the Crime Bill, overturned a section of the Higher Education Act of 1965 that allowed prisoners to receive Pell Grants. Prior to that reversal, nearly 800 college programs had been established in about 1,200 prison or jail facilities across the U.S. Three years later, the […]
