by James Ritch | Oct 28, 2019 | Features
Parksley has had lots to celebrate lately, but Wednesday’s groundbreaking for the new library might have been the biggest of them all. Hundreds, including Gov. Ralph Northam, Sen. Lynwood Lewis, Del. Robert Bloxom, and students from Metompkin Elementary School, turned...
by James Ritch | Sep 25, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Northampton school board has written its wish list for state funding in 2020, and money for competitive teacher salaries, called the Cost of Competing Adjustment (COCA), is the top priority, Superintendent Eddie Lawrence said Sept. 12. “If...
by James Ritch | Dec 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Connie MorrisonThe takeaway from Sen. Lynwood Lewis’ Dec. 18 town hall meeting was this: election years are difficult ones for progress, but certain things must get done.The difficulty with election years is that even the most routine legislative matters can become...
by James Ritch | Dec 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Linda CicoiraRocket Lab, the New Zealand-based company that is planning to build a launchpad at Virginia Space and Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island for its Electron rockets, announced $140 million in new funding last week.According to the...
