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People in the news
•Connie Crandall, a new Girl Scout volunteer from Isle of Wight, was invited by Bobby Schuermann, a membership specialist for the Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast, to attend the council's open house event on Nov. 23 at A Place for Girls, the council's...Tags: People, Children
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School news
Carrollton Elementary School classes were challenged to gather as many canned goods and other foods as possible for the county's underprivileged. The class that collected the most would get $100 in scholastic dollars to be used at the book fair hosted...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Middle Schools, Isle of Wight County, Academic Progress, Festive Event
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Community kudos
Each Christmas season, the Carrollton Volunteer Fire Department on Route 17 in Isle of Wight County sells fresh-cut Fraser fir trees and wreaths for holiday decoration. This benefit fundraiser enables the fire/rescue department serving Carrollton to...Tags: Christmas, Forestry and Timber, Carrollton, Fires, Forests
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Community events
The Toys for Tots classic car show will be held Saturday rain or shine at Charlie Daniel's Racing, 20128 IWIP Road. Registration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the entry fee is $15 plus toys. First-, second- and third-place prize trophies, plus best in show,...Tags: College of William and Mary, Christmas, Toys, Frank Lloyd Wright, Defense
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Bad math skews school funding
247-4644Demographers at the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service found that some tax allocations to local school divisions might be unfair because they don't always count their school-age residents accurately. York County and...Tags: Gloucester County, Civil and Public Service, Population, Colleges and Universities, Isle of Wight County
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Localities struggle to keep coffers full
Retail sales are down. Fewer-than-expected tourists are staying in hotels. Gas-guzzling trucks and vans are depreciating at more than double the usual rate because high fuel prices earlier this year drove down the demand for big vehicles. Property...Tags: Property, Budgets and Budgeting, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Real Estate Sales, World War II
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Guide to Giving
There are many opportunities to give to the local community this season. Here are a few of them. Z104's "Stuff the Bus" Toys for Tots Drive. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday. Patrick Henry Mall. 249-4305. Be a Santa to a Senior. Through Friday. The national...Tags: Ferguson Center for the Arts, Toys, Children, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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Who's counting?
A census is such a huge undertaking that the federal government, with all its resources, only does it once a decade — and only with much agonizing and contention over the results. Yet every locality in Virginia is required to do a census every...Tags: Population, Sales, Demographics, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Real Estate Sales
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Black Friday sales surprise retailers
247-4744Unlike last year, Selina Lawhon didn't have any problems finding a place to park last weekend as she kicked off her holiday spending spree at several Newport News retailers. She didn't have to wait in any long lines, and she had no trouble finding the...Tags: Patrick Henry, Christmas, Best Buy Company Incorporated, Black Friday (shopping), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Our median home prices buck national trends
757-247-4741The number of homes that were sold on the Peninsula and in Isle of Wight last month dropped by 15.4 percent from October 2007, a steeper decline than the 1.6 percent slowdown realized nationally. But the local market didn't see the dramatic drop in the...Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Sales, James City County
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How would you fix roads?
247-4535Drivers try to escape the rush-hour traffic that clogs up Benns Church Boulevard by cutting through the rural back roads between Carrollton and Smithfield. There aren't many sidewalks linking the neighborhoods in and around Windsor. And drainage along...Tags: Road Transportation, Carrollton, Transportation, Smithfield, Heavy Engineering
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Holiday closures
Federal: Closed State: Closed Local: • Gloucester County — Closed Nov. 27-28 • Hampton — Closed Nov. 27-28 • Isle of Wight — Closed Nov. 27-28 • James City County — Closed Nov. 27-28 • Mathews County — Closed Nov....Tags: Urbanna, Deltaville, Holidays, Waste Management Incorporated, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia)
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