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Festival of Feet walk-run Saturday

Posted on April 24, 2013 at 2:34 pm

BOWLING GREEN – The town of Bowling Green will host the sixth annual Festival of Feet Memorial Race April 27. The race memorializes former Virginia State Police Sgt. Mark Haygood, who died from brain cancer in 2008. Proceeds from the 5K-10K event benefit Caroline Relay for Life, which raises money for the American Cancer Society, as well as the Virginia State Police Association’s emergency relief fund and the town of

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  • Germanna sees center at YMCA

    Posted on April 3, 2013 at 3:51 pm

    Caroline Family YMCA is beginning to take shop next to Ladysmith Village.

    MILFORD – Germanna Community College administrators told county officials they hope to have a “full blown 40-acre campus in Caroline County” someday. And they wanted to get started now, they told the Board of Supervisors at the panel’s regular March 26 meeting. College officials want to partner with the new Caroline Family YMCA to add a two-classroom center to the new building, which is under construction adjacent to Ladysmith Village.

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  • Memorial run planned April 27

    Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:32 am

    BOWLING GREEN – The town of Bowling Green is making plans for its sixth annual Festival of Feet Memorial Race April 27. The race memorializes former Virginia State Police Sgt. Mark Haygood, who died from brain cancer in 2008. Proceeds from the 5K-10K event benefit Caroline Relay for Life, which raises money for the American Cancer Society, as well as the Virginia State Police Association’s emergency relief fund and the

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  • Animal attacks man, children in Doswell

    Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:50 pm

    Hanover County officials are investigating reports that a possibly rabid animal, perhaps a fox or coyote, attacked three people in the Doswell area recently. A man was attacked by an animal outside his home on Jefferson Davis Highway Thursday evening last week and was knocked to the ground. The man struggled with the animal and it eventually fled. Two children were attacked in their home on Pleasants Circle Friday morning;

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  • Caroline YMCA enrolling members

    Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:18 am

    The Caroline Family YMCA has begun enrolling members even while the new building begins to take shape at Ladysmith Village. The YMCA, part of the Rappahannock Area YMCA, has been operating out of a storefront office in Ladysmith for some time. The new YMCA already has enrolled 85 members, according to Keith Marine, who was named in September to run the Caroline YMCA. His goal is to have about 500

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  • Bike fest to tour Caroline

    Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    You might see a lot of people riding bicycles in Caroline County on Saturday. The Heart of Virginia Bike Festival will take a group of over 500 bicyclists through portions of Hanover, Caroline, and King William. The all-day event will start and end at Hanover Courthouse, beginning at 8 a.m. and finishing at 4 p.m. Bikers will follow a 101-mile route. Most of it, about 90 miles, will be in

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  • Fredericksburg man to head Caroline YMCA

    Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    A Fredericksburg businessman with ties to the Rappahannock Area YMCA has been named to run the new Caroline County YMCA when it opens next year. Keith Marine, 45, who lives in Fredericksburg and has operated Mailhouse Plus for the past two decades, already is involved with the development of the Caroline YMCA. Marine served on one of the YMCA boards for over 10 years. He began by serving on the

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