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Foundation targets Caroline for grants

Posted on May 8, 2013 at 12:00 pm

The Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region will award grants to charitable organizations that strive to meet critical needs Caroline County. The foundation’s board of governors has singled out charitable organizations that serve Caroline County and its citizens as its priority to receive competitive grants through its community enrichment fund. By adding a matching opportunity for local donors to contribute at any level, the fund also allows residents of

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  • Planners take up rural resort, pigs

    Posted on May 8, 2013 at 11:52 am

    MILFORD – Concerns about future weddings at proposed rural resorts surfaced last week during a work session of the Caroline County Planning Commission. Commissioners also indicated that they feel pushed to hurry and put together proposed zoning ordinance amendments that would pave the way for the development of rural resorts. So they agreed to take the matter up again at their June 5 work session. Commissioners told county planner Angeline

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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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  • Author to lead equine events for State Fair, Meadow

    Posted on April 24, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    The Virginia Farm Bureau Federation has appointed Leeanne Meadows Ladin as the new director of equine events and Secretariat programs at The Meadow Event Park and the State Fair of Virginia. Ladin is the award-winning co-author of the best-selling book “Secretariat’s Meadow – The Land, The Family, The Legend.” She also wrote “Riva Ridge – Penny’s First Champion” and “The State Fair of Virginia – More Than A Midway.” Leeanne

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  • School Board moves to study uniforms

    Posted on April 17, 2013 at 5:41 pm

    MILFORD – The Caroline County School Board is moving ahead to study whether to require students to wear uniforms. The board voted unanimously to create a committee to study the issue during its regular meeting Monday evening this week. The panel, to be headed by Superintendent Greg Killough, will be comprised of two parents, two teachers, a principal from each of the school division’s six schools, the director of special

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  • Library ‘Friends’ seeks donations for auction

    Posted on April 12, 2013 at 11:13 am

    The Friends of the Caroline Library is soliciting donations of items that may be sold at the organization’s upcoming annual auction to benefit the library system. The annual dinner and auction is the major fund-raiser to benefit the Caroline Library system. Monies raised are used to buy books and pay for other expenses. The Caroline Library is a nonprofit organization. It receives most of its funding from the county and

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  • Silver puts pigs on proposed rural resort site

    Posted on April 8, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    Pig farming operations are under way on Silver Cos. property near historic Moss Neck Manor.

    (updates – includes response from Silver Cos., comments from farmer) Silver Cos., the commercial development business known for its large office and retail projects in Spotsylvania and Stafford, is taking off the gloves – and letting loose the pigs – in its brewing battle with the owner of historic Moss Neck Manor. Silver Cos. owns 1,209 acres abutting and near Gil Shelton’s historic antebellum home on Burma Road and in

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