Organizers of the All Good Music Festival, who had asked Caroline County officials to consider hosting the event, have decided to move it to a venue in Ohio.
The 16th annual event will be held in Thornville, Ohio, organizers announced this week. It will be held July 19-22, 2012 at Legend Valley, formerly the Buckeye Lake Music Center.
However, Tim Walther, president of Maryland-based Walther Productions, which puts on the festival, said he remains interested in Caroline.
"We like Caroline," he told a media outlet. "We like the location. We like the people...
Organizers of the All Good Music Festival, who had asked Caroline County officials to consider hosting the event, have decided to move it to a venue in Ohio.
The 16th annual event will be held in Thornville, Ohio, organizers announced...
BOWLING GREEN - Caroline County Memorial Post 221 of the American Legion and Bowling Green Post 10295 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will co-host a Veterans Day ceremony on courthouse square at 11 a.m. Friday.
Caroline Commonwealths Attorney Tony Spencer easily won a second term in Tuesdays election. He brushed off a challenge by John Bowers, who is a deputy in the office of the Spotsylvania County commonwealths attorney and a career prosecutor.
BOWLING GREEN The Friends of the Rappahannock conservation organization and six people have filed a lawsuit against the Caroline County Board of Supervisors that seeks to block sand and...
DOSWELL - Eight-year-old Robert Wood Jr. has been found alive. The autistic Caroline boy had been missing from a park in Hanover County since Sunday afternoon.
Searchers found the boy in a quarry adjoining North Anna Battlefield...
An extensive search was under way this week involving hundreds of volunteers who were looking for a 9-year-old autistic Caroline boy who went missing in a park in Hanover County.
Robbie Wood Jr. still had not been found after searchers...
MILFORD The Caroline County School Board agreed to trim nearly $1 million from the Bowling Green School Project. School officials will appear at the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors...
The former general manager of the Lake Land'Or Property Owners Association and a Caroline County contractor have been indicted on charges of scamming money from the association.
Deborah James was indicted on charges grand larceny and attempted...
BOWLING GREEN Caroline County Sheriff Tony Lippa and deputies from his office have harassed people attending the Caroline County Recovery Center by asking them for identification, according to the center staff and the...
MILFORD - The Caroline County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted this week to restore pay cuts that were imposed on county employees a year ago as it dealt with declining...
LADYSMITH Organizers of a YMCA for Caroline County held a kick-off meeting today to promote the project, which is expected to break ground in the near future.
A young mother and her 4-year-old son who were abducted in Delaware were rescued from their kidnapper thanks to the quick response of two Caroline County Sheriffs deputies, authorities reported.
A Caroline County woman has won $1 million from the Virginia Lottery.
Shirley Fauntleroy, who lives in the eastern part of the county near Essex, won the big bucks in the Lotterys $120 Million Cash Blowout scratch-off ticket game.
RICHMOND Two Richmond area men have been convicted in federal court in connection with the attempted robbery of the Mr. Fuel Truck Plaza in Caroline County in which a good Samaritan was shot and wounded.
According to Partin, federal disaster relief funds would help reimburse Caroline for costs for manpower and materials associated with damage caused by Hurricane Irene.
Caroline Acting Fire-EMS Chief Mark Garnett says about 10 people had to be rescued or helped from their vehicles in floodwaters last night and early today.
BOWLING GREEN A Caroline Circuit Court judge today granted a defense motion Wednesday to quash the latest indictments against former deputy sheriff Clyde Davenport.
Judge Joseph Ellis also took the unusual step of removing both attorneys in the case Commonwealths...
The proposal includes increasing fees related for residential building permits as well as new administrative fees and also increasing fees for various planning and zoning applications and inspections.
Fort A.P. Hill commander Lt. Col. Jack Haefner has signed a finding of no significant impact for the environmental assessment for two new proposed training ranges at the installation, officials announced Monday.
MILFORD The Caroline County Board of Supervisors delayed action on a proposal to allow Vulcan Materials Co. to mine sand and gravel from Black Marsh Farm in Rappahannock Academy.
BOWLING GREEN A Caroline County Circuit Court judge today refused to set bond for the driver of tour bus that overturned on Interstate 95, killing four passengers and injuring dozens more.
BOWLING GREEN The driver of a tour bus that went off Interstate 95 near Carmel Church, killing four and injuring dozens more, remains in jail charged with four counts...
Fort A.P. Hill will mark its 70th anniversary on Saturday by opening the installation up to visitors and hosting one of the showcase pageants of the military.
In addition, neighboring localities have special activities planned in conjunction...
BOWLING GREEN The Town of Bowling Green is going the way of the golf cart. The Town Council has approved an ordinance that will allow residents to operate golf carts on streets throughout...
A tour bus went off Interstate 95 near Carmel Church and overturned, killing four people and injuring dozens more. The bus driver was arrested following Tuesday morning
Four women were killed in the accident. The victims were transported...
Former Caroline deputy sheriff Clyde Davenport is charged with new crimes stemming from his trial last fall on charges of abusing his stepson when he was a boy.
Caroline Commonwealth's Attorney Tony Spencer filed documents charging Davenport...
BOWLING GREEN The Caroline Circuit Court judge who presided over last falls trial of former deputy sheriff Clyde Davenport now has declared a mistrial in the case.
Davenport has been in the Pamunkey Regional Jail since being convicted...
Caroline County is adding a new sixth voting district. The Board of Supervisor approved the redistricting plan by a 3-2 vote at its regular meeting Tuesday night.
The Caroline County Sheriffs Office says it has arrested a leading cocaine dealer. Jeffrey Goodall, 43, who lives in the Dawn area, was arrested during a search of his home yesterday.
Goodall was charged with three counts of distributing...
Virginia State Police apprehended a Bowling Green man who is wanted for attempted first-degree murder and other charges in Prince Georges County, Maryland.
Twenty-four-year-old Vance W. Brown was taken into custody without incident at...
MILFORD The Caroline County Board of Supervisors spent nearly three hours discussing issues related to the proposed 2011-12 budget during a work session this week.
A Ruther Glen man who works for the Spotsylvania County prosecutors office has filed to seek the office of Caroline County Commonwealths Attorney. John Bowers, 61, has filed to run as an independent.
The women of Secretariat came home to Caroline County for a weekend and then some.
Penny Chenery Tweedy, the owner of Secretariat, and her daughter, Kate Tweedy, who co-authored a book about the famous racehorse last year, visited Caroline to aid the developing Museum of the Virginia Horse.
Comcast says it will begin providing high-speed Internet and other services to people who live in some of the neighborhoods in western Caroline County.
Tom Coughlin, a senior vice president for the company, says Comcast will begin construction...
MILFORD - Remuda East, a residential behavioral treatment facility employing 73 people that provides care for women with eating disorders, will close March 31. The company's employees will remain on the payroll with full benefits through mid-May.
BOWLING GREEN - The head of the Caroline Recovery Community Center says he has been stopped twice in recent weeks by officers of the Caroline Sheriff's Office, and he contends he is...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved federal disaster assistance to help Caroline County and seven other local governments and the state to recover from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, state officials announced...
MILFORD A Doswell couple has lost an appeal to county planning officials in their effort to quell noise from concerts during the State Fair of Virginia.
RICHMOND Gov. Bob McDonnell has requested a federal disaster declaration to assist eight local governments and the state to recover from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, which caused heavy rain and flooding in Virginia on Sept. 8-9.
The 8-year-old autistic Caroline County boy who went missing in a park in Hanover County has been released from the hospital and reunited with his family.
Robert Wood Jr. was released from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center...
MILFORD - The Caroline County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to allocate more than $33,000 to repair flood damage to the Sparta Volunteer Fire Department station.
BOWLING GREEN Mark Mallin asked the Town Council to get behind a proposal to develop a playground in the downtown area, and it readily accepted the challenge. Council voted to appoint...
MILFORD - The Caroline County Board of Supervisors will consider revising a local ordinance to permit Maryland-based Walter Productions to hold multi-day music festivals on...
The Caroline County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved moving forward with creating a service district in the Caroline Pines subdivision at the boards regular meeting on Tuesday of last week.
A Caroline contractor who claims that Deborah James asked him to do work on her King George home and charge it to contracts he had through the Lake LandOr Property Owners Association told...
MILFORD The Caroline County Board of Supervisors has rejected a request by Timothy Thompson and Michelle Gillespie to allow special events to be held at Thompsons home on...
MILFORD - The Caroline County Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to set a public hearing on a proposal to exempt businesses with annual gross receipts of $150,000 or less from the countys business license...
Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford has received a $56,500 grant from the Virginia Land Conservation Fund that will enable it to acquire and conserve 17 acres of land that includes a state threatened plant species.
MILFORD - The first Caroline County Board of Supervisors meeting to be held after an earthquake, a hurricane and flooding was less uneventful than those natural disasters were for the county.
Gregory Shawn Bache, 37, was sentenced by Caroline Circuit Court Judge Joseph Ellis on Thursday of last week. He received 10 years in prison on each of six counts of rape and five counts of aggravated sexual battery
Two additional candidates who filed for election to the Caroline County Board of Supervisors have created a fourth contested race and also turned a two-way race into a three-way affair.
Hurricane Irene packed a powerful punch that clobbered several homes in the Portobago Bay subdivision. Several homes and a car were damaged by falling trees, and more trees were toppled in yards here and there.
Margaret Ransone of Westmoreland County crushed her opponents in the Republican primary for the 99th House of Delegates District on Tuesday to win her party
Ransone received 3,912 votes
Dean Sumner of Northumberland placed second with 1,341 votes (20 percent), and John Lampmann of...
LADYSMITH A Caroline County man was struck and killed by a pickup truck while he was riding a bicycle on Jefferson Davis Highway north of Ladysmith Thursday afternoon.
The victim was identified as Charles F. Roye, 59, who lived nearby...
By Tim Cox/Editor
SPARTA The U.S. Postal Service will conduct a study of nearly 3,700 post offices to determine which ones it may close in a cost-cutting move.
To people who knew him in Caroline County, Leo Dubois was a good soul, a man who worked hard, helped take care of his wife and family, and was sociable, engaging in friendly chit-chat.
MILFORD The Board of Supervisors was briefed on the status of four new wells that are in development to bolster the countys water system as well as short-term and long-term...
MILFORD The long-awaited application by Vulcan Materials Co. to mine sand and gravel from Black Marsh Farms will come before the Caroline County Board of Supervisors next week.
BOWLING GREEN The Town Council is moving to create an economic development authority that would help the town attract new business prospects and bolster its existing business base.
Caroline High School has a new athletic director: Jeremy Jack, who has been athletic director, head football coach and a teacher at Colonial Beach High School.
The Caroline County School Board appointed Jack to the post at its regular meeting on Monday of last week. Jack,...
By all accounts, David Jones was an outgoing teen who made friends easily. A relative newcomer to Caroline County, students at Caroline High School were taken by his urban background and gave him a nickname to go along with it.
MILFORD - The perfect storm hit Caroline Countys water system Memorial Day weekend, and now the Board of Supervisors has no choice but to jump into the issue of water.
As expected, the final legislative redistricting plan passed by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Bob McDonnell has produced a significant change for Caroline County.
An insurance service that rates local fire departments has given a higher, improved rating to Caroline County, which means that residents and businesses may benefit from lower insurance...
The hall at Wrights Chapel in Ladysmith was absolutely electric with excitement on Saturday as more than 100 community volunteers gathered for Carolines annual food drive, "Christmas in April".
MILFORD - The Caroline County Board of Supervisors endorsed two redistricting plans at its work session on Thursday of last week: one for five districts and another for six. A public hearing will be held on the two redistricting proposals at the board
The Caroline County Board of Supervisors discussed setting a new real estate tax rate for the countys next budget but took no action at its regular meeting on Tuesday night.
Kate Tweedy and Leeanne Ladin, the authors of "Secretariat: The Land, The Family, The Legend," will be at the Caroline County Visitor Center 6:30 p.m. Monday (March 28) to celebrate the birthday of the legendary racehorse.
The Caroline County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing March 16 on a request by Black Marsh Farm to allow sand and gravel mining by Vulcan Materials Co.
About 1,800 customers of Aqua Virginia in Caroline County will get a refund and see their water and sewer rates reduced as a the result of a ruling by the State Corporation Commission (SCC).
MILFORD - When Caroline High School held a media event to announce that the schools standout pitcher, Sean Pico, would attend the Naval Academy, principal Harper Donahoe praised the student-athlete....
MILFORD The Caroline High School boys basketball team has plenty of seniors on this years squad, and a few starters return, but the Cavaliers are short on height.
MILFORD - Senior Night at Caroline High School brought out a stellar effort by the Cavalier seniors as well as underclassmen, and Caroline defeated Culpeper 34-20 in the final game of the season for both teams.
The Caroline Cavaliers visited the Chancellor Chargers in a game that was not only wet and cold but also filled with mistakes by both teams. Chancellor made the most of the contest by capitalizing on the miscues made by Caroline deep in its own territory to win 41-7 Friday...
MILFORD - The King George Foxes, led by the strong arm of sophomore quarterback Corey Henderson, survived a second half surge by the Cavaliers to end up with a 26-19 victory to spoil Carolines homecoming Friday night.
SPOTSYLVANIA - It was a clash between two teams utilizing the same offense, the single wing: Courtland, the tenured team with over nine years experience, and Caroline, where the offense is only in its second year or use.
MILFORD - The dominance James Monroe High School has enjoyed over other football teams in the Battlefield District was put on display with a 55-0 victory over Caroline High School.
MILFORD - The Caroline Cavaliers put on a rushing exhibition while holding Spotsylvania to only a couple of scores to capture a 42-14 Battlefield District victory this week.
AYLETT King William quarterback Freeman McPhearson passed for 215 yards and five touchdowns and ran for another TD as his team dominated Caroline High School with a 54-15 victory.
The Cavaliers begin the season with an away game at Essex at 6 p.m. Monday. (The game originally was scheduled to be played Friday.) The team has its first home game Sept. 9 against Henrico.
The Caroline High School boys track team placed sixth and the girls, eighth, in the Caroline High School Invitational track meet on Friday of last week.
The annual meet featured 15 schools from northern Virginia to Brunswick County...
The Caroline High School baseball team just wanted to get on the field and play. Over the first two weeks of the season, the Cavaliers had games postponed four times because of unplayable field conditions due to rain. As...
MILFORD Amber Brown scarred three hits over five innings, and Courtney Didlake went 3-for-4 with four RBI to lead the Caroline High School Lady Cavaliers to a 15-0 thrashing of Henrico in Carolines opening game of the season on Monday.
Greg Trainum is no stranger to Caroline High School softball or the Battlefield District. The Lady Cavaliers first-year head coach has paid his dues as a junior varsity coach. He has coached just about every softball player...
MILFORD - Prospects Sports will offer a basketball camp featuring NBA trainer Damion Keyes, the personal training coach for Chicago Bulls guard James Johnson.
The event, sponsored by Richmond Cougars AAU Basketball, will be held 9 a.m.-1...
With the amount of firepower the Eastern View High School football team has on offense, opponents usually need a few breaks to go their way in order to have a chance at victory.
For Caroline, those breaks came before Friday night's game...
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