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Volume 58, Number 4 • January 26, 2012

Planning commissioners asked to resign By Jim Fields jfields@mechlocal.com

The Goochland County Board of Supervisors has requested the resignations of all 10 members of the county planning commission. In a letter sent via email and regular mail dated Jan. 23, 2012, the supervisors requested each member of the

planning commission resign and submit a letter of resignation to county administrator Rebecca T. Dickson no later than Feb. 3, 2012, effective April 1, 2012. The letter says: “The Board of Supervisors is requesting the resignation of all Planning Commission see Planning Commission > page 8

School Board holds budget conversation by holding its first ever interactive budget work session. “We believe this is the first time The Goochland School Board anything like this has happened In opened up its budget process last week Goochland County,” said board chair Beth Hardy. “This is an experiment.” Interested citizens could speak without signing up before hand and, when possible, got immediate feedback from the board and the superintendent. Each speaker was allotted a maximum time of five minutes for their comments and feedback from board members and the superintendent. Hardy said the plan was for the budget conversation to go know more than two hours. The new format saw about a dozen Photo by Ken Odor people take the opportunity to speak, By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com

Photo by Ken Odor

Ned S. Creasey, now in his second term as District 3 supervisor, leads the new board as chairman. He’s a long time member of Company 5 Fire and Rescue Squad and a staunch supporter of the county’s public safety agencies.

Quiet man leads supervisors By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com

In his characteristic quiet voice, new board of supervisors chairman Ned Creasey last Friday described the life journey that brought him to leadership in Goochland after an historic local election.

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Born 68 years ago in Maryland, he grew up with his mom and dad and one sister in McDonough County in Illinois, about 90 miles west of Peoria. It was no Chicago. “It’s a little different down state,” he recalls. His parents ran a short order restaurant and Creasey learned the value

Obituaries Opinion Sports TV Listings

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of work helping out there. After high school Creasey went straight into the Navy for three years. “I wanted to be a Seabee but I made the mistake of letting them know I knew Morse code.” He ended up as a communications see Creasey > page 3

Dean Young speaks at last week’s school board meeting.

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Cadets compete in limited meet

Planning Commission delays action

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