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Volume 57, Number 31 • August 11, 2011
Grubbs pleads guilty By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Speaking in a barely audible voice, former Goochland Treasurer Brenda S. Grubbs pled guilty to all 20 charges against her at her Aug. 9 arraignment in Goochland Circuit Court. Arrested on Feb 2. of this year and charged with embezzling county funds and money laundering, Grubbs will be sentenced Dec. 13. Her defense attorney, James Maloney, described
Grubbs as suffering from physical and mental ailments that made her easy prey for an online predator, who persuaded Grubbs to wire money to an email address in Nigeria. “She exhausted her own funds first,” said Maloney. Special Prosecutor Jeffrey Haislip did not object to Grubbs remaining free on bond pending sentencing. He put the total amount Grubbs embezzled from the county penalty of 410 years on the at about $185,000. Grubbs faces a maximum charges.
Supervisors hear Verizon broadband presentation County customers express their dissatisfaction By Jim Fields jfields@mechlocal.com
Verizon Wireless representatives attended the afternoon session of the Goochland Board of Supervisors meeting last Tuesday and got an
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earful of what county citizens think about the company’s service. Mark Funka, Director of RF Design and System Performance for the Washington, Baltimore and Virginia Market, spoke to the supervisors to explain problems concerning the deterioration of Verizon Service caused by a corrupted configuration in their equipment. When he finished and Chairman William Quarles Jr.
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Kinloch resident Robert H. Minnick has decided to run for the Board of Supervisors in District 4.
Minnick to challenge Butler in District 4 BOS race Service District (TCSD) debt situation but he’s not sure the county knows how to deal with it. Kinloch resident Robert H. So Minnick, 53, a retired Minnick knows the county has Army Lt. Colonel and owner of a problem with the Tuckahoe Manus Medical, LLC. has decided By Ken Odor jodor@goochland.com
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to offer his help, throwing his hat into the ring as an independent candidate for the District 4 Board of Supervisors seat, see Minnick > page 4