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Volume 57, Number 36 • September 9, 2010
Animal neglect case continued have been euthanized at the foundation. That charge was reduced to a Class IV misdemeanor before being dismissed when it was determined that the one-year statute of limitations had run out. That left one Class IV misdemeanor charge outstanding. Thirteen new complaints were filed in early April. At the May 24 court date a continuance was granted the complainants after Judge Carpenter accepted Arlington attorney Heidi Meinzer as their representative. “I understand the decision,” said Arlington attorney Heidi Meinzer, who had been allowed by Judge Carpenter to represent the complainants at the July 12 hearing, when she dropped five of the charges and requested a continuance of the trial date until August 2, a request with which defense attorney Darvin Satterwhite concurred. But when trial day arrived, Judge Carpenter
Private prosecutor will not be allowed in Pet Rescue Foundation Case By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Photo by Ken Odor
Goochland artist Gary Garbett with a piece from his 1992 exhibition “Route 66 Revisited.” A portrait of Marilyn Monroe adorns the hood of a ’56 Ford.
Local artist readies thesis exhibit By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
“I’m an old guy with a young heart,” is how Goochland artist Gary Garbett chooses to describes himself. Well, not so old. He’s just 50, but he took a couple decades off from
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school to raise a family before finishing his education. A student at VCU from 1983 to 1986, he left school to work full-time in advertising as a graphic designer. “Struggling artist – there’s some real truth to that,” he remarked during an interview last week at his studio at his Goochland home.
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In 2006 he went back to school. In 2008 he received a Career Studies Certificate in Photography from J. Sargeant Reynolds and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Study from Virginia Commonwealth University. While still working full-time at
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After an August 23 hearing, Judge Roger L. Morton, General District Court judge for Culpeper, Madison and Fluvanna counties, sitting in for Judge Edward Carpenter, issued a ruling that a private prosecutor will not be allowed in the trial of Annette Thompson on nine counts of inadequate animal care. Thompson operates the Pet Rescue Foundation in Hadensville. The charges against her stem from an investigation by an ad hoc group of animal welfare advocates. That effort led to two original charges being filed against Thompson on February 27, one a Class I misdemeanor charge in the death of a horse that was later determined to
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