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Volume 62, Number 28 • July 13, 2017

Grocery delivery now available for some county residents. See page 2

BOS grants rezoning for driving range Drive Shack plan features three-story facility with golf, dining and conference space By Roslyn Ryan Editor

Golf devotees have a brand new reason to love Goochland. County supervisors voted unanimously on July 5 to approve the rezoning of 13 acres for the construction of a three-story, 60,000 square-foot driving range at the intersection of Route 288 and Interstate 64. The $25 million project, proposed by the New York-based company Drive Shack, will feature 90 individual driving range suites from which golfsee Golf > 4 Photo by Roslyn Ryan

Volunteer Donnie McCullough chats with a group of children taking part in his weekly LEGO Club at the Goochland Library. The program has its roots in an activity McCullough started with his children’s home schooling group.

Block party By Roslyn Ryan Editor

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f you’re looking for a surefire way to get a gaggle of children’s attention, there are certainly worse ways to do it than upending a large tub

of LEGO blocks into the middle of the floor and telling them to dive in. For Donnie McCullough, in fact, it’s a formula that’s been working quite nicely every Wednesday for the last six weeks. McCullough, a chemical engineer by training and the mastermind behind the

Library’s weekly LEGO Club adds fun twist to science, engineering lessons

Charge amended for woman in attempted capital murder case By Roslyn Ryan Editor

LEGO Club held every Wednesday at the Goochland Library said he first came up with the idea as a way to engage his own children as a part of their homeschooling program. “I played with LEGO’s as a kid, so I

A Tennessee woman facing attempted capital murder has had that charge amended thanks at least in part to the State Trooper she and her husband stood accused of firing upon during a high speed chase in Goochland last year. On the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 15, 2016,

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