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Meeting his mountain Lars Bors-Koefoed always dreamed of taking on the famous Appalachian Trail. Earlier this year, he finally made that dream a reality
Supervisors: Vote shouldn’t be required to ban marijuana retail locations By Roslyn Ryan Editor
By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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omehow, Lars Bors-Koefoed always knew he would make it to Katahdin. For decades, the mountain, home to the northernmost point on the famed Appalachian Trail, remained a distant dream, always present but deferred due to all of the usual things: family and career obligations, timing, etc. An avid hiker since his teenage years, BorsKoefoed says he remembers reading about the Appalachian Trail while in college in the early 1970s, and can’t recall exactly why it called to him so strongly. What he does know for sure is that, for the next 45 years, the dream of someday completing the legendary 2,190-mile path was never far from his mind. “I just got it in my head that I was going to do it,” Bors-Koefoed said, “and it never went away.” And so it was that, on Feb. 22, 2021, BorsKoefoed found himself at Georgia’s Springer Mountain, at 68 years old, preparing to hike the Appalachian Trail. “From that moment on,” he remembers, “I was a happy guy.” see Appalachian Trail > 15 Contributed photo
Goochland resident Lars Bors-Koefoed, known to his fellow hikers by the moniker Vikingman, described the experience of hiking the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail earlier this year as one of the best experiences of his life. Despite the challenges, “It was magical,” he said.
If Goochland County wants marijuana retail stores it will ask for them — at least that’s the position county leaders hope law makers will allow them to adopt. On Oct. 5, county supervisors received an overview of Goochland’s proposed 2022 Legislative Agenda — essentially a summary of the Sept. 14 annual meeting involving the County’s legislative delegation, the Board of Supervisors, the School Board, Constitutional Officers, and representatives from the Electoral Board and Monacan Soil and Water Conservation District — and, of the four top priorities discussed, two related to the sale and distribution of marijuana. The specific issue supervisors have zeroed in on is whether marijuana retail operations should be allowed to open up shop in a locality provided that no local ordinance has been enacted to prevent them from doing so. Currently, according to state code, a locality must enact legislation to ban the operations from opening their doors. Goochland leaders, however, would like to see just the opposite: they would prefer marijuana retail stores be prohibited unless a locality approves them via a local see Supervisors > page 2