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Vol. 33, No. 22 | Richmond Suburban News | October 5, 2016
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Auditorium renovations discussed HCSB workshop includes talks about projects at Lee-Davis, Patrick Henry By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local ASHLAND — In a Hanover County School Board workshop held earlier last month at The Crossings in Glen Allen, a majority of members reached consensus on two major projects, both of which have
been on the planning agenda for years. Renovation projects at Lee-Davis High School and Patrick Henry High School auditoriums will move forward through the normal CIP procedure in the 2018 budget process. Although no formal action was taken, the projects have the support of most
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board members, and one described it as an approval of the concept. Chairman John Axselle, Beaverdam District, was not as distinct on the action taken at the annual workshop where members set priorities, devise plans, and see AUDITORIUM, pg. 5
“We haven’t approved anything, but I hope we will and it makes it through the process. . . . This has to go to the [Hanover County] Board of Supervisors and everything else.� JOHN AXSELLE Hanover County School Board chairman
Oct. 17 is deadline to register Friends help celebrate No. 90 to vote in General Election By Melody Kinser Managing Editor HANOVER — Monday, Oct. 17, is the deadline to register or make changes to your voter registration in time for the Nov. 8 General Election. The Hanover County General Registrar and Electoral Board remind you to check your voter registration to make sure it is correct. “All Hanover County voters should have received their Voter Notification alerting to them our moving to the 1st Congressional District from the 7th,� General Registrar Teresa “Teri� Smithson said. “This has given the voters a chance to check where they will vote in
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November.� Absentee voting started on Friday, Sept. 23, and as of Tuesday, Sept. 27, Smithson said her office had “mailed out 1,473 ballots and 67 voters have cast their ballot in person in our office. During the last Presidential Election we had 2,500 vote by mail and another 2,500 vote
in person.� “We are training and staffing the polling
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Friends of Tommy Tucker, left, recently joined with him in celebrating his 90th birthday.
see REGISTER, pg. 7
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