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Vol. 33, No. 51 | Richmond Suburban News | April 26, 2017
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Tomato Festival vendor registration fees increase
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ECHANICSVILLE — Vendor spaces are still available for the Hanover Tomato Festival. “We are searching for local vendors who make or sell unique tomato-related products, community-based businesses and organizations to make this year’s event one of the best in the event’s 39-
year history,” Marcie Durrer, recreation program director of Hanover County Parks and Recreation. Add-on options include additional booth spaces ($125 each), a tent installed at your booth ($200), table and chairs delivered to your booth space ($25), electrical hook-up ($75) and loading assistance, where event staff will shuttle see VENDOR, pg. 5
Fleming enters manslaughter plea in crash that killed 2 friends By Mark Bowes Richmond Times-Dispatch HANOVER — Moments after Nickolas Seth Fleming slammed his truck into a tree, killing two of his friends, several passers-by rushed to the scene along Cold Harbor Road and found Fleming trapped in the wreckage, hysterical and bleeding badly. “I don’t want to go to jail! I can’t go to jail,” three witnesses heard Fleming say as his friends, Dylan Ballard, 17, and Elliot Hinton, 22, lay dead inside the vehicle. One of the passers-by, a dentist, asked Fleming if he had been drinking. “Yeah, I’m wasted,” Fleming replied. The interior of Fleming’s 2001 extended-cab Dodge Ram pickup was littered with
FLEMING cans of Old Milwaukee and Busch beer, some of which had burst on impact. Police found a can of Old Milwaukee lodged under the vehicle’s brake pedal, and a cooler that apparently
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BALLARD was ejected from the truck was discovered alongside the road. Nearly a year after the fatal crash that seriously injured Fleming and three other occupants, the 19-year-old defen-
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HINTON dant stood before a Hanover County judge Thursday, April 20, to plead guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter see FLEMING, pg. 5