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SOL date confusion at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School

Posted on May 21, 2013 at 9:18 am

What do ancient Greece and Rome and the West African empire of Mali have to do with force, motion, energy and matter?  Well, nothing. So, when third grade students at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School sat down on Thursday to take the science Standards of Learning (SOL) test, they were surprised to learn that history was on the menu. Candace Wilkerson, TJES principal, and Luanne Unruh, assistant superintendent for instruction at

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  • Former Lion continues career as Trojan

    Posted on May 21, 2013 at 9:18 am

    Ending his high school career on the gridiron on a high note, Zacchaeus [Zach] Jackson led the Louisa County High School Lions to a memorable victory over undefeated Western Albemarle, spoiling the opponent’s perfect season last November 2012. In his final game, Jackson ran for 114 yards and three touchdowns, while he passed for 100 yards and two touchdowns. The dual-threat athlete officially signed his letter of intent with the

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  • At the hub of it all—the women behind the badges

    Posted on May 17, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    There is an old saying that “Behind every good man is a good woman,” and that holds true behind the scenes at the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office. Lori McLaughlin, Dawn Moore and Teresa Lowe are the women that keep things moving smoothly at the department. McLaughlin, who started out as a dispatcher, has been the records administrator since 1991, and Lowe is her part-time assistant.  Moore joined them as an

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  • Quarterly siren test for North Anna Power Station set for May 15

    Posted on May 9, 2013 at 1:47 pm

    State and local officials will test the early warning siren system around the North Anna Power Station Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at approximately 11:10 a.m.  A steady three-minute tone will be sounded by 68 sirens in Caroline, Hanover, Louisa and Spotsylvania counties.  The sirens are located within a 10-mile radius of the plant.   Siren tests take place quarterly on the third Wednesday of February, May, August and November.  The

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  • Block by block, the school’s rising

    Posted on May 2, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    Robert Moore, Louisa County Public Schools’ Clerk of the Works, talks about construction progress of the new Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.

    Revised from the May 2 print edition Construction of the approximately $11 million Thomas Jefferson Elementary School is moving right along. The building is gradually beginning to take shape as contractors work to complete the project on time. The new construction, which will replace the old building that was damaged by the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck  Mineral in August of 2011, is expected to be completed by June of

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  • Louisa water tanks still pose problems

    Posted on May 2, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    The Town of Louisa has received six notices of violation for exceeding the maximum contaminant levels (MCL) for disinfection by-products over the past four years. Among those, four violations were issued for exceeding the MCL for trihalomethanes (TTHM) and two for exceeding the MCL for haloacetic acides (HAA5). The town purchases treated drinking water from the  Louisa County Water Authority (LCWA) and redistributes water to approximately 600 residential and 160

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  • Dominion sets sights on new design

    Posted on May 2, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    Dominion Virginia Power officials select new nuclear reactor design for proposed Unit 3 at North Anna Nuclear Power Station at Lake Anna.

    Although Dominion Virginia Power has not decided whether it will build Unit 3 at North Anna Power Station, the utility company is continuing to move through the process as if it were. Dominion announced late last week that it has decided to use General Electric-Hitachi ESBWR technology for Unit 3 rather than the Mitsubishi product the company had originally chosen for the reactor. “We currently are the only company in

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  • Buzzed in school

    Posted on April 25, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut this past December set many school districts on edge, causing them to rethink the way they approach security. Louisa County Public Schools has had a policy of locking all exterior doors, except at the front entrance, where door monitors were posted to greet visitors and log them in. But after the incident in Connecticut, school officials decided to take a

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  • Louisa Chief of Police receives Eckenrode scholarship award

    Posted on April 25, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    Town of Louisa Police Chief Jessie L. Shupe graduated from the 32nd Session of the Professional Executive Leadership School (PELS) at the University of Richmond in March, where he received the Lex T. Eckenrode Scholarship Award during the closing graduation ceremony. “It was very inspiring and it was a sense of encouragement to receive the award, because of this type of training and unique curriculum,” Shupe said. The PELS program

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