Friday, Sept. 25
Home sales in the Historic Triangle slowed last month, but were still ahead of the rest of the state, where rising mortgage rates pushed statewide sales down, the state Realtors’ group reported Thursday.
Thursday, Sept. 24
Publicity about the Williamsburg-area mother arrested for letting her 5-year-old walk alone to a Ford’s Colony pond re-energized a national conversation about parental rights, child safety, and overzealous prosecution.
Wednesday, Sept. 23
Dear Santa, here’s James City County’s wish list for our local legislators:
Assure the county’s water supplies
Allow the county to cap real estate assessment hikes, to ease sticker shock when property values are rising rapidly
State payments toward veteran tax exemptions that are rising rapidly, to $7 million this year
Understand what it will cost local taxpayers if county and school employees are allowed to unionize
Tuesday, Sept. 22
Less than a week into early voting, advocates on both sides of the proposed constitutional referendum on abortion rights have raised more than $3 million to make their case to voters, according to the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project.
Monday, Sept. 21
James City County lost seven of its Flock license plate surveillance cameras to vandalism over the summer, Chief Mark Jamison said.
