Daily Press - Middle Peninsula News

`Gift' of a Gloucester house comes with legal headaches

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:13:00 -0400

On July 8, Marcella Zdyb paid $1 for a four-bedroom, 3,700-square-foot home with six distinctive second-story gables on 13 acres in north Gloucester.

Few local supervisors plan to attend national meeting

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:36:00 -0400

With county budgets tightening, travel by supervisors and staff to the National Association of Counties convention July 24-28 in Nashville, Tenn., is on hiatus.

Gloucester home yields 55 marijuana plants

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:34:00 -0400

A house in the woods in the Glenns area proved to be doubling as a greenhouse when authorities discovered 55 marijuana plants being grown inside.

Payday lending: State offers workers small loan program

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:11:00 -0400

State workers facing economic hardships can now take out $500 loans from the state in a new effort designed to further curb payday lending in Virginia.

Payday lending: state offers workers small loan program

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:55:00 -0400

State workers facing economic hardships can now take out $500 loans from the state in a new effort designed to further curb payday lending in Virginia.

Father held on neglect charges in his son's drowning in Gloucester

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:24:00 -0400

GLOUCESTER — The father of a 3-year-old boy who drowned at Gloucester Point Beach on July 4 has been jailed on felony child neglect charges.

Gloucester family's septic deal flushed

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Cyndi Rhoades thought she had an imminent deal to move with her husband and three children into their trailer on Maundys Creek Road in Guinea.

Eyewitness to boy's drowning says the water quietly took him

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:42:00 -0400

An eyewitness to a 3-year-old boy's drowning at Gloucester Point Beach on July 4 said that it looked like the water just quietly took him.

Drowning victim identified as Jarratt, Va., boy

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:19:00 -0400

A boy who drowned on Saturday in the York River at Gloucester Point Beach has been identified as Brian Flores, of Jarratt, Va., a small town near Emporia in the southeast part of the state.

Woodard: Moratorium sends 'negative message'

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Supervisor Gregory Woodard rebuked his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors for sending a "negative message" to the black community after they imposed a moratorium on granting tax exemptions to nonprofit organizations.