After two years, seven continuances and three special prosecutors, a felony embezzlement charge against Williamsburg Planning Commission Chairman Demetrios Florakis was dropped in Williamsburg/James City County Circuit Court on Friday. The charge was nolle prossed meaning prosecutors agree not...
On March 31, The Williamsburg Inn Lawn Bowling Club celebrated opening its 50th and, technically, final season. The sport will likely go on, somewhere, but it won't be behind Williamsburg Inn. The longstanding club is searching for a new place to call home because its green, the only regulation...
The 12th Ali's Run 5K Run/Walk will be Saturday at William and Mary Law School.The race benefits Be the Match and is in memory of Ali Kaplan, who passed away at age 12 from a very rare bone marrow disease.Ali was a straight-A student at Clara Byrd Baker and James Blair, played recreation league...
The Hornsby Middle baseball team is 6-1 and 5-0 in district and is currently riding a five-game win streak including a 9-1 victory over Tabb March 31. Hornsby's Michael Labella pitched five innings of one-hit ball and was 4-for-4 at the plate in the win. Labella scored three runs and had 3 RBIs...
Through the years there are always one or two women's distance runners at a time who excel for the William and Mary women's track team. Historically it was names like Janice Brown and Marcie Homan at the top. In more recent years it was Elaina Balouris and Emily Stites, all four multiple All-Americans....
The teaser trailer for "Sherwood Horror" was made with the help of an A-list crew from around the world
For those with fitness aspirations, walking is a good way to start
The evening's main event was Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A Minor
The group specializes in music written for the baryton, a string instrument rarely played in modern times
I want Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Party nominee for president, in part, because she is a Democrat. It is jarring to see Bernie Sanders identified as "Sen. Sanders (I-Vermont)". Part of the job of a president is to be leader of his or her political party. It is not the most important part...
This is outrageous that the vote on the financing of the James Blair Project has been moved to April 12, before the joint meeting that was to take place April 22, between the School Board, the Board of Supervisors and City Council. The voting on the funding was to occur in May. ( Will that useless...
Please vote for Elaine McBeth for Williamsburg City Council. The enthusiasm for Elaine McBeth being a member of the City Council comes from first hand experience of knowing what she is capable of doing. During the years I worked with her on the Planning Commission, I found her to be knowledgeable,...
Why don't each of us give just $1 dedicated to every family of the armed forces, police and other first responders that are killed or wounded? The money should be dedicated to these folks who save your country, state, county and city. That would be the least we should and could easily do for the...
West Virginia looks perfect for Donald Trump: a struggling working-class state filled with the types of voters who have backed him elsewhere and could deliver one of his biggest victories.But a sweep there might not matter. That's because as many as 34 delegates - the entire contingent - may be...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Friday the nation's highest court needs more diversity of personal backgrounds and professional experience, speaking as a vacancy has refocused attention on the court's makeup. During a talk at Brooklyn Law School, Sotomayor didn't mention the nomination...
Police said Friday that a homeless 17-year-old had been arrested and will be charged with murder in the death of a University of Texas dance major in the heart of the bustling campus — a killing that has unnerved one of the country's best-known schools. Meechaiel Criner wasn't believed to be a...
A former Vanderbilt football player has been found guilty of raping an unconscious student in a dorm. It took less than three hours for the jury of nine men and three women to find Cory Batey guilty of aggravated rape, two counts of attempted aggravated rape, facilitation of aggravated rape and...
Compromising The genius of our country's form of government is that people with differing views gather to discuss problems with the goal of finding a solution that's best for the needs of the country. The ability to compromise is "compromised" when we sink to name-calling Presidential politics ...
Open classrooms The real problem with the new James Blair School has never been discussed. Its design will be an open classroom design, a scheme that was wildly popular in the 70s, but discarded when educators found that open classrooms with no walls simply did not work in an educational setting....
Gas prices Yes, I'd like to know why, within four days, gas went up, all over 20 cents a gallon. That's ridiculous! And why don't these officials, who we nominated or elected and put in office, do something about people's yards that have trash and some look like a used junk yard, especially one...
Time for tests To pass the CDL, I would go online for the free practice tests for truck driving and for bus driving. You are only allowed to take the test three times at the DMV; then you have to take a week-long class to be able to take the test again. If you fail, study the answers of the failed...