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Vol. 3 No. 7 | Richmond Suburban News | August 30, 2017
Eclipse gets badge for Scouts
Continuing path of success is goal
Nick Liberante for The Local
Scout Master Brad Bateman, back left, and members of his Troop 544 from Mechanicsville don eye protection to look at the start of the eclipse. Troop 544 and about 300 others were on the campus of RandolphMacon College to watch the eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21. Scouts who participated received an eclipse patch. For more on the R-MC event, turn to page 2.
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Public input sought on deer hunting revisions By Jim Ridolphi for The Hanover Local HANOVER – The Hanover Board of Supervisors is considering a change to its current policy regarding rifles and deer hunting, a combination currently prohibited in the county. Vice chair Sean Davis, Henry District, told fellow members that amendments to the current code originated in the Community Development Committee. The changes would allow the hunting of deer with rifles with calibers of more than .23, one of several qualifiers contained in the proposed
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changes. Deputy County Administrator Frank Harksen explained the new ordinance would require hunters maintain unloaded weapons while on the ground, and all shots must be taken from a tree stand. “The current code limits rifle hunting of deer to the use of muzzle loading rifles during muzzle loaded season as well as general firearm season,” Harksen said. “The rifle hunting of other game is allowed.” see DEER, pg. 5
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ASHLAND – The successes that Hanover County Public Schools enjoyed last year stemmed from what Dr. Michael Gill, superintendent, plans to repeat when students return for the 2017-2018 term on Tuesday. “This time last year we began with two major themes that were going to guide the school division,” Gill said. Those themes were relevance and equity. “As the school year progressed, a natural theme started to emerge and that was the theme of innovation. So those three ideas became what all of our work in the school division centered around.” In the fall of 2016, the school district adopted its new
six-year long-range plan, which Gill said is a “document that we are extremely proud of.” The school system, he said, has “objectives, specific strategies, and a handful of goals that we want to accomplish during the course of the sixyear plan.” He said it is very detailed, but it “also can really be described as advancing the ideas of relevance, equity and innovation.” He then fast forwards to the upcoming school year. “I’ve been asked by several people ‘What’s going to be the next big thing?’ My response is relevance, equity and innovation, which is ironic in some ways because repeating the same ideas does not seem very innovative.” Gill said he, his administrative staff and the Hanover County School Board do know
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that whether it’s in the business world or the education world those who have attained success don’t change the horse midstream. “They have a commitment to the ideas, the mission of the organization.” “So the very nature of relevance in innovation means that we constantly have to analyze what we are doing in order to prepare students in the best manner possible.” The work that was accomplished last year was “fantastic.” “Relevance is the idea that students see and understand a connection between what they’re being taught in a classsee SUCCESS pg. 7