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Volume 59, Number 38 • September 26, 2013
Mother still seeking justice
A beautiful day for a ride
Christina Maxwell says she won’t stop looking for the driver who struck and killed her son three years ago By Roslyn Ryan Editor
Photo by Ken Odor
A wagon pulled by a tractor helps visitors get around the wide-ranging Field Day of the Past grounds last Friday. For more photos from the annual Field Day event, see page 8.
Three years after her son Billy was killed, Goochland resident Christina Maxwell still finds reminders of him everywhere. Sitting in her kitchen, Maxwell fishes a small plastic pellet — the kind used in the airsoft guns Billy and his friends loved to play with in the backyard — out of a crack in the table. This pellet will be see Mother > page 2
Photo by Roslyn Ryan
After her son Billy was killed in a hit and run in 2010, Christina Maxwell had his portrait etched on her forearm. As of the third anniversary of his death last week, the case had still not been solved.
Artist looks for residents’ input on new painting project Series of five paintings will depict village life in Goochland County
laboratively, she means it. In fact, Rosner is hoping to involve the entire county in her next project, a series of When Goochland artist Patti paintings depicting what village life Rosner says she likes to work col- looked like years ago in each of the By Roslyn Ryan Editor
county’s five districts. forever,� said Rosner. “It will be unique to have an Once the project is complete, it exhibit of this nature as some of will be given to the County and our villages look the same as they see Project > page 4 did decades ago, and some are gone
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