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INSIDE: Got a four-legged friend? First-ever Goochland County Pet Expo set for May 31. > page 5 Volume 60, Number 19 • May 15, 2014

County will lease former jail building Historical Society plans to use 1820s era property for education, exhibits By Roslyn Ryan Editor

Making sense of scents Resident’s invention could mean new hope for those without ability to smell

magine, for a moment, if you suddenly lost your sense of smell. What would it be like if you could no longer detect the scent of spring flowers or perfume or the aroma of soup simmering on the stove? Goochland resident Dr. Richard Costanzo has never experienced this kind of loss — called anosmia in medical parlance — but his decades of research on the way we use our sense of smell could soon make a world of difference to those who have.

The Goochland County Historical Society is headed to jail. Well, sort of. The Goochland County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously during its meeting on May 6 to approve the lease of the county’s historic former jail building to the historical society. According to a lease agreement presented during the meeting by county administrator Rebecca Dickson, the historical society intends to use the 2,400-square-foot space for historical programs, tours and exhibits. The building, which is now used primarily for storage and is not open to the public, is thought to have been constructed in the 1820s. According to historical society president Phyllis Silber, the organization has been eyeing the old jail, located in the courthouse area, for years but was unable to secure the

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Photo by Roslyn Ryan

Professor Richard Costanzo is shown in his laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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