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Bear Island Paper seeks bankruptcy
By GREG GLASSNER

Ashland's Bear Island Paper Company and its parent company, White Birch Paper Co., filed last week for bankruptcy protection, the apparent victim of declining newspaper size and circulation, tight capital, some bad guesses on interest rates and the strong Canadian dollar.
Based in Greenwich, Conn., White Birch is the second largest newsprint manufacturer in North America. In addition to Bear Island, it operates three larger plants in Canada.
Company officials were quick to assert that the bankruptcy proceedings would not interrupt production at Bear Island, which employs 190 people and is one of Hanover County's five biggest taxpayers.
Constructed in 1979, Bear....


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Bear Island Paper seeks bankruptcy
3/4/2010 9:58:47 AM
Ashland's Bear Island Paper Company and its parent company, White Birch Paper Co., filed last week for bankruptcy protection, the apparent victim of declining newspaper size and circulation, tight capital, some bad guesses on interest rates and the strong Canadian dollar.
Based...

ODAC play earns R-MC bid to NCAA
3/4/2010 9:48:38 AM

The Randolph-Macon College men's basketball was a team on a mission when it went to the Old Dominion Athletic Conference basketball tournament in Salem last week.
The Yellow Jackets wanted to either win the tournament and receive the ODAC's automatic bid to the NCAA D3 tournament...

Mines-Derricott takes Hanover Idol title
2/25/2010 4:18:29 PM
Snowfall may have delayed the biennial Hanover Idols competition by a few weeks, but the contestants finally had an opportunity to show off their singing talent last weekend at the Hanover Arts & Activities Center.
Two separate shows were held Feb. 21. First, 12 youths...

LOCAL NEWS


Town Council continues East Ashland hearing
3/4/2010 10:00:51 AM
The proposal for the East Ashland development may be moving in the right direction, according to members of Town Council, but they feel it still needs some more work.
Tuesday night, the Ashland Town Council voted 5-0 to continue its public hearing on the matter to its April...

More school budget cuts expected
3/4/2010 9:53:59 AM
Hanover County Public Schools officials are estimating that the school division's 2010-11 budget will face additional cuts in the range of $4-6 million after the General Assembly finalizes the state budget.
At the Feb. 24 Board of Supervisors meeting, Superintendent Dr. Stewart...

Crime up 1.8 percent in Ashland
2/25/2010 4:31:43 PM
2009 saw a slight rise in crime in the Town of Ashland compared to 2008, primarily due to increases in shoplifting and thefts from unlocked vehicles, according to the Ashland Police Department's 2009 Annual Report.
APD Chief Doug Goodman provided a summary of the report to...

East Ashland sails through County P.C.
2/25/2010 4:27:45 PM
The proposed East Ashland mixed-use development has passed through the Hanover County Planning Commission with a recommendation for approval.
The overall proposal spans land in both Hanover County and the Town of Ashland. The County Planning Commission's Feb. 18 meeting focused...


AREA NEWS


Effects of recession could linger locally
3/4/2010 10:01:42 AM

The impact of the current economic downturn may have been relatively slow to reach Hanover County, but it is here and the effects will be felt for some time to come, according to Joseph P. Casey, Hanover's deputy county administrator for finance and administration.
"We are...

Humane Society helps launch Pearson's Corner Elementary's reading program
2/25/2010 4:37:16 PM
Representatives of the Hanover Humane Society went to Pearson's Corner Elementary School recently to conduct a presentation for the children and kick-off a school reading campaign.
To kick off the event, the school organized several assemblies  where the children met Chip,...

Ashland woman adopted two children
2/25/2010 4:23:12 PM
Kathy Eby said that during the 70s it was very hard for a single woman to adopt.
"Married couples got first choice when it came to adopting babies," Eby said. "I really wanted to adopt an infant and I knew it would be hard at the age of 46 years old and still single."
This...


SPORTS


Hanover athletes win four state track titles
3/4/2010 10:02:55 AM
The Group AAA state indoor track meet was last weekend, and three Hanover County student athletes and one relay team brought back event titles.
It was no surprise that Patrick Henry's Lizzie Powell and Lee-Davis' Montasia Golden won events. The biggest surprise of the meet...

H-P Weekly Sports calendar 3-4-10
3/4/2010 9:57:49 AM

March 4

Baseball
R-MC at Methodist, 6 p.m.

Men's Tennis
Lynchburg at R-MC, 3 p.m.


R-MC to play in the NCAA Tournament
3/1/2010 4:10:28 PM

For the 18th time in school history, the Randolph-Macon men's basketball team has earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament. 

The Yellow Jackets, who will enter the tournament with a 22-6 record, will travel to Albright College in Reading,...

County athletes 'step up' at regional meet
2/26/2010 11:53:54 AM
Golden, Powell, Lee-Davis girls, Atlee boys capture titles
It's becoming old hat in the Richmond area when you go to a girls' track meet that if Montasia Golden and Lizzie Powell are competing, they are going to be center stage.
At...

 



 


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