By james art 
As a retired teacher and resident of Hanover County with grandchildren in the school system, the comments of State Senator Stella Pekarski in Hanover’s Supervisors are opposed to the bill to require selected school advice, January 24, are deeply concerned. Her comments are full of assumptions. She accepts that the appointed member of the school council is more responsible to the representative who appointed them than the children and teachers who represent them. She suggests that the elected representative would do better work. She stated that the Hanover referendum has chosen members of the school council to fail, “because people with money are trying to control the process.”
Perhaps the appointed members of the Hanover School Board have the best interest in students, teachers and staff by heart. Perhaps their time is dedicated to the support of public schools in Hanover County. Perhaps their time is dedicated to the work to meet the needs of schools in Hanover, as opposed to conducting election campaigns. The voters in Hanover may be pleased with the work of the appointed members of the school council and maybe that is why the referendum failed.
Hanover County Public Schools may have a chosen school board in the future. The hope is that it will continue the good work that is done.
From the archives: A look back at the Richmond region’s railway line
This January 1958, the image showed Main Street in the city center at a time when there was a discussion on the relocation of all passenger trains to Broad Street. Main Street, which opened in 1901, eventually closed in 1975, but again opened in 2003. The future is doubtful about Main St. Station, built on Century Seoboard, C&O Study possible displacement of passenger trains to Broad St.
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On December 9, 1947, the freedom train stopped in Richmond on Avenue Alan and West Number of Street. People were waiting in blocks, long lines to tour the exhibits of historical artifacts, which include the original constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Doctrine of Truman and was about rights. The freedom train to tour the country between 1947 and 1949 is the first train to visit each of the 48ths (Alaska and Hawaii have not yet received statehood).
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On May 25, 1946, a train entered the Station Street Station in Richmond. That afternoon marked the end of a crippling two-day national railway stroke, which had stuck passengers and the freight companies managed to buy some of the durable foods as well as tropical fish. President Harry Truman threatens an army absorption of railway facilities if the striking trains and engineers do not return to work.
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In May 1978, this Caboose train, traveling by truck on West Broad Street in Richmond, headed for the old Clover Room restaurant, which the new owner John Darkos reconstructed at Stanley Stegmeyer’s Hodgeypodge restaurant. Its eclectic decor had to include two Kabuos, which would accommodate 16 evenings each.
Wallace Clark
In June 1970, this Seaboard Coast Line railway station on Commerce Street in St. Petersburg was closed. Three years later, the Seoboard airline and the Atlantic Railways have merged, and passenger traffic from the location on the street on the shopping street is consolidated in what was in the northern St. Petersburg in the Atlantic coast in Etrick. A dozen trains served the city every day at this time.
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In August 1979, the Chesapike and Ohio railway was preparing to close the Sabota landfill station in Guchland. The station hosted its first passenger train in 1881 and its last in 1957; He limped until 1979, processing strange jobs. CSX dismantled the building in 1993
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In September 1976, the American freedom train – toured the country as part of the two -year celebration – stopped in Richmond for an hour on the way to Newport News. He was planned to return to Richmond about a week later in early October for his full six-day stay. The train was included around a dozen cars carrying artifacts of American history, including the original purchase of Louisiana, Judy Garland’s dress of Oz’s Wizard, George Washington’s copy of the Constitution and Martin Luther King Jr.
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This January 1957 the image showed a locomotive on the Atlantic coast, moving along Washington Street in St. Petersburg, right next to a car. The paths on the street were laid during the Civil War, and the railway was given the city’s permission to continue using them. The Atlantic coast removed one track in the mid-1950s, but continued to use the other. He has since been removed.
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In May 1948, a passenger train for a diesel power supply of Seoboard Air Line, which moved south. The main line of the seashore at that time passed from Richmond to Miami. Merging in 1967 renamed the company as a Seaboard Coast Line railway, and in 1971 AMtrak took over its passenger operations.
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In May 1939, the end of the edges could be seen on a six -week strike, which included over 450,000 coal miners and caused a shortage of coal, which affected many industries. Here, coal cabin cabin cabinets stood ready in Richmond Yards, expecting the signal for the resumption of operations. Thousands like these filled train yards in the soft coal areas of Appalachi.
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This June 1946, the image showed the train depot at the Richmond Richmond Army depot in Belwood in Chesterfield County. The army bought the land from the Belwood family in 1941 and activated the post next year. It was used strongly during World War II – more than 800 railway vehicles will go through some days.
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In March 1930, the new luxury train of Chesapike and Ohio, the athlete, stopped at the Main Street Station in Richmond at the last match of an exhibition tour before service, starting on a new route from Norfolk to Detroit and Cleveland. On his day of exposure to Richmond, the train was visited by about 10,000 people, including governor John Pollard, Lieutenant James Price, Mayor J. Fulmer Bright and many other local and state dignitaries.
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In November 1940, Richmond News leader published a photo essay entitled “Work … on the railway line”, which included workers on the Chesapeake & Ohio railway line. This image shows that motor vehicles are lifted by the tracks at the end of the day, while the cook in the kitchen car in the background signals that it is dinner.
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This October 1962 the image showed the sellers of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, posing in front of a train. Wearing derbies, fantastic vests while wearing canes, they were responsible for the distribution of schedules and brochures, as well as for promoting the comfort and convenience of railway travel to the public.
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10-12-1976 (Cutline): Marty Cummings, Jean Gymblin, Gloria Boneville Add a shine to the car for the dining. The trace of freedom train is expensive but interesting
Bill Lane
3/9/1946: Winston Churchill steps from the train to Williammsburg and gives “ye ole” V “for a sign of victory. Behind him are General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. Churchill.
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Locomotives are placed on the tracks of the triple railway crossing at the bottom of Shockoe, Richmond, Virginia October 1958.
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Triple passing in October 1958
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