The Chesterfield Daily

A former Henrico County police officer and his fiancee, a former Henrico County teacher, have been sentenced to decades in prison after being convicted of abusing two young boys over multiple years, with the former teacher receiving more than 130 years and the former officer receiving 20 years following a guilty plea. A grandmother who helped get the boys to safety noted that school counselors had filed reports over the years that did not lead to intervention, a gap she says allowed the abuse to continue. August 4 is primary election day in Chesterfield County, with races for U.S. House, U.S.

A Chesterfield family reunited this week with the firefighters and nurses who saved their baby, born at one pound one ounce in a parking lot at 24 weeks and five days, after 132 days in the NICU at Johnston-Willis Hospital. Students at the Goddard School in Midlothian wrapped their fourth annual Junior Maker's Market, raising a thousand dollars for Connor's Heroes, a nonprofit supporting families of children living with cancer. Also in the county, Chesterfield Parks is planning a new boat launch at Falling Creek on the James River, funded by Dominion Energy as part of its coal ash cleanup at t

Richmond issued a formal violation notice to Aqua Clean Environmental, a pretreatment company on Hospital Street, for improperly discharging processed wastewater into the city's system, a case rooted in leachate from Chesterfield's Shoosmith Landfill, which had its county permit suspended in 2024 after inspectors found bypassed treatment equipment and falsified records. The Virginia DEQ separately issued a notice of violation in February after inspectors spotted dark liquid appearing to be leachate flowing toward Swift Creek and Piney Branch, waterways that connect to the Appomattox River and

Wednesday evening brought two separate emergencies to Chesterfield County: a maroon sedan crashed into a convenience store on Robious Road around six-fifteen, injuring a teenager, and roughly two hours later firefighters battled a house fire on Brandywine Avenue that displaced four adults with no injuries reported. On Thursday afternoon, Chesterfield County police closed Beach Road near Pocahontas State Park with armed officers on scene, though the department has not released any statement about what they were investigating.

Chesterfield County faced an Excessive Heat Watch over the Fourth of July weekend with heat indexes forecast between 100 and 110 degrees, forcing the cancellation of the county's July Fourth celebration at the Fairgrounds, which had drawn an expected 12,000 attendees. On the legal front, contractor Branscome Operating LLC has filed three lawsuits against the county in less than a year, covering disputes on Iron Bridge Road, Winterpock Road, and West Hundred Road, with total claims approaching twenty million dollars. A jury trial in the Iron Bridge case has been set for September 2027, and the

Chesterfield County officers Jacob Clark and Jacob Wells, critically injured in a shooting on May 31, have both been discharged from VCU Medical Center and are recovering at home, with community fundraising topping 60,000 dollars and a golf tournament planned for August to support their rehabilitation. The Richmond region also just came through an extreme heat event with heat indexes between 100 and 110 degrees over the Fourth of July weekend, prompting county officials to cancel Chesterfield's large fairgrounds celebration at 4:15 Saturday afternoon when severe thunderstorms moved in alongsid

A Fourth of July weekend in Chesterfield shaped by dangerous heat. An Excessive Heat Watch covered the Richmond region with heat indexes between 100 and 110 degrees, alongside a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. That heat sent a Chesterfield County firefighter to the hospital with heat exhaustion while crews battled a commercial fire on Reymet Road, and the firefighter was expected to recover. Looking ahead, the Farmers Market returns to the County Government Complex on Wednesday and the Summer in the Parks Series comes to Cogbill Park on Thursday evening. Full stories at chesterfieldreport.com.

Happy Fourth of July! Today's holiday edition: the county moved up its Fourth of July fireworks at the Fairgrounds because of the heat (gates open 6 p.m.), Meadowdale Library is open as a cooling center, and the county is asking everyone to ease up on outdoor water use during the drought.