Henrico Schools’ “phone-free” school year last year was, in practice, not exactly phone-free. But this coming school year, HCPS officials are promising a strict “bell-to-bell” phone ban. On June 11, the Henrico School Board will vote on new regulations in the Code of Student Conduct that would require students to
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The House is scheduled to meet June 18 and the Senate on June 22
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Moody Middle School eighth-grader Taran Shivkumar finished 30th at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., correctly spelling three words and answering two questions, as well as passing a spelling and vocabulary knowledge threshold quiz, before being eliminated in the eighth round when he misspelled the word cryosel,
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When Ellen Bohon was growing up in Hopewell in the 1960s and 1970s, “women didn’t get to do very much in sports,” she recalled. Well, maybe most women. Bohon was different. She played baseball, softball and basketball, snow skied, water skied and even played tackle football with the boys
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