Hanover County Public Schools will meet this Thursday.

The meeting will cover responses to Board members’ questions regarding the proposed 2013-2014 budget, an overview of process-to-date regarding consideration of consolidation of services, and consideration of a proposal to make lacrosse a VHSL sport.

The meeting starts at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 31, at the School Board Office, 200 Berkley Street, Ashland.
 

Oak Knoll Middle School will sponsor a 5K race at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, at the school at 10295 Chamberlayne Road in Mechanicsville. The event will begin at the side entrance of the school near the adjacent neighborhood... Read More

Randolph-Macon College now offers a new major in archaeology. The archaeology major brings together knowledge from many disciplines to understand our past.

“Archaeology is the study of the human past, based on material culture. Archaeologists excavate objects that are displayed as art, analyze finds using methods and technologies from the natural sciences such as chemistry and geology, read historical documents and texts in many languages, and write with anthropological perspectives,” says Classics Professor Elizabeth Fisher. “The Archaeological Studies program is interdisciplinary, so many of the courses that complete the general education requirements of the liberal arts curriculum also count on the major or minor in Archaeological Studies.