Sowers files new motion in case against County

Lawyers representing David Sowers in the developers’ lawsuit against the County have filed a motion for reconsideration after a judge dismissed the suit March 12. In a memorandum released March 24, Sowers lawyers asked the Court to amend its March 12 ruling.

Sowers brought the suit against the Board of Supervisors in 2006, saying that the Board had unfairly denied his rezoning request for a portion of land located behind the Norwood Creek Subdivision. The Board would eventually approve the rezoning, and Sowers would abandon an earlier case filed in state court.

In a memorandum concerning the motion for reconsideration, Sowers’ attorney’s contend that “the Court did not address Sower’s contention that several bases on which the Court justified its disparate treatment of Sowers were illegitimate grounds for denying rezoning.”

Three Supervisors to hold town hall meetings in April:

District One - Joe Walton
April 3rd - 7pm
Independence Golf Club Auditorium
Topics: Verizon FiOS, District and County Issues
http://www.joewalton.com

District Two - Charlie Green
April 3rd - 7pm
Company Two Fire Station
Topics: District and County Issues
http://www.charliegreen.org

District Five - Carson Tucker
April 1st - 6:30pm (Light Dinner Served)
Shiloh Baptist Church
Topics: Taxes and County Budget, District and County Issues
http://www.carsontucker.com

For more information, visit http://www.powhatanva.gov.

College news

Former Powhatan students Nathan Madison, Erin Richardson and Miranda Travis have each been recognized by Mary Washington University for attaining a minimum grade-point average of 3.5 out of a possible 4.0.

Kelli Michelle Bailey graduated from VCU on December 8, 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Forensic C.S.I and a minor in Sociology. .

Powhatan’s Abigail Johnson, a Grove City College senior, recently received an honorable mention nod in the Ibn Khaldoun Essay Contest organized for the second year by Atlas Economic Freedom Foundation.

Johnson, a daughter of Jeffrey and Kathy Johnson, will receive $250 for her honor.

She is an economics major and a copy editor for The Collegian student newspaper on campus.

Her essay was titled, “Economics and Islam, Can Free Markets Work in the Muslim Context?”

The contest’s theme, “Economics and Freedom in Islamic Societies,” challenged students to address the relationship between free-market economic policies and freedom in the Islamic societies.