Chesterfield County

Dean Mirshahi, VPM News.

The Chesterfield County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to set the zone for the new Westridge High School.

Many students previously zoned for Midlothian and Cosby High Schools will attend Westridge, though students in the Newmarket Village area will remain zoned for Midlothian High.

Westridge High is slated to have 2,400 students when it opens in August 2027, but it will not have a senior class for its first year.

CFS calls it the largest single order of its kind, and Fujikura its expanding manufacturing capacity to supply it.

The tape will support the rollout for arc power plants, beginning with the planned full-line fusion power station in Chesterfield County, Virginia.

So why does a fusion company need that much tape? This is the current carrying material inside its magnets.

A thin layer of superconducting material sits on a metal strip, and stacks of those strips go into the coils that confine the plasma.

From the VPM Newsroom in Richmond, I'm Kim Strother.

Republican Rob Wittman represents Virginia's 1st District, which includes parts of Chesterfield and Henrico Counties, the Historic Triangle, and the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula.

This year, he is facing the toughest race of his nearly 20 years in office.

His Democratic challenger is Shannon Taylor, Henrico County's Commonwealth's attorney.

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Lastly, check out chesterfield.gov/connectwithus to find out a number of other ways to connect with Chesterfield County.

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VPM News' Dean Mirshahi reports that some state lawmakers want major changes with the technology.

On Friday, Chesterfield County announced a staff intelligent investigator, not a police officer, was arrested and charged with misusing the county's license plate reader system.

The cameras have come under national scrutiny over privacy concerns, and some Virginia legislators are calling for a statewide ban.

State Senator Mike Jones, a Democrat who represents parts of Chesterfield, said he believes that decision should be at the local level.

The post of the altered image started circulating after a Friday night football game against Midlothian High School.

Chesterfield County Public Schools says they're aware and Midlothian High School principal Sean Abel is calling its content, quote, unacceptable, adding that it does not align with Midlothian High School's values or the values of its football team.

He says the school board's investigation found the post was made by a student off campus and that it was not a Midlothian football player who made the post.

Abel says the incident underscores the importance of conversations with children about consequences of inappropriate and harmful social media use.

Nicole West, another Huguenot parent I spoke to, says she will continue to speak up for her son, who's on the football team, demanding disciplinary action to be taken to those responsible.

These are kids, these are great kids, these are Division I kids, these are great kids that want to be, that want to make it, they want to make it, and they're being addressed with racism, with hate, you know, and they can't address it themselves.

A CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SPOKESPERSON SAID STUDENT PRIVACY LAWS PREVENT THEM FROM SHARING ANY DISCIPLINARY CONSEQUENCES.

IN CHESTERFIELD, I'M TAYLOR LOCKS, CBS 6 NEWS.