Dinwiddie County, VA

United Way’s 2022 Kindergarten Countdown Camp with Dinwiddie County Public Schools in partnership with the United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg will be offering its summer camp from July 11 – July 28 2022, 8 a.m to noon. Kindergarten Countdown Camp is a free summer learning program for rising kindergarten students with limited to no preschool experience. Kindergarten Countdown Camp is taught by licensed teachers and help prepares students and parents for a successful start in kindergarten. A parent event covering kindergarten readiness topics, Readiness skills, a backpack full of school supplies and books, breakfast, lunch and transportation will be accessible for all those registered for this free program. Questions about this free camp can be directed to Penny L. Brooks, School Readiness & Literacy Coordinator via email at pbrooks@dcpsnet.org, or phone 804-469-4190; as well as Leanne Lytle, United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg via email at LytleL@yourunitedway.org.; or 804-771-5862.

A combined baccalaureate service and commencement exercise will be held at Brunswick Academy on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. The guest speaker will be Dr. Robert L. Rowland III of Smyrna Baptist Church in Dinwiddie, Virginia. Thirty-two seniors will be graduating. The valedictorian is Jacky Zhu, son of...

A Dinwiddie man won $130,000 on one Virginia Lottery ticket this week, and he says the first thing he's spending it on is some TLC for his home.

A combined baccalaureate service and commencement exercise will be held at Brunswick Academy on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. The guest speaker will be Dr. Robert L. Rowland III of Smyrna Baptist Church in Dinwiddie, Virginia. Thirty-two seniors will be graduating. The valedictorian is Jacky Zhu, son of...

DINWIDDIE, Va. -- Brittany Force won the Top Fuel class in the Virginia NHRA Nationals on Sunday and John Force Racing teammate Robert Hight took the Funny Car crown at Virginia Motorsports Park. Force beat four-time defending season champion Steve Torrence with a 3.770-second pass at 334.07 mph for her...

Larry McBride defies the conventional wisdom that a stable upbringing and formal education are the pathways to success. McBride blazed his path to multiple quarter-mile world records on a Top Fuel motorcycle with common sense, hard work, talent and (his brother’s) genius. McBride, a 63-year-old Poquoson native known to the racing world as “Spiderman,” said he’ll attempt this weekend to break ...

For the first time since 2019, the National Hot Rod Association Drag Racing Series returned to Virginia Motorsports Park in Dinwiddie.

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — Brittany Force won Top Fuel class in the Virginia NHRA Nationals on Sunday and John Force Racing teammate Robert Hight took the Funny Car crown at Virginia Motorsports Park. Force beat four-time defending season champion Steve Torrence with a 3.770-second pass at 334.07 mph for...

Not only can Spiderman do whatever a spider does, the Peninsula’s version, Larry “Spiderman” McBride, again has proven he can do what no other human can. McBride, 63, broke his own quarter-mile world record on a Top Fuel motorcycle dragster Saturday when he ran 268.38 mph in beating Dave Vantine in an exhibition match race in the NHRA Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park in ...

Matt Hagan made the quickest Funny Car run in Virginia Motorsports Park history Saturday to top qualifying for the Virginia NHRA Nationals.

The track at Virginia Motorsports Park is considered a fan favorite and one of the best surfaces on the NRHA's 22-event circuit.

WILSONS — Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in western Dinwiddie County a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens. When Medeiros confronted...

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — Top Fuel points leader Brittany Force broke both ends of the track record at Virginia Motorsports Park in qualifying Friday for the Virginia NHRA Nationals. In the NHRA’s first event at the track in three years, Force had a 3.710-second run at 335.82 mph. She...

DINWIDDIE, Va. (WWBT) - Five people have been sent to the hospital following a crash that happened Monday night. At 9:15 p.m. Namozine Volunteer Fire & EMS responded to a two-vehicle crash on Route 460. Once on scene, crews found two vehicles in the median with five people hurt. One...