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When does school start for some Central Virginia students?

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July 19, 2024

When does school start for some Central Virginia students?

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — When is the first day of school for some Central Virginia students heading into the 2024-25 academic year?

School is just around the corner for some students in Central Virginia. 8News has compiled a list of dates for when students are expected to attend their first day of school.

Richmond Public Schools

According to Richmond Public Schools’ calendar, the first day of school for RPS 200 students will take place on Monday, July 22, with all other schools to start on Monday, Aug. 19.

Chesterfield County Public Schools

According to Chesterfield County Public Schools’ calendar, students in first through fifth grades at Bellwood Elementary will start school on Monday, July 22.

Prekindergarten and kindergarten students at Bellwood Elementary will start school on different days based on the letters of their last name. The following is the schedule for these students:

Students with last names that start with A-L will attend school on Monday, July 22 and Tuesday, July 23
Students with last names that start with M-Z will attend school Wednesday, July 24 and Thursday, July 25
All prekindergarten and kindergarten students will attend school daily starting Friday, July 26

The first day of school for all other Chesterfield County Public Schools students in prekindergarten through 5th grades will be Monday, Aug. 19, according to the school district’s calendar.

All prekindergarten and kindergarten students will attend school during the first week, however, there will be a staggered schedule for students.

According to Chesterfield Schools, some prekindergarten and kindergarten students will attend school on Monday, Aug. 19 and Tuesday, Aug. 20, whereas others will attend on Wednesday, Aug. 21 and Thursday, Aug. 22, with schools to assign students to specific days.

Chesterfield Schools said the staggered schedule will allow students to become more familiar with their new surroundings in a smaller classroom setting. All prekindergarten and kindergarten students will report to school daily starting on Friday, Aug. 23.

The first day of school for sixth and ninth-grade students will take place on Monday, Aug. 19, with all other middle and high school students in seventh, eighth, 10th, 11th and 12th grades to start school on Tuesday, Aug. 20.

Henrico County Public Schools

According to Henrico County Public Schools’ calendar, students will attend their first day of school on Monday, Aug. 19.

Hanover County Public Schools

Kindergarten, first, sixth and ninth grade students of Hanover County Public Schools will begin school on Monday, Aug. 19, with all other students to attend school on Tuesday, Aug. 20, according to the school district’s calendar.

Petersburg City Public Schools

The first day of school for Petersburg City Public Schools students will take place on Monday, Aug. 19, according to the school district’s calendar.

Hopewell City Public Schools

According to the school district’s calendar, the first day of school for Hopewell City Public Schools students will take place on Monday, July 29.

Colonial Heights Public Schools

The first day of school for Colonial Heights Public Schools students will take place on Monday, Aug. 19, according to the school district’s calendar.

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Five Takeaways from Mizzou’s 13-7 Gator Bowl loss to Virginia

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December 28, 2025

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Five Takeaways from Mizzou’s 13-7 Gator Bowl loss to Virginia

Mizzou’s 2026 season ends with an 8-5 record after losing the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl to Virginia. Missing a host of offensive players to transfers and injury, Mizzou’s offense failed to put up any points after the opening drive, making Virginia’s lone touchdown and two field goals enough to come out on top.

Here are your five takeaways.

Bowl games may not matter in the grand scheme of things. But despite what you may be told, they do have an impact on fan perception of a program. And Mizzou’s performance against Virginia will certainly leave a sour taste in mouths for the next few months.

Mizzou, a team that prides itself on a dominant run game and time of possession, was out-possessed by almost 17 minutes of game clock. A defense that made its bones on third-down conversion allowed the Cavaliers to convert 13 third downs for a 56.5 percent rate. The First Team All-American running back? Held to just 15 carries on the night, including conspicuous absences in critical, late-game moments (despite averaging 5.9 yards per carry.)

Don’t let the one-score outcome, or the fact that Mizzou nearly came back to win it late, fool you. The Tigers were flattened by Virginia in Jacksonville. Eli Drinkwitz and his staff will have plenty of bulletin board material to use for next season just based on this game alone.

2. So those final two plays…

I had written out a whole takeaway about how bad Matt Zollers was tonight. And by no means was he good. But the final drive, which saw him uncork a few mouth-watering throws, redeemed his performance somewhat. Unfortunately, an ultimate redemption was taken out of his hands by the referees.

With Mizzou sitting at the edge of the red zone on third-and-10, Matt Zollers scrambled to his right and threw a ball away under pressure from a Virginia defender. Then, after the ball had been out of his hand for a good second, another Cavalier came barreling in to lay a blind side hit on the freshman, whipping his head onto the turf and causing Zollers to grasp his helmet. After a few seconds of lying on the ground, Zollers bounced up for his final shot at the end zone.

Except it never came. The referees, using their discretion, removed Zollers from the game under the auspices of a possible head injury. Zollers, looking disconsolate at the decision, could only watch as walk-on Brett Brown put a lob into the corner of the end zone that was broken up by Virginia’s defense.

Perhaps it’s the right call by the officials given the game’s lack of importance and Zollers’ obvious discomfort after the hit. But allowing the hit to go unpunished in the first place will add to the grievance Mizzou fans will feel given the referees then put the Tigers at further disadvantage by removing their best passer from the game.

3. All chalk, all the time

With Mizzou’s loss to Virginia, the Tigers end their season perfect against teams with losing records… and winless against teams with winning records.

A team’s record isn’t everything, and it shouldn’t be the only factor in how we evaluate the program moving forward. The advanced numbers say that Mizzou was one of the country’s top 25-30 teams this year, and that’s meaningful when you play in the SEC. But it’s kind of poetic that this Mizzou team was exactly what it ended up on the scoreboard: Good enough to beat the bad teams, but not good enough to beat the good ones. It’s a tag that is starting to follow Eli Drinkwitz’s teams around, one that will be especially noteworthy given his new, eye-popping salary.

It’s a downer note for his season to end on, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t call out Mizzou’s new all-time single season rushing champion. Ahmad Hardy started the game with a bang, rushing 42 yards to set up Mizzou’s only scoring drive of the night. And while he was inexplicably sat for much of the game, he was able to bust enough trademark YAC runs to brake Cody Schrader’s record of 1,624 yards on the ground.

All eyes will be on the First Team All-American when Mizzou takes the field next season, and it’ll be difficult for him to top what he’s already done in black-and-gold. But he’s earned those distinctions, as well as the right to have an offense built around him. Get to work, Mr. Lindsey.

5. All eyes on the transfer portal and draft

Mizzou’s season on the field is over. But off-the-field, things are getting hairy.

Will the Tigers bring in QB competition for Zollers? Can they rebuild their WR corps and secondary? Will there be any upgrades in the trenches? How many more players will they lose? Which eligible players will declare for the draft?

A lot of questions hang in the air, and we won’t have to wait too long for answers.

Thanks to everyone who reads these pieces each week. Sometimes they’re a lot of fun to write. Sometimes they kind of suck. They’re always a challenge, and the engagement they get makes a writer feel good.

Happy New Year, all! M-I-Z!

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How to Watch and Listen to Virginia vs Missouri: Kickoff Time and TV Channel For The Gator Bowl

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December 27, 2025

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How to Watch and Listen to Virginia vs Missouri: Kickoff Time and TV Channel For The Gator Bowl

Today, Virginia wraps up its historic 2025 season with what they hope is a Gator Bowl win over Missouri. The Cavaliers are aiming to get their 11th win of the season today and shake off the disappointment of the ACC Championship loss to Duke.

Virginia will play in its first bowl game since the 2019 Orange Bowl against Florida. The Cavaliers were most recently bowl-eligible in
2021, but the Fenway Bowl against future ACC foe SMU was canceled due to COVID issues.

Saturday will be Virginia’s 22nd bowl game appearance and the third time UVA has been a participant in the Gator Bowl (1991,
2008, 2025).

Here is how you can watch and listen to today’s game:

TV: ABC (7:30 p.m. ET)

Bob Wischusen, Play-By-Play

Louis Riddick, Analyst

Kris Budden, Sideline

VIRGINIA SPORTS RADIO NETWORK

John Freeman, Play-By-Play

Ahmad Hawkins, Analyst

Preston Willett, Sideline

Micah Haines, Engineer

Affiliates: VirginiaSports.com/Radio

SATELLITE RADIO

SiriusXM: 371 | SXM App: 371

Big Time Matchup

Dec 6, 2025; Charlotte, NC, USA; Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Elliott greets players during the second half against the Duke Blue Devils during the 2025 ACC Championship game at Bank of America Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images | Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images

One of the biggest questions surrounding this game is how Missouri is going to look with its starting quarterback Beau Pribula. True freshman Matt Zollers is going to start today for the Tigers and it will be his third start of the season.

Pribula was the starter for the majority of the season for the Tigers, aside from when he was out with an injury, and had a solid season as a dual-threat quarterback. Pribula had Missouri at 6-1 when he was injured and threw for 1,971 yards with 17 total touchdowns and nine interceptions, completing 67.4%.

True freshman quarterback Matt Zollers is going to get the start for the Tigers in the bowl game. Zollers came in for Pribula when he went down in the loss to Vanderbilt and started two games against Texas A&M and Mississippi State. In the loss to the Aggies, Zollers finished 7-22 for 77 yards. In the win over the Bulldogs, Zollers finished 8-15 for 112 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. It will be his third career start.

“We’re grateful for another opportunity to finish what has been such a special season for this program, the players, staff, alumni, donors and UVA fans,” Fralin Family Head Football Coach Tony Elliott said. “We want to send off our seniors, who have given everything to this program, the right way and that will be our focus going into this final game.”

The Cavaliers reached 10 wins for only the second time in program history, matching the 1989 team for the school record. UVA finished alone atop the ACC regular season standings for the first time ever and clinched a berth in the ACC Championship game for the second time since game’s inception in 2005. Going into bowl season, Virginia is ranked No. 20 in the Associated Press Top 25 and No. 19 in the week 16 College Football Playoff rankings.

Virginia will square off against Missouri for only the second time in program history. The only other meeting took place in 1973 in Columbia, MO. Virginia will play an SEC opponent for the first time since the 2023 season opener against Tennessee.

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Hometown Jobs: Criminal Justice Program at Virginia Western Community College

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December 27, 2025

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Hometown Jobs: Criminal Justice Program at Virginia Western Community College

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – There’s a huge need for criminal justice professionals across our hometowns.

One community college is offering programs to foster grow the next generation of professionals in police, courts or corrections.

“These are vital roles in our community, so we want to make sure that they have the skills that they need to be able to go out into those roles in the community,” said Jeff Dodson, Program Head.

In the Criminal Justice Program at Virginia Western Community College, they emphasize three important things.

“Professionalism, accountability, and integrity,” said Dodson.

He said to do that they have developed a program which encompasses all aspects of criminal justice.

“So criminal justice is so much deeper than just the police. You know, you can get into probation and parole. You can get into corrections. You can get into certain types of counseling, forensic science,” said Dodson.

For most students, it’s a passion and a need to want to make the community where they live in a better place.

“Everything that we do is basically around the community policing aspect of it. And so I really like to get the community engagement part of the criminal justice program,” said Aiden Likens, student.

“In that class, like it was just night and day because I was in that class and I was also a community engagement officer. I was able to just take like what I was learning and then like do it in the field each day and just treat people with respect and make them feel like we really truly care,” said Kala Gilbert, student.

The program offers hand on experience through the crime lab and partners with law enforcement in our hometowns to help them learn what it’s like on the job.

“We give instructions from basic law to search and seizure techniques to, like, the practical application of being in a career in law enforcement….I’ll be able to bridge the gap between understanding what the job is and then talking about the job, but make sure we facilitate a comfortable environment for future employment,” said Officer Nicholas Comas, police recruiter for Roanoke Police.

As well as internships.

“You don’t really know how to be a cop and what really goes into the day-to-day work until you actually see it firsthand,” said Brian Lee, police recruiter for Roanoke County Police.

“Offering internships for us allow us to help develop the next generation of law enforcement professionals,” said Sean Slusser, Captain for Salem Police.

If you would like to learn more about the program, click here.

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