Gloucester Main Street Association Misrepresenting Gloucester, VA

                                  Screen shot from the Gloucester Main Street Association site.  Click to enlarge image.

If you take a look at the screen shot above, you will see a picture from the Gloucester Main Street Association's Home page of their website. If you look at the header picture you will notice that the Gloucester Main Street Association claims that Gloucester, Virginia is the Daffodil capital of the world. This is not true and if you go in for more information, it takes you to a page that does not contain any historical information at all. You have to look for the historical information page from the page it takes you to. Strike two. Once on the historical page, when you get to the bottom of the page, the story changes to Daffodil capital of the United States. This part is true. But why lie to everyone on this point?

Okay, maybe it's one major blunder and we can overlook it as long as they bother to fix it. The other issue is the claim that Gloucester, Virginia is Virginia's oldest living village. Not so. Another major mistake. Let's see, what could possibly be older? Yorktown? Yes. Hampton? Very much so. Newport News? Without question. Maybe Williamsburg? How about Jamestown itself? Ya think? At one time they used to claim that Gloucester was the nations oldest living village. I brought that up to them and they said, and I quote, “No one has ever challenged the story.”

Well I guess someone challenged it as they no longer make that claim. Now I challenge the claim that Gloucester is Virginia's oldest living village. Hampton, Virginia already celebrated it's 400^th birthday a few short years ago and I was there to record that event. Jamestown celebrated it's 400^th anniversary back in 2007. Gloucester, Virginia is only 361 years old. It's Virginia's oldest living village how? Beats out Yorktown, Virginia how? What about Portsmouth? Surry? Charles City?

How can anyone expect to attract new business to an area when a self appointed local non profit concern starts out by lying to everyone?   That makes no sense. 

From their website. "In 1990, Gloucester County had become one of the nation’s fastest growing counties with a population of 33,000. National chains began to replace local businesses along Route 17, new residential developments were built, and the Walter Reed hospital expanded."

Really?  One of the nation's fastest growing counties?  Not on the list.  CLICK HERE for the list of the fastest growing counties in the USA during that time period.  Yorktown made the list, but Gloucester didn't. Yet another complete fabrication?  An outright lie?  

Some of the directors for the Gloucester Main Street Association are also high ranking Gloucester County, Virginia employees. Guess we are not surprised then by the lies on their site. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see more businesses come to main street especially not chain store types. I would love to see more businesses come to Gloucester overall. But you can't try and start a business relationship based on numerous lies and the complete fabrication of information. It's just sickening.

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Pre Gloucester, VA History - Jamestown Commodities and Industires

E-Book On Early Jamestown Commodities And Industries" E-Book On Early Jamestown Commodities And Industries from Chuck Thompson

The book above is some pre Gloucester history.  If you have read my previous works on a brief history of Gloucester, Virginia you know that this area was originally part of James Citti.  It later became a part of York County, Virginia and then became it's own county in 1651.  Confusing at first, but not that bad.  It's explained in the e-book.  Want a copy of this book?  We are giving away free downloads of it right here.  In the event you have issues with trying to figure out how to download the file, we have a site with all the information on it linked above under Additional Resources or https://sites.google.com/site/gloucesterresources/download-info  this link is the direct link to that page.

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Bill Gates Owner Of 220ft White Cloud Ship?

Bill and Melinda Gates during their visit to the Oslo Opera House in June 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Story by Chuck Thompson for GVLN.  http://wwww.GloucesterCounty-VA.com

Is Bill Gates the owner of the 220ft White Cloud ship?  69th largest private ship in the world.  Make no mistake about it.  This ship may be a bit older in design, but she is still an incredible beauty.  Just look at how she dwarfs all the other boats around her.  And yes, that is a real full size helicopter on the back deck.  For years everyone has been trying to learn who the owner of this ship is.  All of the information out there confirms that she is American owned.  Attempts to find out who the owner is by the public has not proved successful.

  Photos of the White Cloud by;  Chuck Thompson of TTC Media. 

Now there are a good number of people who fit the profile in the US to own this ship, however, none fit the profile better than Bill Gates.  He's retired and traveling the world with his wife giving away millions to certain charities.  The White Cloud is seen all over the world docked in some beautiful areas.  We met with some of the staff of the White Cloud and spoke with them.  They are well trained never to reveal the ownership of this boat.  

The pictures of the White Cloud above were taken in Yorktown, Virginia back in 2010.  Post below in the comments section and let us know where you have seen the White Cloud ship.  She makes an incredible impact wherever she goes.  

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Is Holli Cohoon Stalking This Victim? Gloucester, VA Board of Supervisors Do Not Deny Corruption

One of our team members posed an interesting legal question that we just are not able to answer.  How did Holli Cohoon get the address of the victim in this case?  Did she pull favors from the Gloucester, VA Sheriff's Office who would have then illegally given Holli the victim's private information?  Did the information come from maybe an old friend at the 911 call center who would have had access to pull those files and again illegally gave them to Holli?  Or is someone in the Gloucester, VA Sheriff's Office using Holli as a front?

  Here are some interesting points.  We sent detailed information about this case to the Gloucester, VA Board of Supervisors.  We received confirmation that they received the emails.  They have done nothing about the information about the case hence they do not deny the corruption.  Because we have shed a lot of light on the corruption of the Gloucester County Sheriff''s Office, Gloucester County Animal Control and a number of members of the court system and even the county attorney, Ted Wilmot, this looks like a way in which they are trying to stop the news from coming out.  Did we get to close to some other corruption?  Property tax abuses or something else?

Go back and look at Holli's court testimony against the victim in this case and listen to the 911 call.  They do NOT match up.   In fact, we contracted a professional 911 operator who explained in detail to us every area on the 911 recording that protocol was thrown out and nothing on that call could have been authentic in any way.  The recording was a complete violation of 911 procedures.  https://sites.google.com/site/gloucestervanews/segment-3  This is a link right to the 911 call recording as provided by the Gloucester County, VA Sheriff's Office and used in court.

https://sites.google.com/site/gloucestervanews/segment-4 is Holli's actual court testimony.  So it would seen that the victims are once again being victimized even further.

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Gloucester Foodie: "Hi Sweetie." The Courthouse Restaurant.

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Heads up: ID required at voting booths in November

9:15 a.m. EDT, July 25, 2012

Voters casting ballots in Virginia are now required to show identification at the polls, according to information provided by Gloucester General Registrar Bobbi Morgan.

Previously, if you didn't have identification you were required to sign an "Affirmation of Identity" and voted normally.

Under the new law, voters without identification have to vote a provisional ballot and provide the Voter Registrar's office with a copy of some sort of identification by noon of the Friday after the election. Otherwise, the vote won't count.

Here's a list of acceptable identifications, provided by the Virginia Board of Elections:

--Commonwealth of Virginia voter identification card;

--Social Security card;

--Valid Virginia driver's license;

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Jeff Stillman Burning Animals By Local Schools And Churches

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We looked at the local Gloucester map again where Jeff Stillman of Animal Control is burning animals and noticed that it is located in very close proximity to two schools, Bethal elementary school and Peasley middle School as well as Bethal baptist church.   So if the wind blows the right way, all the local children have the extreme pleasure of breathing in little fluffy being burnt to a crispy ashes.  We said before that we highly question Jeff Stillman's involvement with this animal cremation business being an Animal Control officer right here in Gloucester.  That really has such a huge potential for a conflict of interest.  In the event he claims he is not involved?  Here is the evidence right from their Facebook page.

Of course there is more evidence on here showing Jeff is active in the business.  Can you imagine coming out of church and having ash land on you only to discover that it's ash from someone's pet?  How about your son or daughter going to school and having ash land on them from some animals being burnt by Jeff and his wife.  Maybe you do not mind your children breathing in the smoke from some horse being cremated only right down the street?  Honestly.

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Holli M Cohoon Now Harassing Victim?

Is Holli M Cohoon now harassing the victim she gave highly questionable testimony against?  

Let's go back to the beginning on this.  Holli M Cohoon was once a 911 operator for the Gloucester, VA Sheriff's Office.  We have been reporting for some time now on this case and we have shown that at the very least, Holli has lied in court.  Now all of a sudden from out of nowhere, the victim gets this emergency protective order a few days after we released a story on Holli and her Sunrise Donut shop.

  The victim in this case was initially raided by the Gloucester, VA Sheriff's Office, under Sheriff Steve Gentry, and Gloucester, VA Animal control without a search warrant.  A search warrant was not issued to this victim until later in the day after she was released from jail.  This victim had no idea was she was even taken to jail.

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We have shown that the search warrant that was given to the victim after being released from jail was not valid in any area of law.  We showed also that this victim had all kinds of false evidence used against her by Gloucester, VA Animal Control and the Gloucester, VA Sheriff's Office.  We show that Holli's testimony was no where near the other false evidence given by others presenting further false evidence.
We have shown how the evidence is false.

  The victim in this case has been working on a lawsuit against Holli M Cohoon for some time now and it is opinion that Holli may have gotten wind of a pending lawsuit and is using this as a way to throw off the case.  So is this a harassment attempt by Holli?

 When putting together a lawsuit, you get detailed information on what the other party owns in order to determine if the lawsuit can be justified.

Now here is some other information we find very interesting.  We went over the above document with a fine tooth comb and see that Gloucester County court officials followed everything to the letter of the law.  Now how is it they can do this now but were unable to do this in the past?  Every area properly signed, every aspect properly dated and executed.  Yet on the search warrant given after the raid on the victim, nothing was done properly.  Go back into our archives and see for yourself.  We posted that evidence.  Or Click Here to see all the evidence from this case.

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Mathews Man Dies In Single-Vehicle Wreck

By Matt Sabo, msabo@dailypress.com | 757-247-7872

3:04 p.m. EDT, July 24, 2012

MATHEWS — A Mathews man died Saturday afternoon after the truck he was driving veered off the road and careened into a utility pole.

Michael James Diggs, 22, was driving a 2008 Toyota Tacoma pickup eastbound on Route 198 just west of the intersection with Hookemfair Road at about 4:50 p.m. when the vehicle ran off the right side of the road, said Sgt. Greg Mathias of the Virginia State Police. Diggs over corrected and ran off the left side of the road before the vehicle overturned and struck a utility pole.

Diggs was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck, Mathias said. He was not wearing a seat belt.

A passenger, Jeremy Stephen Forrest, 20, of Mathews, was transported to Riverside Regional Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, Mathias said. Forrest was believed to be wearing a seat belt, he said.

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