Brooks was the county’s first library director and was hired in 1980 after the Board of Supervisors voted to withdraw from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library.

She’s helped expand the library system to include branches in Bowling Green, Ladysmith, Port Royal and Dawn.

The Board of Supervisors honored her with a resolution at the June 11 meeting and she introduced Maureen Dorosinski, who will become the new library director July 1.

Have you had any particularly memorable experiences with Mrs.Brooks? I’d like to hear about them.

You can shoot me an email at rsidersky@freelancestar.com or give me a call at 540-374-5413.

The YMCA would provide after care for the three elementary schools (Bowling Green Primary and Bowling Green Elementary will be in one building next year) and potentially the middle school.

The daycare will be provided at each of the schools.

The school division put out a request for proposals and received three bids and they were reviewed by a committee and the YMCA was selected as a result.

The board came out of closed session and amended Killough’s contract so that his salary is $131,952. The increase is due to the 3 percent raise that all school employees will receive.

The School Board extended Killough’s contract in April through 2015.

At 7:54 p.m., the NWS Doppler Radar indicated a tornado near Hanover County, 9 miles north of Mechanicsville moving northeast at 30 miles per hour.

The storm will be near Beulahville around 8:10 p.m., Newtown around 8:20 p.m. and other impacted locations include Glove, Epworth, Pollards Corner, Upshaw, Duane Fork, Owenton and Salvia. 

The warning expires at 8:30 p.m. Caroline, along with the rest of the Fredericksburg region, is under a tornado watch until 10 p.m.

Will update.

The winners are:

Caroline High School

Jamie Lay – http://jlay.blogs.ccps.us/

Caroline Middle School

Nicholas Schwartz – http://nschwartz.blogs.ccps.us/

Bowling Green Elementary School

Jacquelyn Huff – http://jhuff.blogs.ccps.us/

Bowling Green Primary School

Aimee Armentrout – http://aarmentrout.blogs.ccps.us/

Lewis and Clark Elementary School

Mark Sparico – http://msparico.blogs.ccps.us/

Madison Elementary School

Nicole Kravits – http://nkravits.blogs.ccps.us/

The boys track team won the Battlefield District for the third straight season, third place in the region and fourth

in the state.

The girls track team finished fifth in district.

DaQuan Pollard won the state championship for boys high jump.

The calendar has been revised so that:

• June 19 is the last day of school instead of June 13
• Teacher workdays and end-of-the-year professional development days have been moved from June 16,17 and 18 to June 20,23 and 24
• Bank time would be used for any additional time missed beyond the six days that would be in the calendar. Those days include Jan. 30,Feb.17. and June 16-19.

Here’s the agenda.

There will also be a closed session that covers three topics:

1. Personnel- appointments, voluntary transfer(s), involuntary transfer(s), resignations, terminations, requests for leave without pay, re-appointments, stipends, approval of Summer School staff, non-renewals and a coaches list

2. Discipline- The consideration of a recommendation for disciplining a student enrolled in the school division

3. Acquisition of land- The discussion of the possible acquisition of a parcel of land by the school Board