Chesterfield County has asked residents to call 811 and request to have their utility lines marked prior to digging any shallow graves this holiday season.

Brandermill resident and diesel enthusiast Chuck Clatter has announced plans to let his truck idle for the next two hours.

Geologists with the United States Geological Survey have predicted that the Harbour Pointe neighborhood of Brandermill will fall into Swift Creek Reservoir by the year 2050.

Local dad Vance Chatterworth of Riverbirch Trace outtalked a historical interpreter at the Jamestown Settlement on Saturday.

The Brandermill Community Association is pleading with the owners of the community’s most derelict properties to make literally any home improvement.

Claiming that all other options had been exhausted on Wednesday afternoon, area dad Timothy Autumn has officially declared war on leaves.

Scroll through any neighborhood forum or Facebook page, and you're bound to find countless posts on the subject of lost cats. As a neighborhood cat, I'd like to set the record straight: A cat is rarely lost. She is usually exactly where she intends to be.

Checkers, 4, of Nuttree Woods, has made the difficult decision to rehome his human, Dave Cobblestark, 38.

Local great-grandfather Charles Elderberry celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday despite having never done CrossFit.

While responding to a resident complaint on Thursday, newly hired compliance officer Jason Weaktummy lost his lunch at the first sight of an unkempt property.

Local mathematician Long D. Vishun has developed a complex algorithm to predict the date of the next Powell's trash service. The method takes into account the position of the Earth, the phase of the Moon, migratory bird patterns, and countless other scientific factors.

The editorial staff at the Beacon has compiled a list of the top five uses for the Chesterfield Observer print edition.

Mistaken for a door-to-door pest control sales team, representatives from Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes were chased out of a Brandermill neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon.

By Jeff Watersnake

Working mother Kristen Chatterworth, 38, of Walnut Creek reported on Sunday that she spent the entirety of her weeklong beach vacation recovering from the anxiety experienced in the week preceding her vacation.

Chesterfield County Public Schools reported last week that the school district is short approximately 100 bus drivers and is urging parents to drive their children to school. We asked neighborhood residents for their perspective on this story. Here’s what they said.

In an audacious display of the resilience and pervasiveness of its species, the invasive plant Hydrilla has overtaken several parking spaces in the Commodore Point parking lot. Sources confirmed no Brandermill resident parking hangtag was visible.

Neighborhood grandmother Elaine Trapperdine of Quail Hill reported on Wednesday that her grandson Chase is good with computers.

The Brandermill Community Association has asked residents to assume that all pools are closed for emergency maintenance at all times, unless told otherwise.

Brandermill teen correspondent Gretchen Pompidou reported on Thursday that she and her peers have published a list of words that are considered off-limits to parents.