NORFOLK â A Norfolk police officer whoâs also an emergency medical technician with the Potsdam Volunteer Rescue Squad and deputy director of St. Lawrence County Emergency Services was recognized for his recent lifesaving efforts in Norwood.
Officer Jonathan Mitchell was among those who responded to an unresponsive 15-year-old male in Norwood who had gone into cardiac arrest. After evaluation, the EMT-critical care member of the rescue squad discovered the child had no pulse as cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts continued.
Norfolk Police Chief Dan Holmes said Officer Mitchell heard a rescue squad call on his radio about the young manâs life-threatening condition. Officer Mitchell was in Norwood when the incident happened and was able to respond to the scene.
ALLISON BROPHY CHAMPION
Culpeper Star-Exponent
The Office of the State Inspector General says Virginiaâs land-conservation easement program, in which properties receive tax breaks, needs work.
One in three recent inspections of conservation easement found that monitoring by a land-trust company was inadequate, the office said in a statement last week.
After a yearlong audit of the stateâs Conservation Easement and Land Preservation Tax Credit Program, the office concluded that Virginia needs to improve the conservation quality it receives for tax credits.
OSIG auditors found trash, old tires, scrap metal piles, old campers, inoperable vehicles and a manure storage area containing dead-cattle parts on properties in easement it inspected, the agency said.
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