Crews working to contain brush fire on Tobacco Row Mountain in Amherst County
IRON Lives, a local nonprofit that aims to provide positive youth development programming for public schools in Central Virginia, continues its local work with youth at area middle schools and high schools.
In an effort to attract more candidates for emergency medical services positions, the Amherst County Board of Supervisors recently allocated funds in an amount not to exceed $90,000 for a fourth captain in the public safety department.
Our latest batch of public records: property transfers for Lynchburg and the surrounding counties, plus building permits for Campbell County.
As Austin Deanda marched to the ring inside the Boonsboro Ruritan Club on Saturday night, there was no doubt who the crowd came to see. After all, it was a homecoming fight for the Amherst County native, who was fighting in his tenth professional fight.
When I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire in the early 1980s, I saw a handful of people with withered legs, who moved through life on their knuckles because of a crippling disease called polio.
When author Pam Webber was growing up in the town of Amherst, the nation was tightly gripped in the turmoil of the Vietnam War.
Former Amherst County Administrator Dean Rodgers, who recently resigned from the post after eight years and two months, gave a public farewell Nov. 15 after the county board of supervisors unanimously approved a resolution in his honor.
A Charlottesville-based company’s plan for a solar generation utility-scale facility on property fronting Izaak Walton Road has received the Amherst County Board of Supervisors’ approval.
After a pause of two years, local churches in Amherst will again host the annual Community Christmas Sing, Singing in the Season.
The Town of Amherst has been working for just more than a week to resolve a water issue at Sweet Briar College, the town utility’s largest customer.
A special exception permit for a business selling granite countertops within an auto shop near the Virginia 151 and U.S. 29 intersection in northern Amherst County recently received county officials’ approval to proceed.
“I love to see my whole team eat,” Mosby said after emerging from a jubilant locker room, where music blared to mark a 42-14 thrashing of Amherst.
The Amherst County Service Authority and county board of supervisors have approved an ordinance change to the assessment of availability fees on new development within the county.
Our latest batch of public records: property transfers for Lynchburg and the surrounding counties, plus building permits for Campbell County.
“A lot of my friends and coaches as me to come out [to try football],” West said. “And it’s my senior year, so I figured I’d try it.”
A first read of a proposed new policy on sexually explicit material in Amherst County Public Schools was presented to the county school board on Nov. 10.
Amherst County soccer players from Area #24 Special Olympics Virginia attended Fall Champs at Hampton Roads Soccer Complex on Nov. 5-6 and brought home bronze medals in their division.
Lost instruction for the average Amherst County Public Schools student during the COVID-19 pandemic equals 56 hours, or 11 school days, according to a report presented to the county’s school board Nov. 10.
The #ShowUpAmherst initiative in Amherst County Public Schools continues to gather momentum with more themes planned in upcoming months and a community dinner targeted for early 2023.
Nearly five decades have passed since the late Edgar Fulton Fitzgerald served on the Amherst County School Board but the legacy of his community service still reverberates within the county school system.
With winter on the horizon — and with it, cold temperatures with ice and snow likely — the Lynchburg District of the Virginia Department of Transportation is gearing up and preparing to respond.
Amherst Glebe Arts Response (AGAR) and Second Stage — Amherst are presenting the new Amherst Java and Jazz, ‘The Quantum Mechanics in Jazzve Jazz — Brothers of the Bean’ (Coffeehouse music, stories and trivia) on Nov. 26.