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The owner of Blue Toad Hard Cider is seeking a special use permit to construct a building in Afton at the same site off Virginia 151 where county officials in August approved plans for a new tasting room and a…

Declining enrollment is a factor in a $1.1 million deficit the Amherst County School Board is looking to offset in maintaining a “needs-based” 2018-2019 budget.

More than a hundred people gathering at Central Virginia Community College on Tuesday shared a common purpose in priming criminal offenders to return successfully to society as productive, healthy citizens.

RUSTBURG — After a lengthy public hearing Tuesday night, the Campbell County Board of Supervisors voted 4-3 to deny a rezoning request for about eight acres off of Timberlake Road to construct a 68-unit townhome development.

With Lynchburg City Schools’ new superintendent’s start date less than a month away, the Lynchburg City School Board unanimously approved her contract during Tuesday’s meeting.

BEDFORD — Trials previously scheduled for next week in the 2017 slaying of a Lynchburg teen by alleged MS-13 members have been put off as a host of attorneys review pieces of evidence numbering in the tens of thousands.

A beer and used bookstore will open downtown in mid-April.

Wednesday through March 23, four downtown streets will be closed 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays for water main valve maintenance, according to a news release from the city’s Department of Water Resources.

An Appomattox farm lost 11 animals Tuesday after a blaze destroyed a barn.

On Tuesday, weeks after pre-construction activities for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline began elsewhere along the route, trees began falling in Nelson County for the first time.