Long-time city employee, Amherst native, county supervisor and volunteer fire chief Tom Martin started working for the city of Lynchburg in 1993 as an entry-level planning technician and is now the city s director of community development.
An area of about 93 acres on Virginia 210 in Madison Heights recently was rezoned from a public lands, P-1, zoning district to Industrial, M-1, at the request of the Economic Development Authority of Amherst County.
After approving two solar farms in the past few years and last month denying the largest one yet proposed in the Piney River area, the Amherst County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted an update to utility-scale solar zoning rules Tuesday.
Two former motels within a mile of each on U.S. 29 in Madison Heights are being torn down this week, a measure Amherst County officials said in a news release Tuesday are part of improvements to the county’s main business corridor.
A drop in federal relief money in response to the COVID-19 pandemic factors into the Amherst County Public Schools’ proposed 2024-25 budget that is a drop of about $340,700, or a 0.5% decrease from the current fiscal year.