A heartfelt farewell to 19 educators from Amherst County Public Schools who are retiring or who have retired in the past year was held during a May 20 dinner at Sweet Briar College.
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Amherst County’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget is slated to include 13 new public safety positions, a 3% pay raise for county employees and funding for school resource officers with hopes that a state grant will come through in May to offset some of those costs, according to the board of supervisors’ March 19 discussion.
A judge ruled Wednesday to certify charges pending against two Amherst County residents who were arrested following a December incident where seven students at Central Elementary School ingested gummies from a bag laced with fentanyl.
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.