A month-by-month recap of news in Amherst County in a year featuring a busy local election, kickoff of a renovation to the high school and a much talked about murder case coming back to Amherst.
The Amherst County School Board voted at its December meeting to approve hiring a new position through the end of the current school year that will allow sixth and seventh-graders to be placed at the Amherst Education Center in Madison Heights.
Amherst County Public Schools honored the most recent student of the month recipients at the county school board’s Dec. 14 meeting. The recipient students are listed below with comments from
Amherst County prides itself on providing quality education excellence at all levels and is the home of Adult and Career Education of Central Virginia (ACE) located in Madison Heights. The