A 22-acre site across from Amherst County High School for now has no zoning roadblock to become a new park, following a 3-2 vote from Amherst Town Council Wednesday to keep a designation in the town’s comprehensive plan that allows for public uses.
After more than half a century as a newspaper office, the Amherst-Nelson Publishing building at 134 Second St. in Amherst — longtime home to the New Era-Progress and Nelson County