About 30 people attended a public presentation of Martinsville s new budget Thursday night at the Thomas P. Dalton IDEA Center on Fayette Street. The emphasis of the presentation centered on a refocusing of Martinsville s vision for the future, post-reversion.
Members of Martinsville City Council attended a facilitated strategic planning retreat in the Gardner Boardroom of the New College Institute Building on Friday.
Martinsville is one step closer to restoring the tallest building in the city and returning it to a useful purpose. The Governor s Office announced on Wednesday that the city of Martinsville will receive $189,500 for site remediation at the former BB&T building at One Ellsworth Street.
With a mature fiber system already in place, Martinsville is far ahead of many other municipalities, but a study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) released on Jan. 18, shows a dramatic surge over the past three years in the number of communities that are building public-owned, locally controlled high-speed internet infrastructure. Unlike Martinsville, they are going head-to-head in competition with traditional internet service providers.