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.
With warm weather and a multitude of political signs and campaign representatives to greet them, Amherst County voters headed to the polls Tuesday with a full slate of mostly competitive local races.
On a 6-1 vote, the Amherst County School Board opted to maintain a nondiscrimination policy on the books from a year ago and not adopt a model transgender policy from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration and the Virginia Department of Education making rounds through school boards across the state.