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Lynchburg City Council on Thursday released the names of the eight candidates it will interview for three seats on the school board that will be vacant June 30.
Greg Adkins stepping down as Lee County schools superintendent
He announced his plans to retire in a message to district staff Friday morning.
Adkins, 56, has served as superintendent since 2015, making his tenure the second longest in recent history behind James Browder, who served from 2003 to 2010. Serving as superintendent in Lee County for the last five and half years has been truly an honor and privilege beyond my highest expectation, Adkins wrote in the message.
His tenure as chief of schools is marked by successes he enumerated in the letter to employees, but his leadership was questioned by a few school board members who ran campaigns to remove him from office.
Surveys focused on the health needs and priorities for people living in Central Virginia are being collected once again by Centra Health to help steer community efforts to improve resident health, especially among more vulnerable populations.
The Community Health Needs Assessment is something required of Centra every three years as a tax-exempt hospital system. It entails survey-based data collection from Centraâs catchment region â divvied into three parts that focus on the Lynchburg, Bedford and Farmville areas â thatâs wrapped into a report published at the end of the year, followed by implementation plans specific to each area.
Collaboration among community partners is a key part of the process, and the first stakeholder meetings for both the Bedford and Lynchburg groups are being held this week.