The Botetourt County Republican party has scheduled a primary election on Saturday to choose board of supervisors candidates for the Amsterdam and Buchanan districts.
Amsterdam residents can vote from 3 to 6 p.m. at Lord Botetourt High School. Buchananâs primary is at Buchanan Elementary School from 9 a.m. to noon.
The firehouse primary â so called because it is organized by the local party, instead of elections officials â includes one longtime supervisor, Steve Clinton of Amsterdam. His opponent, Jim Ludington, is in his first race for office.
In Buchanan, Amy Stinnett White is running her first race, though supervisors unanimously appointed her late last year, after then-Supervisor Ray Sloan resigned to return to volunteer firefighting. Whiteâs opponent, Will Smith, has returned to campaigning after an unsuccessful 2009 run against then-19th District Del. Lacey Putney.
The Roanoke Times First Bite crew tries sippin for a change, with the new, Luke Bryan-branded beer that is brewed at Constellation Brands Daleville plant. Tad Dickens / The Roanoke Times
Huntinâ, fishinâ, lovinâ â and drinkinâ Luke Bryan-branded lagers and hard seltzers â every day. That doesnât quite have a commercial jingle ring to it. But it fits with some of the product coming out of Constellation Brandsâ Botetourt County brewery.
The Daleville plant, opened in 2017 to house San Diego-based Ballast Point Brewing Co.âs eastward operations, featured a restaurant and tasting room. That made the countyâs Botetourt Center at Greenfield industrial park a bit of a social hot spot for a couple of years. Beer and spirits giant Constellation Brands (Corona, Modelo) bought Ballast Point for $1 billion in 2015, then sold it in December 2019 to Kings & Convicts Brewing.