Learning from our past

Staff reports
Published: November 6, 2008

2007: The three candidates running for two At Large seats on the Greene County School Board- Troy Harlow, Grayden Lamb, and William Welch—joined the two candidates competing to represent the Monroe district-Darcy Higgins and Jesse Sheckler- for a 2 hour candidates forum, held on Wednesday at William Monroe Middle School. Moderated by the League of Women’s voters, the forum was cosponsored by residents for Excellence in Education Now (GREEN) and the Greene County Education Association (GEA) of teachers. The candidates were asked several prearranged questions before taking on questions from the audience.
2003: It’s been 10 years since the reenactment of the Battle of Stanardsville has been held in Greene County, and now the event is coming back. First held in 1984, the annual reenactment of the Battle of Stanardsville has taken place in Nelson, Madison, and Greene counties. The Greene Economic Development Authority is sponsoring the event, which will take place on Sept. 23-26, 2004. Despite its name, the battle of Stanardsville took place at South River on March 1,1864. Union forces led by Gen. George Armstrong Custer had already passed through Greene on their way to Charlottesville, looting and leaving burning bridges in their wake.
1998: Greene County had extremely low voter turnout in a ho-hum election for local voters. With no Democratic nominee on the ticket for the 7th district House of Representatives seat, and no local issues on the ballot, many Greene County residents did not bother to get out and vote.  It is no surprise that Republican incumbent Thomas Bliley beat out Independent Bradley Evans for the 7th District seat. Of the 1,532 Greene County voters who went to the polls Tuesday, 71 percent did not vote for either candidate.  Apparently the controversial Constitutional Amendments 3 and 4 drew more Greene County voters ten the bid for the 7th district house seat. The two proposed amendments which would have allowed groups of local governments to form coalitions for funding economic development projects without accumulating local debt, were rejected statewide by a large margin.
1983: In addition to signing documents transferring control of the $3.7 million sewer project to the Rapidan Service Authority, the Greene County Board of Supervisors transacted two other pieces of business at its October 18 meeting. The board voted unanimously to appoint Ken Lacey temporary county dog warden for a one month period while job applications for the part-time positions are reviewed. The position has been vacant since October 1. The supervisors agreed to request use of former warden Carroll Snow’s home-based facility to house stray dogs until other arrangements can be made.
1948: R. N. Early was returned as commonwealth’s attorney over John Morris, local attorney, in the general election Tuesday, by the small margin of 25 voters. George Ed Morris, former deputy who was appointed to succeed the late A. Melone, sheriff over J. M. Crawford by a court of 942 to 22. In the only other contests, Sterling Lamb was elected supervisors from the Ruckersville district over J. B. Garrison by 294 to 59 votes. According to an unofficial count, a total of 1091 votes were cast with the heaviest balloting in the Ruckersville district. Returned to county offices: supervisor for the Stanardsville district, J. B. Gentry, supervisor for the Monroe district, T. C. Graves, treasurer.