Learning from the past

2008: A civil case involving residents of Dogwood Valley and the Dogwood Valley Citizens Association (DVCA) is scheduled to be heard in Charlottesville’s United States District Court beginning Tuesday, June 24.
The case—Joseph Mitchell Miller et al, vs. Dogwood Valley Citizens Association, Inc., et al. - contends that the DVCA, its officers, and members of its board of directors “constitute an enterprise with a pattern of racketeering,“ based on court records.
Stanardsville Mayor Gary Lowe is president of the DVCA.  Joseph Mitchell “Mitch” Miller is a resident of Dogwood Valley.

2004: Stanardsville- A Greene County horseback riding instructor will spend the nest three years behind bars for inappropriately touching one of his young female students and videotaping another as she changed clothes in a shed. Ernest E. Pratt Jr., of Ruckersville, wept as he read in statement admitting guilt in Greene County Circuit Court on June 8.
“I am very sorry for what has happened and ask for the forgiveness of the victim and her family,“ he said.
God brought about the events that led to hid incarceration, he said.

1999: Local library patrons will be sorry to learn that well-liked local librarian Krista Farrell will soon be moving on. Farrell, branch manager of the Greene County Library since 1996, has been promoted to the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to manage the Gordon Avenue Library in Charlottesville.
“I really enjoyed my three years at the library,“ she said this week. “ “The community and local officials have been very supportive of library services,“ Farrell added.  During Farrell’s tenure as manager, public use of the library in Stanardsville has increases by more then 25%.

1984: The unemployment rate for Greene County has dropped again for the fourth consecutive month since the begging of 1984. The latest figures from the Virginia Employment Commission show that unemployment in Green County dropped from 6.9 percent in March to 6.3 percent in April. That drop of .06 percent follows a 0.7 percent decrease between February and March and a 0.3 percent decrease between January and February. While the total decrease in Greene County’s unemployment rate in 1894 of 1.6 percent is encouraging, keep in mind that a significant portion of that decrease is caused by seasonal shifts in unemployment.

1949: Potomac Edison’s new $7,415,000 electric stream generating plant at Riverton received five railroad carloads of turbine equipment during May as construction experts pushed ahead to complete the huge station prior to the previously announced December opening date.
PE Vice President George S. Humphrey announced that the nearly four hundred active employees at the Riverton installation were able to make “good progress” throughout the month on all work. Weather conditions were excellent, and all remaining structural and miscellaneous steel for the coal crusher house and track hopper structures is now completely installed.