The need for textbooks was also mentioned - though at the Board’s budget workshop held earlier this month, Allen called attention to the fact that those textbooks had not been purchased.
Perhaps as a result, the Board of Supervisors upped its allocation to the District following the public hearing. The Board upped its allocation to the District again prior to passing the budget at its next regularly scheduled meeting.

1,400 tickets sold on sunny Saturday.

Carpenter ants

For week of April 21-25

NGES, Ruckersville, and WMMS all awarded first place finishes

Reader expresses concern over duputy case

It’s time for the yearly ritual of spring cleaning.  In a month featuring Earth Day, how do you clean (and inevitably discard) in a green manner? 

Business owners and potential entrepreneurs are invited to attend Entrepreneur Express: Moving Your Business Forward, a workshop designed to deliver practical, hands-on training and provide information on available business resources. Sponsored locally by the Greene County Chamber of Commerce, Greene County Department of Economic Development, and the Greene County Economic Development Authority, the event will be held on Tuesday, April 22nd, from 9AM -2PM at the Greene County Technical Education Center, 10415 Spotswood Trail in Stanardsville.

Greene County resident Lauralee Bliss and her son Josh hiked from Georgia to Maine

A number of area realtors are saying that sales of new homes are expected to remain steady through the spring with a gradual recovery occurring throughout the rest of the year.

The Stanardsville Town Council will meet on Wednesday, April 30, to appoint the next mayor of the town, following the death of Jerry Bortner on March 21.
Bortner served as mayor of Stanardsville for 14 years. His four-year term would have expired in 2010. 

Greene County is facing a 3.94 percent – or $102,543 – reduction in state aid, but it will not be laying that burden on taxpayers, according to Chairman of the Board of Supervisors Steve Catalano.

Greene’s School Board has requested $693,000 in local funding, but the County Board of Supervisors is saying all it’s going to get is the equivalent of an estimated $207,000.

Listing for March 2008

What time is it? 

National Library Week 2008 is April 13-19

Further charges could follow from onging investigation

What’s on the menu this week

Boys and cars, a perfect match, made Saturday’s Pinewood Derby a hit

Lacey Marie Beale wins Little Miss Greene and Luke Berry wins Little Mister Greene in this year’s contest, sponsored by the Greene County Lions Club

The Club, started more than three years ago and sponsored by the Greene County Ruritans, consists of sophomores, juniors and seniors who wish to serve their school and community. Its members have participated in, among other things, a road cleanup. They’ve manned the Ruritan float in the annual Parade of Lights. And they’ve collected donations for the County Animal Shelter and Kid Pan Alley, a Ruritan program that brings musicians into the schools.

Between 300 and 400 feet in back of Ken and Shirley McDaniel’s Spotswood Trail home is the site of an archaeological dig that has turned up more than 12,000 artifacts, some about 11,000 years old

Greene’s Board of Supervisors set its tone for the coming budget season at its workshop Monday, March 31, when it decided against paying $500 for a new podium in the County’s meeting room.
Instead, it will opt to have students at the Greene County Technical Center build one for the cost of supplies – about $100

Event begins at 7:30pm

Autism Awareness

What’s on the menu? 

Annual meeting is April 19

Communicating information is key

Mammograms may not be enough

Aim is to regulate where such establishments could locate.