Appomattox News

Tom Perriello Medicare is a critical part of our promise to our seniors and it must be protected...

Avoid heavy traffic by visiting Virginia 511's Web site. To ease travel during the Thanksgiving holiday, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) will suspend lane closures for construction and maintenance work on interstate, primary and major secondary routes around the state...

On the evening of Thursday, November 19, 2009, the Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) was honored with a Community Change Champions Award from the Center for Community Change (CCC)...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond announces the following officer promotions, effective Jan. 1, 2010. Roland Costa was named senior vice president and chief technology officer over the Currency Technology Office...

Traffic construction, weather permitting. Highway work is scheduled weather permitting in the Lynchburg District and traffic may be restricted. For the latest real-time traffic information, please call 511 or visit www.511Virginia.org...

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) and the Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) released a new report today showing that low and middle-income families in Virginia pay a far higher share of their income in state and local taxes than do the richest families in Virginia...

Gifted programs disproportionately filled with white students. Governor Timothy M. Kaine announced today that, at his direction, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has initiated a study to analyze disproportionately low representation of minority students in gifted education...

Tom Perriello I want to update Virginians on some of the efforts I am undertaking in Congress to get our economy back on track. You may recall in the September 28 edition of this newsletter, I wrote that the U.S...

The Appomattox Town Council Workshop Meeting for Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Appomattox Municipal Building, 210 Linden Street, Appomattox, has been canceled. Please contact the Town Manager’s Office at 343-352-8268 with questions or concerns.

Governor Timothy M. Kaine has requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) send preliminary damage assessment teams to Virginia to help determine damage levels from the recent Nor’easter. ...

Beware flooded roads Numerous roads are reported closed by high water in Campbell, Charlotte, Halifax and Pittsylvania counties in the Lynchburg District of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and while the rain continues, high winds have also brought down trees throughout the area...

Mary Massie Sweet Briar College student Mary Massie, a voice major from Madison Heights, Va., will perform her senior recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30. The recital will be held at Memorial Chapel and admission is free...

Concerts include carols Sweet Briar College will host a series of musical events this upcoming month, beginning with its annual Christmas Vespers at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6...

Common radioactivity warning sign. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not come clean on its plan to dramatically raise permissible radioactive release levels, according to a lawsuit filed in October by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)...