Garber named president of Southeastern Association of Fire Chiefs

First runner-up Rachel Penley of Bland County will receive $500 courtesy of Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co. The Young Agriculturalist program is organized by the VFBF Young Farmers Committee and honors high school juniors and seniors for academic, community and agribusiness achievements. Meet Tanner Wise. Wise is the son...

Jacob and Jennifer Gilley of Orange County recently were named this year’s Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers Excellence in Agriculture award winners. They were honored last month during the VFBF Young Farmers Summer Expo in Wytheville. The Excellence in Agriculture award recognizes individuals and couples for involvement in...

Scholars Latino Initiative (SLI) celebrates 10 years this year as a Virginia nonprofit and announced Stephania Cervantes as its first managing director. SLI provides college access opportunities in high school and financial support for college success for Latino/a/x. In her role, Cervantes’ will promote and execute the nonprofit’s mission to support Latino/a/x students with academic challenge, leadership development, scholarships and mentorships.

Master firefighter Chris Daniels has attained certification as a National Passenger Safety Instructor. National Child Passenger Safety Certification is a program of Safe Kids Worldwide, created in 1997. Currently, there are more than 43,000 nationally certified Child Passenger Safety Technicians with 1,780 of them being Instructors. Instructors use their considerable...

A suit filed in an Albemarle County court is challenging the Virginia Department of Corrections’ interpretation of a budget amendment to negate good behavior credits earned by state prison inmates. The ACLU of Virginia filed the suit, Anderson v. Clarke, in the Albemarle County Circuit Court, challenging the continued...

The Charlottesville Alliance for Black Male Achievement and several other local organizations will partner Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, to host a back-to-school bash. All are welcome for free haircuts, braids and raffle prizes at the Boys and Girls Club on Cherry Avenue in Charlottesville from 2 to 7 p.m. The...

A USDA program will provide $2,124,300 in emergency rural health care funding to bolster federal support in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding will be provided to the Ledwith-Lewis Free Clinic in Tappahannock, Page Memorial Hospital in Luray, Tazewell Community Hospital in Tazewell, and Wellmont Health System in Big Stone Gap. This funding was awarded through the Community Facilities Emergency Rural Health Care program.

Earlier this year, the Charlottesville Police Civilian Oversight Board selected Sivil Technologies Inc. as the software company that will provide the online system to receive and process police misconduct complaints for the city. Executive Director Hansel Aguilar has been working with Sivil’s CEO, Tony Rice II, over the past few...

Boys Home of Virginia provides a supportive environment for young men whose lives have been negatively impacted by poverty, family instability or other life circumstances. The goal is to provide the young men with educational and career opportunities. Mulu Slawta, a student at Boys Home in Covington, recently completed a...

Arts Council of the Valley announces two new exhibitions at Smith House Galleries during September. An Iowa native, Hall studied art education at the University of Northern Iowa and taught elementary school art in Iowa for 11 years before moving to Virginia with his family in 2009. He currently lives in Harrisonburg, where he works as an artist, operates Flannel Firefly candle company, and volunteers in the community.

Albemarle County officers responded to multiple calls of shots fired in the 700 block of Queens Court at 3:12 a.m. Tuesday. Several buildings and vehicles were hit, but no injuries were reported. The investigation has been turned over to our Criminal Investigation Unit and is ongoing. Anyone with information regarding...

A Burkville man is being sought after a Virginia State Police pursuit initiated following a report of a theft from a gas station at Exit 162 along Interstate 81 in Botetourt County. Shawn Michael Tolbert, 42, fled on foot after crashing his vehicle in Craig County following the Aug. 11...

Vehicular traffic will be flagged during the day on Old Avon as well as East South Street to install new stormwater pipe, sanitary sewer lines and accommodate bridge construction. East South Street will be closed to through traffic and will be one-way westbound to accommodate access to/from local businesses. The temporary parking lot entrance has moved from its location on East South Street to Old Avon while a new storm sewer line is installed.

Isaac Traudt has had a pair of solid outputs in Virginia’s first two games in Italy, contributing eight points, four rebounds and three steals in Virginia’s 76-24 win over Stella Azzura Basketball Academy on Saturday in Rome, then going for a game-high 19 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals in the 71-41 win over Orange1 Basket Bassano in Florence on Monday.

Virginia improved to 2-0 on its tour of Italy with a 71-41 win over Orange1 Basket Bassano in Florence on Monday, which is all the more impressive when you consider what the team did before the game. It’s 463 steps to the top of the city’s most famous church, the...

Will Frizzell and T.J. White each drove in three runs, and the FredNats scored five times in the seventh inning to pull away with a 10-4 win over the Lynchburg Hillcats in the series opener in Lynchburg. The FredNats wasted no time getting to the bats in the first inning....