The U.S. Forest Service is seeking nominations to fill seven positions on an 11-member Southern Region Recreation Resource Advisory Committee.

With $43 million to work with, and no new Central Virginia Training Center on the drawing board, officials say it’s time to plan for renovations.

When “Patrick Henry” comes to Amherst next month, it will be a homecoming of sorts.

Sweet Briar College hopes to improve on a statewide shortage of special education teachers after receiving conditional approval to license students.

Dozens of Amherst County school buses soon will beckon this year’s students for their daily trips to and from classes.

As the U.S. 29 Bypass nears a third anniversary this fall, a new citizens’group is working to attract more business to Madison Heights.

Some may refer to them as dumpsters — others may drop the phrase “rural container sites.”

The Amherst County School Board is scheduled to meet today, Thursday, Aug. 14, to approve its six-year comprehensive plan and consider a handful of additional action and informational items.

If farmers markets have taken on a bourgeois feel with their $6 goat cheese rounds and $15-a-pound shiitake mushrooms, consumers may be surprised to learn that basic fruits and vegetables, even those organically and sustainably grown, compare in price to supermarkets.

Town of Amherst water and sewer rates increased under a three-year hike that began as of July 1, the result of less use by high-volume customers and drought restrictions, among other things.

Imagine a stretched-out flame more than 20 feet long. Now imagine the tips of fire painting thousands of pots, some several feet tall, others just a few inches.

The job creation rate in Amherst County in the past 12 months has kept pace with most of Region 2000, which has led the state in job growth for several months this year.

Most 16-year-old boys spend their summer days dreaming of their first car, lounging at the pool or beach, or chasing after 16-year-old girls. 

After years in the dark and in silence, the former Pappy’s restaurant building in the Ambriar Shopping Center is alive again.

AMHERST — Jealousy over a 17-year-old girl may have escalated into the slaying of a 19-year-old Naola man this spring.

Despite a bumpy start due to rising costs of fuel and concrete, the Amherst Town Council still is striving to find a firm to lengthen sidewalks on South Main Street.

Brighter nights are ahead for Old Town Madison Heights.

It’s barely past 9 a.m. on July 25, but Morris Orchard in Monroe is already bursting with life.

An argument is emerging between some Amherst County residents and the City of Lynchburg.

Amherst County and the Friends of the Historic Amherst Station have received a $220,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Transportation to continue the reconstruction of the old depot for use as a visitor’s center.

Amherst County officials are looking to fill two seats on the Planning Commission.

Though she has an indoor job, Crystal McGlinchey often uses brute strength at work.

Members of the Macedonia Church families, who have been lovingly tending the tiny mountain church with its arched windows and chestnut interior, gathered there Sunday for their annual Homecoming.

Amherst County schools will join eight other Virginia school divisions in a pilot program aimed at making the college application process a little easier.

The Department of Justice has passed a consent judgment and decree with Amherst County to allow a “bailout” under the Voting Rights Act.

A developer seeking to build an affordable housing complex in Madison Heights said he will keep looking for a site after receiving mixed feedback to his original plan last week.

An agreement between the Town of Amherst and Amherst County officials could alleviate water concerns for the town.