Buckingham County News

Unemployment has nearly doubled in Charlottesville and surrounding counties in the last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Virginia Employment Commission.

The Hatton Ferry crossed the James River for the final time Sunday on the state's dime.

First responders from the town of Orange, Gordonsville and Orange County are now training together in a new effort to save lives.

For more than 130 years, ferrymen have jammed poles into the James River's gravelly shallows to push the Hatton Ferry slowly across to other side.

Buckingham County postal workers have set up a retail van for people who used the recently burned down New Canton Post Office.

A small community in Buckingham County is now without a post office. Late last week, a disastrous fire tore through the little building in New Canton.

SWEETHEARTS Morriss and Audrey Burrage toasted their 65th wedding anniversary yesterday, reminiscing about their time in the RAF.

A Buckingham county sheriff's deputy was taken to the hospital after his cruiser was t-boned on Route 20 this morning.

For this week's cover story , J. Tobias Beard climbs aboard the James River Rambler, an excursion train for true railfans.

Some people really love trains. Railfans they call themselves. Train buffs. What the railway workers sometimes derogatorily call foamers because they foam at the mouth when they see a train.

There's still time to sign up for the 10th Annual James River Regional Cleanup to be held June 13.

Twenty-two road and transit projects in the Charlot-tesville region will receive more than $16.7 million in federal economic stimulus funding.

The people who build and repair Dominion Virginia Power plants today challenged the people who own them to hire more state workers for the jobs.

The State Corporation Commission has set the schedule for public participation in each of the five cases involving rate changes proposed by Dominion Virginia Power.

Jason Aigeldinger's death last year has mystified his family, and they plan to erect a billboard alongside U.S. 29 in Madison Heights near Virginia 130 to ask witnesses to help them find an answer.

A longtime Buckingham County supervisor with a history of legal and tax problems now faces a criminal charge.

New dropout rates released by the Virginia Department of Education last week showed that Nelson County High School has one of the lowest dropout rates in the Central Virginia region.

The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Southside Virginia from Buckingham County to Danville and Pittsylvania County and into Caswell County, N.C. The advisory is in effect until 9 p.m. today, April 3, with sustained winds ranging from 15 to 25 miles per hour and gusts expected to reach 50 miles per hour, said Anita Silverman, ...

RICHMOND, March 31 a ' Dominion Virginia Power is seeking to raise electricity rates 6.9 percent during the next 14 months to pay for equipment, salaries, plant construction and conservation projects.

YOUR BILL Herea s what will happen to electricity bills if Dominion Virginia Powera s proposed rate changes are approved.