Highland County News

WAYNESBORO - Residents and concerned citizens are invited to attend a downtown visioning session Dec.

Highland High School was recently recognized as having the highest on-time graduation rate in Virginia.

" A Bush administration decision to remove a flying squirrel that dates back to the Ice Age from the endangered species list was challenged Thursday when environmental groups sued to restore the animal to protected status.

The on-time graduation rate for high school students in Culpeper County Public Schools has made significant improvement over last year.

On a recent evening at Buttermilk Spring Barn, Nancy Beverage was ready to do some flatfooting.

The Virginia Department of Education says the on-time graduation rate for public high school students who were first-time ninth-graders in 2005-06 was one percentage point higher than that of the previous year's class.

About 83 percent of students in the class of 2009 graduated after four years of high school.

SCC ) has rescheduled a hearing to determine whether a wind energy company has complied with pre-construction conditions regarding protection of historic resources.

Virginia officials have long discussed placing wind turbines off the coast, but the first towers in the region are likely to appear farther south - in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound.

In Tuesday night's TV3/News Leader debate between candidates in the 20th District, a viewer asked why there had been no live debates in Staunton.

The developers of a wind farm in Highland County have taken preliminary steps to assess the project's impact on a Civil War battlefield, a state agency said Friday.

Bell's challenger in the race for the 20th district, Erik Curren, unveiled his plans to create jobs if elected.

The company planning an industrial wind facility on Tamarack Ridge didn't want to talk about visual impact on Camp Allegheny when it seeks approval to build the 19 gigantic turbines.

Angie Gum of Highland County spotted just the thing to impress her toothbrush-avoiding grandson at the State Fair of Virginia.

RICHMOND, Va. - A planned Highland County wind farm's visual impact on a nearby Civil War battlefield in West Virginia will be considered by Virginia regulators.

State regulators will consider the impact that a planned Highland County wind farm will have on a nearby Civil War battlefield, despite objections from the project's developer.

Above: For years, opponents of the Highland New Wind Development project Tom Brody and neighbor Laurie Berman have been fighting the placement of wind turbines on land adjacent to theirs.

The proposed wind project in Highland County has caused a major debate over the line between West Virginia and Virginia.

Construction is under way in mountainous Highland County on Virginia's first wind-powered electric generation project.

STAUNTON - Republican Dickie Bell accepted a request Thursday night from Democrat Erik Curren to participate in a series of four debates in the candidates' race for the 20th District House of Delegates seat.