Arrington man gets 20 years for fatal shooting.

An over-turned box truck tied up traffic along the southbound lanes of U.S. 29 in Nelson County for two hours this morning.

The Nelson County School Board finalized their $23.6 million budget for the 2008-2009 school year after cutting an additional $364,687 at their April 10 meeting.

In December, Houston Roberts, 21, of Tyro, replaced Eddie Embrey as the Nelson County Forestry Technician. The Nelson County Times sat down with Roberts last week to talk about his experiences in the forestry department and his new job.

“We get a big clutch hit from Bryant Kidwell, who I think had three at-bats coming into this game…all season, and he gets the game-winning RBI,” Gov coach Scott McGarry said. “The last two Friday’s we’ve had undefeated first-place teams in the Dogwood on this field, and they’ve both gone home on long trips after a loss.”

As I helped Segars unload his 16-foot down-river kayak, he asked me twice if I was in shape. I must have looked like I just rolled out of bed in my t-shirt and baggy sweatpants. As I cheerfully assured him I’d been training for half-marathon run I began to worry a bit.

Could this guy be more competitive than me, who can’t stand to lose even a game of Battleship?

Nelson County’s general fund budget for fiscal year 2009 is $29.9 million. 

Dennis and Cathy Hunt, of Amherst, spent the past two years turning the old Rockfish Valley School into the Dogwood Restaurant, which opened in Nellysford along Virginia 151 in February.

By 9:30 a.m. on March 29, 12 people had signed up to pick up trash with Keep Nelson Beautiful along Oak Ridge Road in Nelson County.

“A lot of people considered her a second mother,” friend Erin Hughey-Commers said. “I certainly had that experience with her.”

Nine students competed in the Nelson County Public Schools Division Spelling Bee on March 20, held at Nelson County Middle School.

In January, the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library held a contest for teens ages 12-18 to make a video promoting “The Big Read.”
Schuyler resident Helen “Heddy” Hunt, 16, won third place in the contest that this year encouraged students nationwide to read Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Nelson County’s Crabtree Falls tragically claimed another life Saturday afternoon, despite the ominous warnings that dot the cliffs and waterfall cascades in the area.

Lancer head football coach Scott Abell said today that he has been offered, and plans to accept, a coaching position at Washington & Lee University.

Recently hired as an evidence technician, Joe Flamini was assigned to get rid of eight vehicles — once evidence in criminal cases — parked in a chain-link pen near the sheriff’s office.

An initial survey of half a dozen community centers around the county reveals millions are needed for repairs

The Nelson County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Feb. 28 to advertise the new tax rate at $.59 per $100 of assessed value.

Of the Jewish families living in Haltern in 1938, Lebenstein was the only one to survive the Holocaust.