The Nelson County Planning Commission on Dec. 17 recommended that the county supervisors amend the county’s zoning ordinance on to include the definition of a “wood yard.”

The Nelson County Planning Commission recommended in a Dec. 17 meeting that the county supervisors approve a request by one of the supervisors to rezone nearly three acres of land near the intersection of Rockfish Valley Highway and Tanbark Drive in Afton, from residential to agricultural.

FABER — At 6:30 each morning, the 15 monastic residents at the Synchronicity Foundation, a spiritual community in Nelson County, emerge from their small brown trailers to walk the mountain.

Hundreds flocked to “Bethlehem Alive” at Hebron Baptist Church in Afton, one of the longest-running such “village” productions in the United States. Volunteers re-created 1st century Bethlehem, even in frigid and sometimes rainy weather.

Ineffective play at both ends of the court landed Nelson (2-2) a 38-33 loss to Wilson Memorial at home Dec. 12.

FABER — Gathered on a breezy day and nestled into pastoral confines on the cusp of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a spiritual community bade love and farewell to a Nelson County father and daughter who died in the Mumbai terrorist attacks last month in India.

School leaders in our area were scheduled to be in Mumbai this week.

FABER — A Nelson County woman whose husband and 13-year-old daughter were killed last week in terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, said she sends the terrorists her “love, forgiveness and compassion.”

The bodies of two Nelson County residents killed in last week’s Mumbai terrorist attack will be returned home and plans for a memorial service are being made, according to a message on the Synchronicity Foundation’s Web site.

ADIAL — Members of the close-knit Synchronicity Foundation spiritual community are delving into their own way of life to grasp that two of their own from Nelson County are dead and four others wounded in terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

A six-hour search by law enforcement officers Thursday failed to locate a Lovingston man they say ran as authorities tried to arrest him on a warrant.

The Nelson girls basketball team features just four returning players and a new head coach, Debbie Whitmore.

Nelson’s season came to an end at the hands of Wilson Memorial in the Region B semifinal match Nov. 6 in Fishersville.

Polling places around the region are seeing heavy voter turnout today. Follow Election Day coverage live online.

For up-to-the-minute news about local balloting, the turnout and election results Tuesday in Amherst County/Nelson County, we will be visiting polling places and talking with voters and officials and writing what we find on a Web log.

Check out what we find all day and into the night at www.newsadvance.com.

To tell us what you see, e-mail us at /smarshall@nelsoncountytimes.com.

Nelson County Animal Control Officers are still investigating the attack of an 11-year old Tye River girl on Oct. 12 by five pit bull- and Chihuahua-mix puppies while she was jogging along Walkers Mountain Road in Arrington.

An 11-year-old girl was attacked Sunday by five young pit bull- and Chihuahua-mix dogs while she was jogging along Walkers Mountain Road in Arrington, officials say.

Organizers for the first Relay for Life in Nelson County, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, have received a groundswell of support and already have received commitments for 32 teams to participate next summer.

A new way to measure graduation rates in Virginia high schools debuted last week, and showed about 81 percent of students in Amherst and Nelson counties earned a diploma in four years.

Last year was the deadliest year in a decade for motorists driving the 18-mile stretch of Va. 151 in Nelson County from Route 833 near Brent’s Gap to Route 250 near Avon.