The Nelson County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 at a Feb. 25 meeting to not accept nearly $1.7 million offered by the Department of Environmental Quality to extend public water and sewer lines from the intersection of Va. 56 and Va. 151 into Roseland.

A Schuyler man has been sentenced to serve five days in jail for stealing a donation jar for a man’s burial, but he is appealing the decision.

The Commonwealth’s 4 p.m. burning law went into effect last week, the start of spring fire season in Virginia.

The Nelson County Board of Supervisors decided at its Feb. 16 meeting to wait for further information on funding before making a decision on whether or not to extend a public waterline from the intersection of Va. 151 and Va. 56 into Roseland to address groundwater contamination issues.

The Nelson County Public School system could see less state money in the budget than expected for the 2010-11 school year.

The Nelson County School Board decided last week to add 20 more minutes of class time to the end of every school day from now until the end of June to help make up the 13 school days Nelson County Public School students have missed so far this year due to weather and road conditions.

The first eater at the Piney River Volunteer Fire Department’s annual chitterling dinner fundraiser arrived about 9 a.m. Saturday, well ahead of the traditional noon starting time that heralds a six-hour feast.

Nelson County Public Schools students haven’t seen the inside of a classroom since January because of the snowy weather and icy roads that have plagued Nelson County for the past three weeks, making it the longest stretch of days that classes have been canceled for the past seven years.

The Nelson County School Board approved more cuts to the proposed 2010-11 budget, reducing the deficit from more than $900,000 to $883,000.

At least one member of the General Assembly agrees that the state needs to increase its gasoline tax to keep the highway trust fund from going broke. But that doesn’t mean he has been able to sell the idea to tax-averse Republicans who dominate the House of Delegates.

The number of earmarks in the federal budget has dropped since last year, but that’s not the full story.

The other shoe dropped in Richmond last week, and it was a 12EEE, heavy-duty work boot.

Virginia could be on the verge of celebrating the days of the old Wild West. That’s because a State Senate committee has approved legislation that would allow bars to admit people carrying concealed weapons.

Local school boards have chafed under the thumb of politicians in Richmond for decades, having to implement one unfunded mandate or instructional policy after another hoisted upon them by office-bound bureaucrats.

Ethics investigations in the General Assembly have generally been one of the best-kept secrets in the legislature. A citizen or lawmaker can file what he or she believes to be a legitimate complaint about a conflict of interest, for example, and that’s the last anyone beyond the ethics panel hears of it.

Nelson weddings for week of July 31, 2008

The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office has asked for the public’s help in finding a man wanted on several charges.

A grease fire has shut down the McDonald’s at the intersection of Callohill Drive and U.S. 29 in Lovingston today for an indefinite amount of time, authorities said.

The snowfall that continues this morning has caused more power outages, knocking out 11,000 meters within the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative, an increase of about 6,000 since Friday night.

Nelson County emergency services officials are preparing for the worst.

For the Nelson Govs boys basketball team, last Wednesday’s 47-44 victory over visiting Amherst was what they hoped to be a sign of things to come.