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.

Power was restored to more than 13,000 Central Virginia Electric Cooperative customers by late Sunday, according to a company spokesman.

About 11,000 Central Virginia Electric Cooperative customers lost power this morning when a transmission line failed that supplies multiple CVEC substations, an official said.

Nelson County Emergency Services Coordinator Ray Uttaro was, unwittingly, precisely in the right place Monday morning when high waters rose in much of Nelson County.

The U.S. Census Bureau is planning to hire temporary, part-time census takers for the 2010 Census in Nelson County.

Nelson County Relay for Life will be conduct an Honorary Survivor/ Honorary Caregiver ceremony at 7 p.m. Jan. 5 at the Nelson County High School auditorium.

Crime reports for December 24, 2009

Closings and delays from WSLS 10.

Nelson County’s Blue Ridge Medical Center will get $5 million in federal stimulus money to help treat increasing numbers of low-income and uninsured patients, the White House announced Wednesday.

A Meals on Wheels program for Amherst and Nelson counties is seeking clients who could use a hot meal, as well as volunteers to help deliver them.

With Tuesday’s election in the history books, one Republican candidate for Congress in 2010 isn’t wasting time getting to know the 5th District.

A 2,000-plus acre farm in Nelson County valued at $15.5 million filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, a day before it was scheduled to go up for public auction on the steps of the Lovingston courthouse.

In the only local contested race in Nelson County, Democratic incumbent Connie Brennan won the Central District seat on the Nelson County Board of Supervisors.

The Nelson County Planning Commission voted 4-1 to recommend the Nelson County Board of Supervisors deny a special use permit for an Afton couple to operate a public garage on their property near the intersection of Greenfield and Taylor Creek roads.

Nelson County residents began work last week to revive the Lions Club, a volunteer service organization that has been dormant for the past three years in the county after more than a decade of activity.

This Nov. 3, along with voting for the next governor of Virginia, Nelson County residents will have the chance to vote for candidates for six local seats.

Connie Brennan, of Faber, has announced that she will again run for a seat on the Nelson County Board of Supervisors.

This story originally appeared in the Aug. 21, 1969, edition of the Nelson County Times.

Forty years ago this week, the remnants of Hurricane Camille ripped through Nelson County and surrounding areas, devastating homes, tearing apart roadways, washing away bridges and killing more than 120 county residents.

Four decades have done little to clear up the identities of eight bodies found in and near Nelson County in the aftermath of the destruction caused by the remnants of Hurricane Camille.

Looking at Davis Creek today, it is hard to reconcile the little waterway with the monstrosity that raged over one night in August 1969.

One of the victims of a weekend fire in Lovingston died Tuesday night, and the other is still in bad condition, a family member said Thursday.

Madison Heights gets all kinds. First, a goat. Now a peacock.