BEDFORD — In a step along a mutual path to usher in broadband service to rural areas of Central Virginia, Bedford and Amherst counties are seeking to partner with DigitalBridge Communications Corporation.

AMHERST — Patricia Tyree had just started her 80-paper route for The News & Advance about 4 a.m. Monday when she turned onto Wagon Trail Road off Buffalo Springs Turnpike in Pedlar Mills.

The 84 Lumber store in Madison Heights is opening again and bringing 12 jobs with it.

A 15-percent reduction in Amherst County department budgets would translate to across-the-board personnel cuts, salary reductions and a thorough slashing of public services, the county administrator says.

Times have changed since Donald Wood’s first day working for Amherst County in 1962.

Amherst County residents will see a slight increase in their sewer and water rates beginning in January.

ALTAVISTA — The “Cupid Shuffle” blared through loudspeakers as cheerleaders and football players kicked up their heels at the Altavista Combined School pep rally Friday. 

AMHERST — Wind turbines may soon be turning in Amherst County.

In 2007, Jeff Bibb attended Dixon’s Gun Makers Fair in Kempton, Pa., with a friend.

Members of the Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority, along with a number of local officials, gathered Friday for the official groundbreaking of the Amherst County Adult Detention Center in Madison Heights.

The Amherst County School Board is already preparing to figure out the district’s next budget, setting a series of workshops and also planning to meet with legislators and county supervisors next month.

The Amherst Board of Supervisors sought public opinion Tuesday night on whether to allow wind turbines in the county, but delayed making any decisions.

AMHERST — The town of Amherst and Witco Inc., the operator of local Quik-E Foods stores, agreed Monday to pay a former town homeowner $75,000 to settle a lawsuit over a 2004 sewage backup.

An Amherst man was killed after four vehicles struck him as he tried to cross Interstate 581 Sunday, police said.

The biosolids monitor for Amherst County took issue Tuesday with the Board of Supervisors over its attempt to prevent the spreading of treated sludge on farmland near the Blue Ridge Railway Trail.