The town of Appomattox will examine a tourism-sharing proposal with Lynchburg, but likely won’t make a final decision until next month.

APPOMATTOX — Most citizens who spoke at a public hearing Wednesday in Appomattox oppose any changes to laws regulating hound hunting in the state and said existing regulations should be better-enforced.

Questions have been raised in recent years about the amount of water available for Town of Appomattox customers through its aging municipal well system, which has been stressed by drought and over-pumping.

Unleashing a new triple-option offense implemented by first-year coach Ben Martin, a former assistant at Amherst, Appomattox’s football team passed its first test, beating Buckingham 26-6 Friday night at home despite passing the ball just three times.

The ins and outs of No Child Left Behind can be dizzying for parents and educators alike.
Each year 29 benchmarks must be met, each year pass rates get higher and each year schools that do not meet even one benchmark by a slim margin can be labeled as not making Adequate Yearly Progress.

A majority of Lynchburg-area schools met the increasing standards set by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, according to figures released by the Virginia Department of Education on Wednesday.
About 63 percent of public schools in Lynchburg and the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell and Nelson made what is known as Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP.
Statewide, 74 percent of Virginia’s public schools met the standards, up from last year’s 72 percent.

Consumers drive the American economy. So how are they doing behind the wheel in Central Virginia?
A look at taxable sales in the Lynchburg region during the first six months of this year show that Region 2000 is faring better than the state as a whole.

A unified council agreed that the nation reunited in the town of Appomattox. On Monday, Town Council members unanimously accepted a design for new welcome signs bearing the slogan, “Appomattox, Where Our Nation Reunited,” which is shared with signs marking Appomattox County limits.

A fire that destroyed part of an Appomattox County home Monday night was the fourth in a series of fire calls that day to the same residence, according to Virginia State Police.

No charges are expected in the Wednesday evening wreck that claimed the life of an Appomattox child, according to State Police.

Officials at Virginia’s Region 2000 partnership are keeping an eye on where high-speed Internet access is available.

There may not be a regional mass transportation network outside the city of Lynchburg, but a small company in Appomattox County wants that to change this summer.