Dick Whitehead News Today

The largest utility-scale solar farm project proposed to date in Amherst County in the Piney River area just next to the Nelson County border received the county board of supervisors’ unanimous vote of denial Tuesday.

More than a half-century after the catastrophic events of Aug. 19-20, 1969, local survivors of the remnants of Hurricane Camille still gather to remember the storm that uprooted their lives and changed the community forever.

While he was screening the films submitted for this year’s Reelout Film Festival, executive director Matt Salton noticed a number of recurring themes.

Larry Spencer was 20 in August of 1969, when when the remnants of Hurricane Camille tore through Nelson County, taking at least 114 lives with it. Another 37 remain missing.