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Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin made a campaign stop at T4Tactics, a firearms training facility, off Timberlake Road in Campbell County on Wednesday.

Up until 2011, Lynchburg was wholly encapsulated within the 23rd House of Delegates District and 23rd State Senate District.

Stewart Tool Company to invest $9.1M in new manufacturing facility, creating 22 new jobs in Fluvanna County Published Wednesday, May. 26, 2021, 12:05 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© niroworld – stock.adobe.com) Stewart Tool Company will invest $9.1 million to establish its first East Coast manufacturing operation in Fluvanna ...

Over a Zoom meeting Wednesday morning, a group of area legislators gave an update and briefing of the 2021 Virginia General Assembly Session at the annual "Politics and Pancakes" event hosted by the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance. The legislators gave their thoughts on the session and any expected repercussions the region may face, including the topics of COVID-19, the minimum wage, broadband and children returning to school. Sen. Steve Newman R-Lynchburg, who has attended the event for a...

Virginia’s recently approved state budget includes funding up to $250,000 for a Madison Heights project connected with the Central Virginia Training Center site that benefits an adjacent mobile home park community. Sen. Mark Peake, R-Lynchburg, said the measure is included in the state budget and credited Del. Wendell Walker, R-Lynchburg, and Del. Ronnie Campbell, R-Rockbridge, who helped secure the money for a much-needed waterline project. “I think that’s fantastic,” Peake...

ICYMI: 2021 General Assembly Mid-Session Update The General Assembly mid-session update: Hear Lynchburg Senators Steve Newman and Mark Peake and Delegates Wendell Walker and Matt Fariss discuss marijuana legalization, abolishing the death penalty, getting kids back in school, and other decisions that affect all of us.

The bill’s continued advancement this year seems to be a breakthrough on an issue lawmakers have previously been reluctant to tackle. Virginia has one of the least restrictive and policed campaign finance systems in the country, with lawmakers only barred from using campaign funds for personal use once they close out their accounts.

Virginia might change how absentee votes get counted File Photo/Don Del Rosso Early voters line up at the Fauquier County registrar’s office to cast their ballots in September. Absentee ballots get processed in one total, separate from the precincts in which voters live. I’ll tell you this, if we’re shooting rockets off into space at Wallops Island, we can figure out what precinct a voter is from. — Sen. Mark Peake (R-Lynchburg) • Adjourns: Saturday, Feb. 27 Despite l...

Michael Pope reports. As Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw said on the Senate floor, its high time Virginia does something about marijuana. He made that crack after senators started a debate about the legalization of marijuana at 4:20 in the afternoon. They approved a bill introduced by Senator Adam Ebbin, a Democrat from Alexandria that creates an independent agency to regulate the new industry. It would also create social equity licenses to make sure that communities harmed by the war on dru...

Virginia General Assembly passes bills to legalize marijuana, abolish death penalty, and more Bills that passed through the House, Senate head to the other chamber for review Tags:  Similar bills passed both the House and Senate after some debate. “Legalizing marijuana will not end the illegal activity in sales,” said Del. James Leftwich, Jr. Chesapeake (R-78). “This bill provides social equity and helps improve those communities who have been most impacted and harmed by the prohibition ...