Project GROWS celebrates efforts of Laura Faircloth
Published Sunday, May. 23, 2021, 9:01 am
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Laura Faircloth. Photo courtesy Project GROWS.
After four years leading the growing cycles of tillage, planting, cultivation and harvest on The Farm at Project GROWS, Laura Faircloth, director of farm operations, is stepping down as she moves into a position serving with Piedmont Community College Workforce Services Division as a career coach.
During her tenure with Project GROWS, Faircloth piloted the growth and impact of the 10-acre educational and production farm through her leadership with community partnerships. In her work with schools and service agencies, Faircloth led the Project GROWS team to support food security programs serving young families, seniors, and a Community Supported A
This is a copy of a letter I sent to the Staunton City Council:
Frankly I am struggling for words to address the Staunton City Council. Disappointment is inadequate. You have had three weeks since you received the letter from the ACLU and two other organizations regarding your silencing of citizen voices. I have written you several times, as many others have regarding this issue. I’ve called in on that fateful April 8 when you chose to end call-in communication. I appeared per your demand at the last City Council meeting, even though it was a hardship to do so. Yet my voice and the voices of many others are prevented from being heard. That you did not take up this issue and resolve it tonight is shameful. Instead of building community you are destroying it!
Melissa Eldridge
Melissa Eldridge is a Taunton resident.
I want to thank City Council candidate Kelly Dooner for her efforts to clean up Taunton. I admire her devotion to our city. I like that she is always ready to roll up her sleeves to pitch in.
Dooner will make a great addition to the Taunton City Council.
Melissa Eldridge
2021 Virginia GOP convention to be held this Saturday The Virginia GOP will have an unassembled convention on Saturday. Party delegates will cast ballots to choose a nominee for governor, Lt. governor and attorney general. (Source: WHSV) By WHSV s Kyle Rogers and the Associated Press | May 6, 2021 at 10:07 PM EDT - Updated May 6 at 10:07 PM
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Virginia GOP will have an unassembled convention on Saturday, May 8, in which delegates who preregistered will choose a nominee for governor, Lt. governor and attorney general.
This convention will use a ranked-choice voting method.
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TAUNTON Racial justice activist CJ Daye has announced another run for Taunton City Council.
The 39-year-old dental practice area manager is a founding member of Taunton Diversity Network. He is a 30-year resident of Taunton who met his wife in the city and whose two children attend Taunton Public Schools. I have grown up and laid down roots down here. This is my community, my home, he wrote in a statement. Now there is a whole new generation of Tauntonians a generation that needs all of us to make the best version of Taunton we can for them.
If elected, Daye said he will focus on making it easier for small businesses to open in Taunton; ensuring Taunton s youth have a voice and that they are raised to be leaders; pushing for equity, diversity and inclusion in Taunton s government, schools and services; and revitalizing areas of the city that he says have been overlooked.