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The majority of the Amherst County Board of Supervisors is leaning against a 2-percentage-point increase to the county’s meals tax as a potential revenue source in the upcoming fiscal year 2022 budget, a measure county staff estimates could bring in as much as $550,000 annually. Supervisors have discussed the possible tax following recent state legislation that opened up meal taxes as a way to create revenue for counties. The county’s current meals tax is 4%. Supervisor Claudia Tucker said during a Feb. 23 budget work session she favors a 2-percentage- point increase and setting asi...

Amherst County officials are working with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to open the back side of the county’s landfill in Madison Heights, a measure that will expand the land’s capacity for as long as two years. County Administrator Dean Rodgers said during the Amherst County Board of Supervisors’ Feb. 16 meeting the move gives the county more flexibility in preparing for a transition to a new transfer center on the landfill’s site on Kentmoor Farm Road in Madison Heights. The transfer station, a facility in which solid waste will be processed and dispos...

Winners, recipients are here and i thought maybe we should -- what do you think? we should introduce them. what do you think? let's do that. william swinson. thank you. [applause] ronald shera. thank you. [applause] thank you, ronald. walter marm. hi, walter. [applause] robert foley. thank you. [applause] brian thacker. [applause] thank you very much. florent broberg. thank you. [applause] david belavia. [applause]

It's like old family week, huh? a marine i like a lot. that we all know, we all love you. doing a fantastic job, four-star general, john kelly. stand up. [applause] and thank you as well to congresswoman julia brownley for being with us. thank you very much. [applause] we are especially thankful to be joined by five previous medal of honor recipients. donald ballard, harvey barnham, please stand. roger donland, thomas kelly and brian thacker. [applause]

Army chief of staff, general mark milly. mark, thank you. commander of special operations, command general, raymond thomas. thank you, raymond. and sergeant major of the army, daniel daly. thank you very much. thank you very much. i also want to recognize representative gerald connelly and representative dan newhouse. thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. we are privileged to have among us five former recipients of the congressional medal of honor, benny atkins, harvey barnum, gary bikirk, and brian thacker. and thank you all for being here. thank you. please, stand up. [ applause...