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  • Joined: February 25, 2026
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PC votes to not consider TOD removal

The Louisa County Planning Commission (PC) voted 5-2 to remove the public hearing for an amendment to remove roughly 2,600 assemblages of acreages in the Technology Overlay District (TOD) — the designation initially created in April of 2023 to attract high-tech industrial development in the county — at the April 9 meeting. Cuckoo District Commissioner George Goodwin and Louisa District Commissioner Matthew Kersey were the two dissenting votes.

#TeamLCPS MVPS and Educators of the Year

Through a division-wide vote and a nomination process that involved students, LCPS staff, parents, and community members, Louisa County Public Schools recognized six certified employees and seven classified employees as their school-level Educators and #TeamLCPS MVPs of the Year on Friday, April 3. The annual announcement highlights 13 employees each year for their excellence during the school year.

Civilian Conservation Corps Company 2359

President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a deal with three million young men in 1933. He would pay them $30 monthly, plus room and board, to improve public lands, forests, parks, and respond to other environmental and infrastructure projects in the United States and its territories. The president enacted the deal by executive order. It put forth a “New Deal” to preserve the future of the American landscape and engage the young, unemployed American male of the Great Depression. The families of men in Company 2359 received $25 monthly. The remaining $5 went to the men. Additional benefits included educational and vocational opportunities. Men without high school diplomas could study and get one. The work programs in the field and in the camps were rigorous and well organized to ensure improvements in the men and in the country. “New Deal” programs however, were discontinued in 1942 as World War II swept the globe and captured many Civil Conservation Corps workers in its wake.

Be the light

We have reached that great time of the year when light has become longer than dark. It gets light earlier each morning, and the sun sets later every evening. This will continue for another 2.5 months or so and then the days will slowly begin to shorten and nights lengthen. This is how the world works based on the way that we have agreed to measure time. There are folks who each year suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder which brings on a feeling of melancholy and even depression when the nights are longer than the days. The treatment is often to use special lamps that mimic the sunlight and to sit under it for a prescribed amount of time. Our world is dark right now and people are feeling despondent because there doesn’t seem to be much light right now. Physician and wise healer, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, tells a story about the birth of the world that helps us rediscover our own light and how to shine it into our darkness. She writes, “… In the beginning, there was only the holy darkness, the Ein Sof, the source of life. And then, in the course of history, at a moment in time, this world, the world of a thousand thousand things, emerged from the heart of the holy darkness as a great ray of light. And then, perhaps because this is a Jewish story, there was an accident. And the vessels containing the light of the world, the wholeness of the world, broke. And the wholeness of the world, the light of the world, was scattered into a thousand, thousand fragments of light. And they fell into all events and all people, where they remain deeply hidden until this very day.