TCV Staff

TCV Staff

Louisa Chamber hosts 41st Businessperson of the Year ceremony

Established more than 40 years ago by the Louisa County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Businessperson of the Year award honors local individuals whose exceptional business leadership leaves a lasting impact throughout the region. Recipients are nominated by Chamber members, board members and the broader community for their embodiment of the spirit of entrepreneurship.

ONGOING EVENTS

Louisa County Parks, Recreation & Tourism hosts pickleball play Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. To view the ongoing pickleball schedule or to register for a pickleball clinic please visit www.LCPRT.info or call our office at (540)-967-4420.

Blue Ridge Shores residents rally against Valley Link project

Residents impacted by the Valley Link Transmission project continue to gather and voice concerns about the proposed route and the potential threat to the community and the surrounding landscape. Updated routes were released in May, significantly increasing the proposed project’s proximity to Blue Ridge Shores residential community.

Blessed Assurance – Engaged

It is wedding season once again. In fact, according to one source, 76% of all weddings in the U.S. take place between May and October every year. I am currently engaged to officiate four weddings over the next year, and they all fall in that time frame. People are once again getting engaged and married after a hiatus during and for a couple of years after COVID. It is good to see that people are finding love and are being led to commit to another person – it’s good for them and it’s good for society.

Roadside History – Three Notch’d Road

Once upon a time there was an old Colonial road in Virginia called Three Notch’d Road; sometimes Three Chopt Road. Its route followed an 18th century trail between Richmond and the Shenandoah Valley, most likely replacing an earlier pathway used by Native Americans. The road became a mainstay for east-west settlement patterns in Central Virginia from approximately 1730 onward. By the time of the Revolution its use as a major travel route was a well-established Colonial asset as the war came to a close. Later years saw its roadbeds improved, paved, straightened and shaped for U.S. Route 250 today. Regardless, the name and trace of the old colonial road have survived west of Richmond and on U.S. Geological Survey maps. Interstate-64 mostly followed the same path except for a diversion crossing the Blue Ridge at Rockfish Gap instead of Jarman Gap. Nevertheless, the route of the Three Notch’d Road remains virtually intact and in service from Henrico County through Central Virginia and Charlottesville to Augusta County west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

JMRL moves to “finefree” operations July 1

JMRL is happy to announce that it will begin its transition into a Fine Free library system this summer, beginning July 1. This initiative marks a significant step in the Library’s ongoing commitment to removing barriers to information and fostering an accessible environment for patrons across Charlottesville, Albemarle, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson.