Posts Tagged ‘Happenings in Page County’
The EDA (economic development authority) is a powerful entity for any locality, if it is used right. It isn’t an entity that if the majority disagrees with your approach that you threaten, if you do not get your way. One question is on everyone’s mind is if the Clover deal was really such a big[.....]
The Virginia Department of Child Support Enforcement is in the same group as the RIAA, MPAA, the ACLU and PETA. They were started with good intentions but grown into hippocritical agencies. Yes I do agree that there are alot of deadbeat das who refuse to pay child support, but then there are those that cannot[.....]
Page County Va keeps going from one scandle to another There was the Landfill Gate, Danny Presgraves indictments and now Project Clover, Page County’s own Watergate. On a self proclaimed Page County Watch Blog, there is a lot of chatter about the Project. Recently in the Page News and Courier, Lowell Baughn, spokesmen member of the[.....]
Within the next year, there is going to be a battle between the Page Board of Supervisors with the Page County Economic Development Authority against the residents of Page County. The reason? The potential purchase of the Rebecca Graves Hudson property to be used as a potential industrial park property. The problem is not the[.....]
The fate of the Shenandoah Wireless Broadband Authority (SWBA) now rests in the hands of the town. At its April 28th Tuesday night meeting, SWBA’s acting chairman Bruce Arnold recommended to the town council that the five-member board be dissolved. With the board’s outstanding claims resolved and a federal audit behind it, Arnold argued that SWBA[.....]
Page County is a wonderful place to live, but it is divided by old fashion ideas set in stone and the newage thinking. It is like teasching an old dog new tricks. You can do it, but the results can be unnerving and uneventful. The County is trying to learn new things, but the problem[.....]
It is not very often that the Board of Supervisors public meetings gets packed that they have to move. Sometimes I wondered if this happens to every meeting that things would be a little different. What has drawn out the crowd at this partucular March 24th meeting was on a proposed amendment to the county[.....]
Effective Feb. 28, Danny Presgraves will no longer be the sheriff of Page County. The Board of Supervisors accepted the hand delivered letter on the Feb. 24th 2009 meeting. His health insurance will be maintained by the county until Dec. 2009. The letter is quoted in the Page News and Courier as follows: “Having been[.....]
The contraversy, the contraversy. That is all that seems to make the news here in Page County, Va. If the is no bad news, then noone wants to hear anything else. Now when it comes to politics, thats a whole new ball game. As long as the contreversy surrounding Danny Presgraves, the sheriff’s office, IBR[.....]
