Nelson County

Keyris Manzanares, VPM News.

Nelson County is the latest Virginia locality to sever its ties with Flock Safety.

Sheriff Mark Embery said in a statement Tuesday that his office was discontinuing its use of the company's automatic license plate readers immediately.

Embery said public concern about privacy and data misuse from a recent town hall contributed to his decision to cancel the contract.

You know, that's, that's the rhetoric he's sticking to.

In practical terms as an economist, what is, what is the path to reducing these diesel prices for our local farmers in Al- Albemarle County and Nelson County and Greene and Madison, and the people who drive trucks, construction workers and folks like that here?

Well, as long as you're involved in Iran, there is no pathway.

And that's the, the key situation.

She...

And, uh, you know, lived on Cedar Street and graduated from Nelson County High.

I mean Amherst County High.

I grew up- I graduated from Nelson County High in '75, and her in '76.

Whoa.

Cedar Street, so she, she grew up here in town.

And, um, you know, there's a lot of family connections that come in that.

As I'm, uh, as I'm walking around campaigning, talking to different people, there's a lot of connections that come in because they know my, uh, pastor, uh, they know the different people.

Scott was a veteran hiker and had started his hike in Virginia on June 15, 2011, and as he was a Civil War buff, he wanted to camp in the area to do some exploring.

had taken the trail name of stonewall which some speculate is a reference to andrew stonewall jackson who died as a result of friendly fire in 1863. the last time anyone heard from scott lilly was on july 31st 2011 when he had climbed the peak known as the priest in nelson county virginia his plan was to hitch a ride the next day and re-up on his supplies in a nearby town however he never made it and no one heard from him again Twelve days later, Scott Lilly's remains were found in a shallow grave near the shelter.

An autopsy revealed Lilly died from asphyxia by suffocation, making the manner of his death certainly a homicide.

In interviews conducted by authorities, it was said that Scott had a backpack, new Ozark hiking boots, an Appalachian Trail handbook, and a Nintendo game system.

He researched the book through deep interviewing with 89 people, most of them residents.

What I found most interesting was his reporting on Nelson County, where the legacy weekly, the Nelson County Times, has fallen into the hands of Lee Enterprises and has essentially become a ghost newspaper.

People inform themselves mainly through a Facebook group which has all the positives and negatives that you can imagine.

Anyway, I was fascinated to pick up the sense of self-satisfaction and entitlement expressed by some of the residents.

I

think Central Virginia is like Orange and Charlottesville and like Nelson County.

Okay.

They

Okay.

She does know that the dirt is being trucked by VDOT from Nelson County.

So my guess would be that it's coming from the Oak Ridge area.

road project

It's sort of an ovoid shape, right? That, that, that sign.

Which is really too bad because it's mutton, much nicer than the Nelson County sign 100% ... with the [laughs] Amherst do- No, Amherst does a bang-up job with the welcome signs.

It makes Amherst look really classy compared to some of these other...

You go to some of these...

The big mound of dirt.

What's going on with that? Everyone says it's VDOT.

Maybe is it related to the Nelson County where they're redoing the turn onto Oak Ridge, and th- they're scooping the dirt there.

They needed a place to put the dirt.

But as I say to Chief Michael Kotchis in Charlottesville and and acting chief Randy Jamerson and Albemarle and Tim Longo at UVA and Joe Platania in the city and and Jim Hensley in the county.

And, you know, our folks in Nelson County and all the distant jurisdictions of the Western District, I put you in it as well.

We thank you for your protection and service of all of the Commonwealth of Virginia and in particular the Western District.

So thanks for being here.