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Updated every weekday as available“Grow Local, Buy Local” Networking Event on Feb. 6
Clarke Daily News, January 30, 2012
"The Virginia Cooperative Extension and Shenandoah Valley Buy Fresh Buy Local organizations plan to host a networking event for producers and buyers on Monday, February 6, at the George Washington Hotel in Winchester. The day-long event will offer an opportunity for those who want to sell their crops and products locally, and for those who want to purchase directly from local farmers, to network directly with each other. "
Video Feature: Civil War Celebration Features Food, Carols and Reflection
Clarke Daily News, December 11, 2011
"In 1861, Christmas in Clarke County, Virginia was overshadowed by an increasingly bloody and bitter struggle that would come to be known as the American Civil War. On Saturday evening, over 75 people gathered to celebrate the joy of the holiday season and to remember a conflict that freed over four million enslaved Americans and continues to affect Clarke County even today."
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Updated every week as availableLandowners Protected Almost 700 Acres in Clarke in 2011
Clarke Daily News, January 19, 2012
"Eight properties in Clarke County totaling almost 700 acres were protected by conservation easements in 2011. This brings the total of easement protected land in the county to over 20,700 acres, or 18% of the total land in the County."
Governor McDonnell Announces $1.2 million in Farmland Preservation Grants
NBC 29, January 17, 2012
"Governor Bob McDonnell today announced the distribution of $1.2 million in farmland preservation grants from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) to 13 Virginia localities. This is a significant increase from the $100,000 available last fiscal year for state matching funds. Localities must use the grant monies to preserve farmland within their boundaries through local Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) programs. PDR programs compensate landowners who permanently preserve their land by voluntarily placing a perpetual conservation easement on it. "
Albemarle, Clarke, and Fauquier were among the counties to receive funding.
Bouffault Calls Construction RFP “Cart Before the Horse”
Clarke Daily News, December 2, 2011
"As the current Clarke County School Board winds down its term in office, the five member panel’s legacy will largely be defined by two items; construction of the new Clarke County High School and the contentious path that it followed along the way. With a little over a month left to go it appears that at least one more controversy is about to make its way onto the School Board’s December agenda."
Virginia woman recognized for innovative environmental leadership
Clarke Daily News, November 16, 2011
"A Richmond woman who spends many of her Fall weekends at Snickers Gap in Clarke County observing the annual raptor migration has received the Audubon/Toyota TogetherGreen Fellowship. Mary Elfner, a Richmond resident, is the recipient of a national conservation fellowship that will help connect local kids to nature through hands on projects. Over the next 18 months, with the support of the TogetherGreen Fellowship, Mary will work to connect school children throughout the state to the many important bird areas in Virginia through hands-on projects, school presentations and field trips."
C-Ville Weekly, November 16, 2011
"Bear spotting in Clarke County is a lot like real estate; location, location, location. While many people who live on the mountain see them frequently, other county resident’s encounters are limited to infrequent and momentary run-ins with the wild beasts."
Clarke Daily News, November 6, 2011
"Spectacular autumn weather and sensational people made Clarke County an extraordinary place to be on Saturday. Communities of all kinds gathered from one end of the County to the other for no reason other than to soak in the sunshine and enjoy each other’s company on a made-to-order fall day."
Unofficial Election Results – Clarke County
Clarke Daily News, November 8, 2011
"Results for local elections"
Archaeologist claims 12,000-year-old solstice site in Clarke County
Clarke Daily News, October 23, 2011
"Bear’s Den Rock has captured the attention of travelers in the northern Shenandoah Valley since colonial times and for thousands of years before by the indigenous people who hunted and fished in the region. Now, a local archaeologist believes that the prominent outcrop just south of Virginia’s Route 7 in Clarke County is a part of a larger 12,000 year old celestial calendar used by Native Americans to mark the changing of the seasons."
Clarke receives $120K from Virginia Land Conservation Foundation
Clarke Daily News, October 6, 2011
"Last week Governor Bob McDonnell announced 17 grants totaling $2.4 million dollars awarded by the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, a state land conservation board. The grants will help add 2,234 acres toward Gov. McDonnell’s goal of preserving 400,000 acres by 2014. Twenty-seven applications were received, with grant requests totaling nearly $5.5 million. Two Clarke County properties were among the award winners; Arkfeld Farm and Moore and Dorsey, Bell and Johnson tracts, both through the Clarke County Easement Authority."
Clarke Planning Administrator Sets Sail Towards a New Shore
Clarke Daily News, September 26, 2011
"Clarke County planning administrator Chuck Johnston has, arguably, had the largest of any hand over the last twenty years in shaping what Clarke County will look like for generations to come."
