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Piedmont News: November 26, 2025
Top Stories: Scientists discover an ancient landscape; Farmers deserve to know what’s being spread on their land; Clarke voices concerns about proposed hotel complex; and more
The Piedmont News: November 14, 2025
Top Stories: Conservation Fund acquires Oak Hill; $15.5 million in grants for VA conservation; data centers have a diesel problem; and more
The Piedmont News: November 7, 2025
Top Stories: Data center backlash swallows American politics and influences elections; VA rolls out food assistance program; incentives available for delayed haying; and more
The Piedmont News: October 31, 2025
Top Stories: cryptids to watch out for on fall hikes; the benefits of forest bathing; how data centers use NDAs to hide details; government shutdown and SNAP; and more
The Piedmont News: October 17, 2025
Top Stories: PEC launches nationally significant agrivoltaics project; data centers emerge as major election issue in VA; VGBI financial incentives available for delayed haying; and more
The Piedmont News: October 10, 2025
Top Stories: Data centers, PFAS, and “Cancer Alley”; Virginian apples, pumpkins, and fall foliage; biomarkers from Goose Creek to the Chesapeake; and more
The Piedmont News: October 3, 2025
Top Stories: Albemarle tables data center ordinance; tree canopy shrinking in Chesapeake Bay watershed; data centers threaten wildlife and electric bills; remembering conservationist Jane Goodall; and more
The Piedmont News: September 26, 2025
Top Stories: electric bills climb; celebrate National Public Lands Day; data center regulations delayed in Albemarle; huge turn-out for Loudoun transmission line hearing; and more
The Piedmont News: September 19, 2025
Top Stories: A court victory in the case to protect Wilderness Battlefield; updates in SCC Dominion rate case; Albemarle considers new data center ordinance; seeking beauty in ugly times; and more
