Every week, you hear that unemployment is going down (national average) but at the same time, you here about how a small business closes it doors, or a major corporation cuts it workforce. Worse yet, how about a school cutting jobs to meet the budget. Spiraling down. You cut education, you cut the potential for [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Layoffs
Posted: March 28, 2010 in Local IssuesTags: Add new tag, Business, Education, Employment, Small business, Unemployment, United States, Work, Workforce
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Page County Broadband Authority receives the BTOP $1.6 million
Posted: March 25, 2010 in Local IssuesTags: Add new tag, California, Counties, Education, Lord Fairfax Community College, Rural area, Shenandoah Valley, United States, Virginia
As reported last week that the BIP program was not funded but the BTOP was still being reviewed, the BTOP $1.6 million broadband infrastructure grant with an additional $412,000 applicant-provided match, has been approved, to deploy a 39-mile fiber network that will serve the four principal towns in Page County, Virginia, a rural and underserved area [...]
District 1 Supervisor to hold Town Hall meeting
Posted: March 24, 2010 in Local EventsTags: American Legion, Military, Robert Griffith, Veterans
District 1 Supervisor, Robert Griffith, will hold a Town Hall style meeting on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. The meeting will be held at the American Legion, 106 Zerkel Street at 6:30 PM. All District 1 voters (Republican, Democrat, and Independent) are invited to attend. Mr. Griffith will take questions from the attendees. For more information [...]
Hats off to Flohrline
Posted: March 20, 2010 in Local IssuesTags: Add new tag, Business, Energy, Renewable, Renewable energy, Sustainable energy, Technology, United States, Wind turbine
As most of you know, Flohrline runs the locla workforce center here in Luray. I would like to thank her for doing everything she can to prepare this community with more education. Here is her latest comment: Hats off for the people ,Who Are The Government,Now its time we do the same thing and get [...]
“Cabin” Jim Turner is planning on a weekly segment about the Page County EDA and see where they went off track. Visit Hawksbill Cabin website for the story. My question(s) up for discussion is this. Since there is a “rush” into making payments, do you think that this will now “impair” the EDA’s judgments? Also, [...]
Videos from March 16th BoS Meeting
Posted: March 18, 2010 in Local IssuesTags: Fibrowatt, page county
The videos can be watched on the Page County Citizens Website. The videos is of public comments and BoS letter of Denial.
Enough with Putting Down the Page County Citizens
Posted: March 17, 2010 in Local IssuesTags: page county, PTS
First, Dave McClure calls a few people (mainly the ones that reads this blog) filthy and now David Tong is quoted in todays paper as calling the 200 or so people who showed up at the March 2 meeting as irresponsible and gives the impression that Page County is an unfriendly business community. Page County at [...]
Board Says “Thanks, But No Thanks”
Posted: March 17, 2010 in Local IssuesTags: Board of directors, Business, Fibrowatt, page county, Shenandoah, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
By unanimous vote, the Page County Board of Supervisors decided to send a letter to Fibrowatt company thanking them for their informational effort, but telling them there was not a place for them in Page County. Many of the 200+ people that crowded into the Stanley Elementary School wore lapel stickers that said “I love [...]
