Posts by Abby Dufour

On April 21st, 2021, VA Governor Ralph Northam signed House Bill 3212 and Senate Bill 1406 making Virginia the first southern state to legalize the possession and use of marijuana by adults 21 years old and older.

March is International Women’s Day Month. In this story, I wanted to talk about four influential women in American History.

Every year March is designated Women’s History Month. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions to American history. 

Now 77 years old, Angela Davis is someone who has inspired so many people and still continues to do so; fighting for civil rights and other social issues for the 5 decades. 

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer worked tirelessly to affirm the experiences of exploited Black people of the deep south whose stories were forgotten; rising from humble beginnings in Mississippi to become one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices of the civil and voting rights movements and a leader in the efforts for greater economic opportunities for African Americans.

Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.

February marks the start of Black History Month, a federally recognized celebration of the contributions African Americans have made to this country and a time to reflect on the continued struggle for racial justice. 

Because of the spread of Covid-19 in Bath County and our surrounding areas, Bath schools are going all virtual after Thanksgiving break on November 30th. I reached out to Superintendent Sue Hirsh for more information about how this will occur, and fall sports.

At the recent Bath County Board of Supervisors meeting, the board reinstated a Tourism Director position for the county. The vote to reinstate this position in the county was unanimous at 5-0.

In this USFS update, Elizabeth shares some news about the upcoming chapter in her life.

Congressman Ben Cline hosted an hour-long telephone town hall meeting focusing on small business owners where we talked about the CARES Act and the Payment Protection Program. Carl Knoblock, who has been Virginia’s director of the United States Small Business Administration also spoke.

At the last Bath County Board of Supervisors meeting, it passed unanimously for the County Administrator, Ashton Harrison, to write a letter of intent to apply for a Community Development Block Grant with the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development to establish a small business emergency grant program. You can hear an overview of that program in this story.