Posts by Abby Dufour

April designated as National Safe Digging Month to promote safety near underground utilities. Safe digging practices are more important than ever as hospitals, healthcare providers and first responders focus on coronavirus response.

With the increased number of people tele-working and communicating with their medical providers remotely, as well as students continuing their education at home, the demand for internet connectivity has risen. MGW has partnered with several businesses/locations including WCHG Radio station in Hot Springs.

There was a public hearing held on a proposed ordinance to require short-term rental operators to register within 30 days with the commissioner of the revenue to allow for assessment and payment of transient occupancy taxes.

The Bath County’s Visitors Center bid was rejected at the last Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, March 10th. The bid was from Nielson Construction based out of Harrisonburg for 2.83 million dollars. Nielson submitted the bid in January of this year and had agreed to this price until March 15th. 

At the last Bath school board meeting, there was a public budget hearing, this year’s valedictorian and salutatorian were named, and the graduation date was set.

The Bath County Board of Supervisors tabled the decision on whether to accept a bid of 283 million dollars to consider the construction of a visitor center in Bath County. It was tabled until Tuesday, March 10th.

Berekely Clark is Bath’s new extension agent for agriculture and natural resources who will be hosting a free “Meet your new ANR Agent and Intro to Homesteading” Presentation at the Bath County Library at 4:45 pm on Wednesday, February 26th and at the Highland County Library at 6:30 pm on Thursday 2/2February 27th.

I met with former banker turned pastry chef, Leen Kim, who recently competed on the Food Network’s show Chopped Sweets and won. She is the executive pastry chef at the Omni Homestead.

The Bath County Board of Supervisors met for their first meeting of the year on January 14th at the courthouse in Warm Springs. This was the first meeting with the 3 new elected members- Lee Fry for the Valley Springs district, Roy Burns for Warm Springs, and Shelton Burns for Williamsville, along with the two previous members Eddie Hicklin and Ron Shifflett. 

The Bath County School Board had their first meeting of the year with all new members where they discussed and appointed members into the advisory committees, a change in the staff’s payroll schedule, and an employee survey.

Members of the Bath board of supervisors voted unanimously of 5-0 to adopt the Second Amendment Sanctuary Resolution. There were 19 citizens who spoke in favor of the measure, and 2 who felt the board should do more research first.

Thank you to all the current board members for all the time and hard work they have given to our schools and good luck to all the new upcoming members that will be joining in the new year!