Don’t sweat the smoke that’s hanging in the air around town–it’s from a big ol’ wildfire down in NC. I was in NC earlier this week and, believe me, things could be a lot worse here.
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Some guy trying to cross the train tracks on grounds impaled himself on the top of the spiked, 6′ tall fence designed to keep pedestrians off the tracks. #
Progress owner Media General is having a hard time paying its debt. #
A local guy by the name of Peyton Williams intends to run against Rep. Robert Hurt. #
Somebody has taped a piece of paper to a statue! Alert the populace! #
Remember the UVA Law student who invented a story of how he was racially profiled and humiliated by UVA police? He’s been acquitted of honor code violations. I guess nothing is an honor code violation. #
Three months after winning his case against Fluvanna County, a court has ordered the county to pay Bryan Rothamel $37,000 in legal fees after they passed a law prohibiting him (and others) from displaying the county seal. #
Albemarle will issue an RFP for a new Crozet library. I’ll believe it when I see it. #
Amtrak’s Northeast Regional will likely have its funding renewed by Congress, continuing our daily rail service to D.C. #
Albemarle needs you to volunteer to serve on boards. ACSA, Places 29, Pantops Advisory, Planning, Police Citizens Advisory, Region Ten, and RSWA Citizens Advisory all need members. #
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That fire in NC is from a long history of fire suppression of an area that used to burn almost on a yearly basis. the coastal area from Virginia all the way to florida was once long leaf pine forest, a fire dependant ecosystem. Now we’ve let fuel loads build up for years without controlled burns and Nature is taking her due payment.
Many plants like the Venus Flytrap, (located only in coastal North and South Carolina) depend on fire to survive. What seems like a tragedy to us, is a blessing for this species and other endangered plants and animals.