Since the 2019-20 school year, the county's public schools' overall enrollment dropped by 536 students, down 5% to 9,285 for the present academic year.
A town policy limiting when taxpayer dollars can be put toward private residential and commercial developments – depending on how broadly it’s worded – could affect Smithfield’s 18-year plan to gradually transform the former Pinewood Heights neighborhood behind Smithfield Foods’ meatpacking plant into an industrial park.
On Monday, September 23, 2024, the City of Petersburg will host a “Greening Petersburg: Healthy Trees, Healthy Lives” Open House from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. at the Petersburg Public Library Event Center.
A committee of three Smithfield Town Council members tasked with writing a policy governing if or when taxpayer dollars can be put toward sharing in the cost of a private residential or commercial development will hold its first meeting on Sept. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the Windsor Castle manor house.
The net in-migration of younger adults has been significant enough that the median age has now fallen in 35 Virginia localities, most of them rural, most of them in Southwest and Southside.