A Staff Update
At the Alliance, we started 2020 with big goals. Now, half-way through and thrown more than one curve ball, we’re still on course, albeit with some changes.
A New Planning Resource
This new tool stands to help localities understand how current trends and pressures in land-use will affect communities and natural resources now and in the future.
General Assembly Recap: What Happened in Richmond?
As always, Alliance staff tracked legislation and made advocacy trips to Richmond during the 2020 session. Your calls and emails to legislators made a difference—thank you!
Share your local story.
COVID has us interacting with our community in a whole new way and has shifted our perspectives and habits. We’ve heard lots of stories of folks finding creative ways to still ‘shop local’ and we want to hear yours.
A cost-share win!
The video highlighting a Shenandoah County agriculture best management cost-share project wins the Hermes Creative Awards Gold Winner status!
Wondering what’s next for ag? Check out VALOR.
VALOR is accepting applicants from adults in agriculture who want to develop their communication, problem solving, and critical thinking skills in the pursuit of becoming an advocate for agriculture and a leader in the industry.
What would a COVID infrastructure bill mean for I-81?
In April we teamed up with Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation and sent a letter to the Valley’s federal delegation, urging a targeted and data-driven approach to any I-81 investment.
Checking in on the farmers.
There’s no denying that COVID-19 is threatening not only all of our health, but also our livelihoods and way of life. In Rockingham County, the top ag producer in the state, there’s no way farmers, and all the businesses and households that depend on farmers for food are not hugely impacted.
Looking for your local meetings?
Great news and update on Stanley pollution permit
GREAT NEWS – on Wednesday evening we received word that Recycle Management voluntarily withdrew its permit request.