Learning from our past

2008: The developer of the Forest Lakes Shops and the Forest Lakes residential community in Northern Albemarle is working toward bringing a commercial development to Ruckersville.
A representative of Charlottesville’s KG Associates - formerly the Kessler Group - is requesting a rezoning of more than 16 acres stretching southward down Route 29 from its intersection with Route 607.
The development - to be called Midway Corner—will consist of “smaller retail” shops and office space,“ says Michael Barnes, whose job is to guide KG Associates’ clients through the maze of bureaucratic approvals.

2004: A passing lightning storm provided a prolonged delay. William Monroe pitcher Lindsey Lam supplied the strikes- and plenty of them. Lam found her pitching groove early and finished with 13 strikeouts as the Greene Dragons defeated Orange County 4-1, en route to the Jefferson District softball tournament championship at Western Albemarle. WMHS has won back to back district tourney titles. “I’m so proud of Lindsey- she threw a great ballgame,“ said William Monroe coach Sid Trimmer. “I’m very confident in both of our pitchers (Lam and Amber Collier) and the blessed part about it is that they stand behind each other and cheer each other on.”

1999: The Greene County Sheriff’s Office has one of the highest crime clearances rates in the state, according to new statistics released by the Virginia State Police. Crime in Virginia statistics for 198 were recently released by the state and show Greene County leading the local are in the percentage of major felony crimes solved. In 1998, 17 Greene police officers made 719 major felony arrests, an average of 42 per officer. The Sheriff’s office cleared or solved 53.37 of the reported felonies, besting the seven area counties. Those counties had clearance rates including: Orange, 38.82 percent; Buckingham, 29.59 percent; Culpeper, 29.23 percent; and Fluvanna, 26.42 percent.

1984: Ending 28 years with the Greene County Public Schools, Lucile L. Morris has decided to retire from her position as elementary supervisor next month.
“I’ve had a very satisfying career,“ says the 64 year old. “I’ve had the support of fellow administrators and parents. And as a rule, I’ve gotten along well with everybody.‘
Having been “born and raised” in Missouri, Morris had her first contact with Greene County Schools in 1940. She had just graduated form Eastern Mennonite Junior College in Harrisonburg and was living with her parents in Pennsylvania when she heard of a teaching position in Greene County.

1949: Whitsunday, June 5, this year will be marked in Episcopal churches in various ways to commemorate of the first use if the Book of Common Prayer in English. In some churches or Sunday school there will be a specially prepared pageant; in all there will be appropriate prayers and other observations. It is an event not merely of interest to the Episcopal Church or the Angelican Communion, but of the importance of the life of all Protestant Christendom within the Anglo-Saxon race. It recalls the introduction of worship “in a language understood of the people,“ to a nation who had not had the Bible of their common worship in a language they could understand for more then 450 years.