This week in county government; Jones, Woodward join Colsey in Louisa supervisor race; BOS preview; PC to consider utility-scale solar facility; LA Resort opponent gets another chance to make her case
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This week in county government: public meetings, June 5 through June 10
Monday, June 5
Louisa County Board of Supervisors, Public Meeting Room, Louisa County Office Building, 1 Woolfolk Ave., Louisa, 6 pm. (agenda packet, livestream) The board will convene in closed session at 5 pm.
Tuesday, June 6
Louisa County School Board, Central Office Administration Building, 953 Davis Highway, Mineral, 7 pm. (agenda, livestream)
Wednesday, June 7
Commission on Aging, Betty Queen Center, 522 Industrial Drive, Louisa, 1 pm.
Thursday, June 8
Louisa County Planning Commission, long-range planning work session, Public Meeting Room, Louisa County Office Building, 1 Woolfolk Ave., Louisa, 5 pm. (livestream) At publication time, a meeting agenda wasn't publicly available.
Louisa County Planning Commission, Public Meeting Room, Louisa County Office Building, 1 Woolfolk Ave., Louisa, 7 pm. (agenda packet, livestream)
Additional information about Louisa County’s upcoming public meetings is available here.
Interested in taking your talents to one of the county’s numerous boards and commissions? Find out more here including which boards have vacancies and how to apply.
Jones, Woodward join Colsey in Louisa District Board of Supervisors race
A current and former member of the Louisa County Planning Commission will seek the same seat on the Board of Supervisors this fall.
Greg Jones, who served on the commission from 2017 to 2020 and Manning Woodward, the man who replaced him, will both run for the Louisa District seat as independents.
Eric Purcell (I), who currently represents the district, announced in mid-March that he won’t seek re-election.
The pair join Republican Christopher Colsey in a three-man race that pits two long-time Louisa residents, Jones and Woodward, against a newcomer in Colsey.
A public school teacher in Fluvanna County who moved to Blue Ridge Shores about three years ago, Colsey held numerous positions in local government in Northern Virginia and New York. In a late April press release announcing his candidacy, he said that, as an experienced public official who holds “no Louisa County obligations to affect his objectivity,” he believes he would be “an effective and reliable representative” for the district. (Read more about Colsey’s announcement in the May 7 edition of Engage Louisa).
Jones and Woodward have both touted their deep ties to the area as reasons they should be elected. In an email to Engage Louisa, Woodward said that a lifetime in the community has given him “the ability to know where we, Louisa, have been and what direction we need to go” while Jones said in a written statement that, during his years living and working in the community, he’s built a strong connection to his potential constituents.
“With 27 years of business experience, managing personnel, working with multiple levels of business, managing resources and serving this community for almost a lifetime, I believe I have a pulse for the people I would be serving,” Jones said.
Over the last four decades, Jones has built both a family and successful career in the county. He and his wife of 41 years, Carol, have raised two sons here and established a pair of small businesses, a laundromat in the Town of Louisa and a commercial cleaning service. Jones is also a pastor at Fluvanna Community Bible Way Church in Fork Union.
Beyond his career, Jones has served in several community organizations. He’s the past president and current vice president of the Louisa branch of the NAACP, a former board member of the Louisa County Chamber of Commerce board of directors and spent 15 years coaching youth basketball.
Jones has also worked both in and with local government. In addition to his three years on the Planning Commission, he’s a member of Louisa County Public Schools’ Safe Schools Task Force, serves on LCPS Superintendent Doug Straley’s parent-community advisory committee and chairs Community Strong, a panel of local leaders that works to foster positive relationships between the community and law enforcement. After a Minneapolis police officer killed an unarmed Black man in 2020 sparking nationwide protests against police brutality, the group led an effort to equip all Louisa County sheriff’s deputies with body cameras.
If elected, Jones would be the fourth African American to serve as a Louisa supervisor and the first to represent the Louisa District. Patrick Henry District Supervisor Fitzgerald Barnes is currently the board’s only Black member.
Jones said that his diverse experience as a businessman and community leader would enable him to bring “a fresh set of eyes” to board but also mesh well with current board members.
“I already know all the BOS members pretty well and they know me. I believe we can work well together,” he said.
Jones pointed to several issues he’d focus on should he win in November including ensuring that Louisa County Public Schools has the support it needs. While the School Board directly oversees the division, the Board of Supervisors allocates its funding through the annual budget process. In the coming fiscal year, spending on local schools comprises more than 60 percent of the county’s $147 million operating budget. According to its long-range Capital Improvement Plan, the county could spend more than $80 million to expand school facilities over the next decade including $25 million for a Career and Technical Education Center as soon as next year.
“Our school division is thriving and I’m very proud that Superintendent Straley asked me to serve with his team. We must continue to help our school division moving forward especially with our CTE program growing so rapidly. We know education is the great equalizer and we want to give every student the best possible opportunity to learn,” Jones said.
Jones also said that the county needs to focus on providing elderly residents with the services they need and address the dearth of affordable housing. Supervisors have taken a small step toward increasing the availability of affordable rental units by partnering with the Fluvanna/Louisa Housing Foundation to build a 25-unit apartment complex adjacent to the Louisa County Resource Council. FLHF will own the property and rent the units to income-eligible elderly residents and essential workers. Supervisors committed $775,000 in federal grant money to the project earlier this year. Jones said the county already has “some pieces of the puzzle” in place to begin to address affordable housing and should expand on those efforts and look at what’s working in other localities.
This year’s race is Jones’ second run for local office. In 2007, he lost his bid for the Louisa supervisor seat to P.T. Spencer by just 15 votes. That race and his work on the Planning Commission deepened his interest in public service.
“That experience along with serving on the Planning Commission gave me a close-up view of how local government works. It also inspired me to want to be a greater part of building our community and making it better for all citizens,” Jones said.
Like Jones, Woodward is a Louisa native who, along with his wife Debbie, has raised two sons in the community. He spent most of his career working in his family business, Woodward Insurance Agency, before retiring in 2021 and handing the reins to his son.
Also, like Jones, Woodward has spent decades serving the county via local charities and other organizations. He’s a past president of the Jaycees, Lions Club, and the Louisa branch of the American Heart Association, a former Chamber of Commerce board member and a longtime board member and coach in Louisa Little League.
Though this is his first run for political office, Woodward is no stranger to local government. In 2020, just after winning election to the board, Purcell appointed Woodward to replace Jones on the Planning Commission. Woodward currently serves as vice chair. He has also served on the county’s Parks, Recreation and Tourism Advisory Committee.
Woodward said that after Purcell announced he wouldn’t seek re-election, he decided to pursue the seat because he saw it as an “opportunity to give back to Louisa County.”
“Louisa County is home. I was born here. I was raised here. I raised my family here. This county has blessed me and my family beyond measure. Louisa County is a special place. It is a small community filled with people with big hearts. We still care about each other in Louisa. I see running for and being on the Board of Supervisors as a calling. A calling to give back to the community that I have called home my entire life,” he said, adding that he opted to run as an independent because he wants to be “a voice for everyone.”
Woodward pointed to his work on the Planning Commission coupled with his deep roots in the county as giving him a broad perspective that would be beneficial to the board.
“Being on the Planning Commission has really opened my eyes to the need for planning in Louisa County. Working with the comprehensive plan, you are looking 40 years into the future,” he said. “With my background of living and being in Louisa County all my life, I feel that it gives me the ability to know where we, Louisa, have been and what direction we need to go in the future.”
Woodward zeroed in on several issues he intends to focus on if elected, all hot topics at recent county meetings. He said he’s heard from many residents concerned about how much they pay in local taxes—a hot button issue during this year’s budget process—and that the county needs to focus on upgrading roads and other infrastructure as it grapples with continued growth.
“Our road systems need work to handle traffic in our growth areas and (the) county at large,” Woodward said.
Traffic safety and congestion along the Route 208 corridor were points of contention when the Board of Supervisors voted earlier this year to rezone 15.2 acres just west of the Route 208 bridge for a condominium and hotel complex in the Lake Anna Growth Area. Neighbors argued that Route 208 is already clogged and dangerous and can’t handle more traffic. Woodward voted against the rezoning when the Planning Commission considered the application last fall.
Woodward also said that he’d focus on addressing concerns about stormwater runoff, a pressing issue in the Tanyard neighborhood where he resides. Tanyard, which sits on the eastern end of the Town of Louisa along Beaver Creek and Tanyard Branch, has been inundated with periodic flooding in recent years. Some community members say the flooding is a consequence of poorly planned development and insufficient development standards. Tanyard resident Vicky Harte won a seat on Louisa Town Council last year with concerns about flooding, inadequate infrastructure and uncontrolled development central issues in her campaign.
Eleven county offices are on the ballot this fall including the Louisa, Jackson and Cuckoo District Board of Supervisors and School Board seats and five constitutional offices: sheriff; commonwealth’s attorney; treasurer; commissioner of the revenue; and clerk of court. So far, only the Louisa supervisor’s race has more than one candidate. Candidates have until June 20 to file to run for local office.
BOS to consider busy agenda at June 5 meeting
After a three-week hiatus, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors will convene for its first June meeting with a busy agenda on tap including two public hearings and several action and discussion items. Check out a preview of the meeting below.
Board to consider adopting emergency water conservation ordinance: Supervisors will hold a public hearing and consider adoption of an emergency water supply ordinance proposed by the Louisa County Water Authority.
LCWA General Manager Pam Baughman told the board at its May 1 meeting that the proposed ordinance would provide the authority the ability to implement a progressive water supply conservation program in the event of a threat to the area’s water supply or a water supply shortage. Either scenario could be caused by equipment failure, natural disasters, man-made disasters, breaks or failures in the distribution system, outbreaks of water-borne diseases, and treatment process breakdowns.
“Louisa County Water Authority does not have the ability to pass a resolution for the Board of Supervisors declaring the existence or reasonable likelihood that a water supply emergency could occur,” Baughman said.
In the event of a water supply shortage or threat to the water supply, the ordinance would authorize the Board of Supervisors to declare a water supply watch, warning or emergency and empower the water authority’s general manager to implement voluntary and mandatory conservation measures throughout its service area. The measures would conserve or curtail the use of water supplied by the authority.
When a potential threat to the water supply arises, like the probability of drought, the board could declare a water supply watch, per the draft ordinance. When the water supply begins to decline due to sustained drought or other conditions, supervisors could declare a water supply warning.
Both declarations empower LCWA to implement voluntary water conservation measures, calling on customers to eliminate non-essential water uses and the waste of water. Non-essential uses include watering lawns, golf courses, and other outdoor areas, washing vehicles, and using water for recreational facilities like swimming pools. The ordinance defines the waste of water as “permitting water to escape down a street, roadway, or other surface intended for vehicle driving purposes, and/or any gutter, ditch, or other surface drain” and “failure to repair a controllable leak of water due to defective plumbing.”
In the event of a shortage of water for essential uses, supervisors could declare a water supply emergency, empowering LCWA’s general manager to impose mandatory restrictions on water use. Such restrictions could include general limits on how water is used, suspension of most new connections to the authority's water distribution system, the imposition of water rationing and a partial or complete ban on the waste of water, among other measures.
The ordinance also provides the authority enforcement mechanisms and allows it to increase rates in the event of a water supply emergency.
Currently, LCWA has some authority to impose water restrictions under the county’s drought ordinance. The ordinance empowers the authority to limit the use of water in the event of a shortage after an emergency is declared by the Board of Supervisors. LCWA and the board last used that power in October 2017 when the county faced drought conditions.
Registrar’s office readies for move: For more than two years, the Louisa County Registrar’s Office has been looking to move out of cramped quarters in the County Office Building to a more spacious abode.
Now, the office is poised to make that move.
As soon as July, the registrar’s office will relocate to 103 McDonald Street, a building adjacent to the County Office Building that formerly housed the Human Services Department. The Human Services Department moved to the Louisa County Industrial Air Park earlier this year.
The building will provide ample space for staff to accommodate voters during the 45-day early voting period and perform the daily work of administering local elections. The office will also feature an accessible dropbox for voters to drop off mail-in absentee ballots that, like the current dropbox, is under 24-hour video surveillance.
In anticipation of the office’s move, supervisors will hold a public hearing and vote to establish 103 McDonald Street as the central absentee precinct as well as a satellite early voting location ahead of the November 7 general election. Board approval will allow the county to use the office for early voting and absentee ballot drop off this fall.
Board to appropriate FY24 Operations and Maintenance Budget and CIP: Supervisors will consider a pair of resolutions appropriating the Fiscal Year 2024 Operations and Maintenance Budget and Capital Improvement Plan. Supervisors adopted the combined $188.2 million spending plan at their May 15 meeting.
The operating budget, which covers the daily costs to run county government and Louisa County Public Schools, totals more than $147 million including about $89 million for the school division and $21 million for the Louisa County Sheriff’s Office and Fire and EMS Department. According to the proposed resolution, the board plans to appropriate just under $147 million, holding back $212,000 earmarked for hiring three new sheriff’s deputies. The resolution states that the money will be allotted once the department fills its current vacancies.
The capital budget totals nearly $41.2 million with $27.5 million earmarked to bring wet utility infrastructure to the Shannon Hill Regional Business Park. An $11.59 million state grant will help offset the cost to local taxpayers.
Check out the FY24 budget here.
Board to consider resolution green-lighting engineering and design work for turf fields: As part of the FY24 Capital Improvement Plan, supervisors allotted $3.4 million for the construction of two turf fields adjacent to Louisa County Middle School. The fields will provide much-needed all-weather playing surfaces for both youth and scholastic sports.
The board will consider a resolution Monday night that permits the county to spend up to $180,000 on design and engineering work for the fields. Supervisors included in its FY23 budget $150,000 in seed money for new playing fields with about $145,000 of that still available. That money will be combined with $35,000 from the FY24 budget to cover the project’s cost.
Board to consider changing July meeting date: Supervisors will consider a resolution to change its July meeting date from Monday, July 3 to Monday, July 17.
The board typically holds meetings on the first and third Monday of each month except in July and August when the second meeting is optional. Pushing back the July meeting from the first Monday to the third allows the board to avoid potential conflicts with the July 4 holiday.
In a separate action on the consent agenda, supervisors will consider making Monday, July 3 a county holiday, providing staff with a four-day weekend.
Board to consider requesting split precinct waiver: Supervisors will consider a resolution that allows the county to formally request from the State Board of Elections a waiver to administer a split precinct for the November 7 general election. The waiver is necessary because one residence in the Mountain Road 1 precinct is in the 56th House of Delegates District while the remainder of the precinct is in the 59th House District.
To simplify election administration, the General Assembly in 2019 passed legislation requiring that precincts be wholly contained in larger state and federal legislative districts. Under state law, precincts are also required to have at least 100 registered voters. Localities must obtain a waiver from the BOE to administer a split precinct in cases where the population threshold isn ‘t met.
Other business: The board’s agenda also includes three discussion items: “dogs running at large”; consideration of advertising a public hearing on an ordinance amendment “to allow for returning of surplus real property tax revenues”; and a resolution approving a potential lease agreement with the Virginia Department of Health. There’s no information about the first two items in the meeting materials. The board packet includes a proposed resolution to approve a lease agreement with VDH for office space, but a lease has not been finalized, according to County Administrator Christian Goodwin. Goodwin said the department, which currently operates out of mobile units near the Betty Queen Center, is contemplating a move to the medical services building adjacent to the County Office Building in the Town of Louisa.
Planning Commission to consider utility-scale solar facility, roaming livestock ordinance
The Louisa County Planning Commission on Thursday night will hold a pair of public hearings. In the first, commissioners will consider whether to recommend to the Board of Supervisors approval of an up to five-megawatt utility-scale solar facility near Gordonsville. In the second, the commission will consider whether to green-light an ordinance aimed at reining in at-large livestock.
Commissioners to consider CUP for utility-scale solar facility: After deadlocking on whether to recommend approval of what would be the county’s eighth utility-scale solar site at its April meeting, the Planning Commission will consider another application from a solar developer Thursday night.
Louisa Solar 1, LLC, a subsidiary of New Energy Equity, is requesting a Conditional Use Permit to develop and operate an up to five MW utility-scale solar facility on about 43 mostly forested acres of a 118-acre tract (tmp 1-3) just east of the Louisa County-Albemarle County line in the Green Springs Voting District.
The property, owned by Benjamin Ochs, is located north of Kloeckner Road (Route 860) and zoned for agricultural use. It’s bordered by a railroad right-of-way and Kloeckner Pentaplast’s manufacturing facility to the east, a Dominion-owned electric generating facility to the southwest and property zoned for residential, agricultural, and mixed use.
According to its land use application, New Energy plans to install nearly 11,000 photovoltaic solar modules on about 22 acres of the 43 acres under lease and connect to the grid via an existing Dominion-owned distribution line and substation. The facility would be part of Dominion’s shared solar initiative, a program that allows customers to purchase a subscription for solar energy produced by a third-party provider.
Under a revised solar ordinance adopted last year, Louisa County requires utility-scale solar facilities to include a 300-foot setback with an opaque vegetative buffer. New Energy is requesting a special exception from the Board of Supervisors to include a 170 and 220-foot setback on parts of the property. According to Community Development Department staff, the applicant believes the project “contains sufficient measures to maintain or plant opaque screens around the perimeter of the project…because the project is in an area with limited visibility due to the surrounding land use and limited exposure to public rights-of-way.”
Per its transportation plan, the project would be accessed off Kloeckner Road. The applicant would be required to ask the Board of Supervisors to request that VDOT reduce the speed limit on the road to 35 miles per hour during the year-long construction period. The project would generate minimal traffic post-construction.
A fiscal impact study by Mangum Economics, conducted on the applicant’s behalf, states that the solar array would generate between $110,200 and $391,900 in local tax revenue during its 35-year lifespan depending on how the county taxes the project. The study says that, under the property’s current agricultural use, it would generate $6,820 in local taxes in the same timeframe.
Five community members attended a neighborhood meeting in April hosted by the Louisa County Community Development and the applicant. Attendees asked about where stormwater runoff would go, efforts to screen the project, and a historic home nearby, among other issues.
Regarding stormwater, a New Energy representative said that the project is located “on a slight hill towards the railroad tracks, which is where the water will flow.” The representative also said that existing mature pine trees would remain in place to help screen the solar array.
Per staff’s report, a cultural resources analysis identified an 18th century home within the project boundary. A 2017 investigation found that the home has been significantly modified since construction. It’s recorded as being part of “an area of discontinuous historic resources” and “not considered eligible for listing on the (National Register of Historic Places).”
New Energy’s project is the smallest utility-scale solar site proposed in the county to date and the second facility to be considered under the county’s revised solar ordinance. Among other restrictions, the ordinance limits large-scale solar generation to no more than three percent of the county’s land or about 9,800 acres. Supervisors have approved seven utility-scale solar sites in the last eight years, covering more than 5,000 acres.
PC to consider roaming livestock ordinance: The Planning Commission will consider whether to recommend to the Board of Supervisors approval of a draft ordinance that would make it unlawful for livestock or poultry to run at large at any time.
Several community members have complained at recent county meetings that livestock frequently roams on their property and occasionally causes damage. Under current code, the county has no way to remedy the issue.
In response to those concerns, the board asked the Agricultural/Forestal and Rural Preservation Committee to consider a draft ordinance aimed at reining in livestock that’s frequently a nuisance to neighbors. The ordinance under consideration Thursday night was recommended by the committee, which includes several members that own livestock or are otherwise involved in farming.
The proposed ordinance would make it unlawful for livestock or poultry to run at-large—meaning off the owner’s property and out of the owner’s control—at any time. People who habitually allow their livestock or poultry to roam would be subject to a $100 fine. Habitual offenders are defined as those cited for at-large farm animals three times or more in a two-year period. An additional violation within two years of the fine would constitute a Class 4 misdemeanor.
The draft ordinance states that it’s “not designed to penalize those farmers who are making a demonstrable effort to prevent their animals from leaving their property.”
LA Resort opponent gets another chance in court
A Louisa County property owner who’s asking a judge to nullify a controversial rezoning on Lake Anna has another chance to convince the court that she has a legal right to bring the suit.
Circuit Court Judge Timothy K. Sanner on Thursday gave Candace Dowling 21 days to amend her complaint challenging the Board of Supervisors’ decision earlier this year to rezone a prime piece of lakefront real estate for luxury condominiums and a hotel.
Sanner’s ruling came after County Attorney Helen Phillips filed a demurrer seeking to dismiss the case. Phillips argued that Dowling, who’s representing herself, doesn’t have standing to sue the county because her complaint fails to demonstrate that she would be uniquely harmed by the board’s action.
Sanner agreed with Phillips but said that the plaintiff could amend the suit. He told Dowling that, for the case to move forward, she must show that she would suffer particularized harm, different from that which might be experienced by the general public, and that she couldn’t argue on behalf of her neighbors.
Dowling suit’s stems from the board’s 6-1 vote at its January 17 meeting to rezone, from general commercial to Planned Unit Development, 15.2 acres just west of the Route 208 bridge in the Lake Anna Growth Area. The rezoning clears the way for LA Resort, LLC, the property’s owner, to build a mixed-use development featuring an up to 96-unit residential condominium building, a 130-key hotel, restaurant, and marina fronting Mitchell Creek, a narrow cove just south of Route 208 that’s lined with single-family homes. The board also approved a Conditional Use Permit that allows the condo building to reach 80-feet high, 20 feet taller than what’s permitted for multi-family residential structures in a PUD, but equal to what’s allowed for hotels.
Dowling and her husband, David, own a 2.66-acre parcel across Mitchell Creek Cove from the subject property. She said after the hearing that she plans to amend the suit.
In her initial 16-page filing, Dowling alleges that supervisors violated both county and state code in approving the rezoning. She argues that she and neighboring property owners “will suffer particular harm” because of the board’s action “in that our property values and privacy will be diminished, we will be subjected to increased noise and light disturbances, increased pollution of the water and will be endangered by the significant increase in boat traffic in the cove where our property exists.”
But Phillips countered that Dowling didn’t demonstrate that she would suffer special harm, but rather argued that many residents would be hurt by the board’s action. Phillips pointed to Dowling’s claim that 130 boat slips on Mitchell Creek would make the lake more dangerous and that neighbors would see their property values drop, leading to decreased revenue for the county.
Phillips wrote that, per court precedent, Dowling must meet two criteria to bring the suit: own property in close proximity to the property in question and demonstrate that she would suffer “particularized harm” to some personal or property right. She said that Dowling met the first requirement, but not the second.
“Plaintiff has satisfied the first step. However, she has not demonstrated any harm unique to her property alone,” Phillips wrote.
Phillips also challenged the style of Dowling’s complaint, which states that she’s representing herself and “similarly aggrieved parties.”
Sanner said that the initial issue with Dowling’s suit is her failure to demonstrate particularized harm and that, as a pro se litigant who isn’t a licensed attorney in Virginia, she can’t argue on behalf of her neighbors.
“If other people want to bring this case, they need to either represent themselves or hire an attorney,” he said.
In his comments from the bench, Sanner vaguely referenced recent rulings by the Virginia Supreme Court related to local land use decisions and residents’ right to sue localities. Earlier this year, SCOVA reversed a lower court ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by Hanover County property owners who sued the county over its decision to permit a Wegmans distribution center near their homes. A Hanover Circuit Court judge said the plaintiffs lacked standing, but SCOVA determined neighbors had shown that they would suffer special harm and sent the case back to the lower court for further review.
“Standing determines who may file a lawsuit — not who can win one,” Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote in the court’s opinion.
Louisa County will have 21 days to respond to Dowling’s amended complaint once it’s filed.
News roundup
Engage Louisa focuses on Louisa County government. But we recognize that we can’t cover everything and there’s plenty of other news in our neck of the woods. With that in mind, we occasionally include a roundup of links to the work of other journalists covering noteworthy events and issues that impact our community.
New Bridge Fire and EMS station opens its doors: CBS 19 News reports that Louisa County held a special ceremony on Thursday, June 1 to mark the opening of the New Bridge Fire and EMS station just east of the Lake Anna Food Lion. Read the story.
Rising rents at local mobile home park: Michael Martz of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports on rent hikes at the Six-O-Five Mobile Home Park and the difficulty finding affordable housing in Louisa County. Read the story.
Abortion rights emerge as issue in HD55 Democratic primary: Charlotte Renee Woods reports in the Richmond Times-Dispatch that a candidate’s stance on abortion rights has emerged as a point of contention in the Democratic primary in the 55th House of Delegates District. The Albemarle-centered district includes a slice of western Louisa. Read the story.
LCHS softball captures region title: John Harvey reports for the Daily Progress that the Louisa County High School softball team won its first regional title in program history with a 5-1 victory over Halifax. Read the story.
Fossil fuel-free at Living Energy Farm: In C-ville Weekly, Matt Dhillon reports on an innovative farm in Louisa County that’s off-grid and fossil fuel-free. Read the story.
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