The 2025 General Assembly convened under unusual circumstances yesterday, amid widespread water outages in the City of Richmond resulting from failures at the City’s water treatment plant during a snowstorm earlier in the week. In
The 2025 General Assembly convened under unusual circumstances yesterday, amid widespread water outages in the City of Richmond resulting from failures at the City’s water treatment plant during a snowstorm earlier in the week. In
The Virginia World War I and World War II Commemoration Commission was created by the General Assembly to plan, develop and carry out programs and
The Virginia Tourism Corporation (VTC) and the World War I and World War II Commemoration Commission (the Commission) recently announced that applications are now available
Smart Scale is Virginia’s prioritization process to fund the right projects based on a data-driven and objective system Localities and regional entities such as metropolitan
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Dean Lynch became VACo’s sixth Executive Director when he succeeded Jim Campbell on July 1. Campbell had served as VACo Executive Director for the past
As county elected officials, administrators and staff, you are challenged daily to understand and act on a multitude of issues and topics. VACo Education recognizes
Transportation was the topic of the night at the Region 8 Meeting on June 22. The event was held at the Loudoun County Public Schools
After years of steady inflows, the rate for retirement contributions by public pension employees has increased and is expected to continue rising. U.S. states enacted
Have you made your room reservations for VACo’s 2016 Annual Conference? The Omni Homestead Room Reservation forms were sent by email to VACo Board of
The 2016 VACo Annual Conference logo was created to represent the theme chosen by the Conference Planning Committee: “Building Bridges: Connect, Collaborate, Innovate.”
Slone’s Grist Mill Slone’s Grist Mill was built by the Slone family between 1880 and 1890 in the Turner’s Creek section of Franklin County, VA,
In the early evening of June 1, Henrico County dedicated its latest public project – the new Varina Area Library. A crowd of more than
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