A new fire tax district has generated $152,409 in revenue for the Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department since the county started collecting the tax in October. This is the first year Blacksburg will receive revenue from the fire tax district overwhelmingly approved by voters in the November 2020 election. The tax district was sought by the Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department to... READ MORE >
A new fire tax district has generated $152,409 in revenue for the Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department since the county started collecting the tax in October. This is the first year Blacksburg will receive revenue from the fire tax district overwhelmingly approved by voters in the November 2020 election. The tax district was sought by the Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department to... READ MORE >
Two major local industries are expanding their operations. Cherokee County Council is expected on Tuesday to approve final reading of a fee-in-lieu and special source revenue credits for Bericap, also known by the code name of Alpha1. Milliken is also planning an expansion. However, third reading of that tax break will likely won’t happen until council’s meeting in February. For... READ MORE >
Two major local industries are expanding their operations. Cherokee County Council is expected on Tuesday to approve final reading of a fee-in-lieu and special source revenue credits for Bericap, also known by the code name of Alpha1. Milliken is also planning an expansion. However, third reading of that tax break will likely won’t happen until council’s meeting in February. For... READ MORE >
Thanks to a December surge, county home starts finished slightly above the previous year’s mark. December’s 16 new home starts lifted the county to 168 home starts in 2021, two above 2020’s total, according to the Homebuilders Association of Cherokee County’s October housing report December’s home starts were six more than the same month in 2020. The average price of... READ MORE >
Limestone University sports teams will deliver Meals on Wheels routes Monday in a community service day in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Sodexo dining services will prepare a meal of baked ziti to be packaged and distributed by Limestone student-athletes to 400 homebound residents served by Meals on Wheels across Cherokee County. Limestone senior women’s administrator Hailey... READ MORE >
A new fire tax district has generated $152,409 in revenue for the Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department since the county started collecting the tax in October. This is the first year Blacksburg will receive revenue from the fire tax district overwhelmingly approved by voters in the November 2020 election. The tax district was sought by the Blacksburg Volunteer Fire Department to... READ MORE >
Two major local industries are expanding their operations. Cherokee County Council is expected on Tuesday to approve final reading of a fee-in-lieu and special source revenue credits for Bericap, also known by the code name of Alpha1. Milliken is also planning an expansion. However, third reading of that tax break will likely won’t happen until council’s meeting in February. For... READ MORE >
Limestone University sports teams will deliver Meals on Wheels routes Monday in a community service day in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Sodexo dining services will prepare a meal of baked ziti to be packaged and distributed by Limestone student-athletes to 400 homebound residents served by Meals on Wheels across Cherokee County. Limestone senior women’s administrator Hailey... READ MORE >
Thanks to a December surge, county home starts finished slightly above the previous year’s mark. December’s 16 new home starts lifted the county to 168 home starts in 2021, two above 2020’s total, according to the Homebuilders Association of Cherokee County’s October housing report December’s home starts were six more than the same month in 2020. The average price of... READ MORE >
