Household Hazardous Waste Day is an annual event for residents of Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Montgomery County and other nearby localities to drop off hazardous materials and keep them out of the landfill.
Put your good, usable latex paint to use! Reduce the amount of waste you produce by donating it for someone else to use. Do you need paint? You can pick from the donated paint - whatever you would like to use. All paint left over will be donated to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. read more »
Town of Blacksburg Public Meeting on Ordinance #1546
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 5:30 p.m.,
Roger E. Hedgepeth Council Chambers,
Blacksburg Municipal Building,
300 South Main Street, Blacksburg, VA.
The Town of Blacksburg has proposed Ordinance #1546 regarding changes to the powers and duties of the Historic or Design Review Board (HDRB). On December 8, 2009 the Town Council directed further public input be received on the Ordinance. A public input meeting has been scheduled by Town staff to discuss the proposed Ordinance changes and also to clear up misunderstandings about the changes and the existing regulations governing the Historic District. After this public meeting, Town staff will report back to Town Council about the meeting. read more »
Notice of Public Input Meeting on Proposed New Town Overlay Zoning District
Proposed Ordinance #1564 is a Zoning Ordinance Amendment that would create a New Town Overlay zoning district specifically for the area bounded by North Main Street, Turner Street NW and Prices Fork Road in the Downtown Commercial Zoning District. If adopted, the Overlay District would create regulations with incentives that would permit greater building height, uses and residential density. read more »
Great Decisions, a community discussion group focusing on foreign policy issues, is now forming in Blacksburg. This annual nationwide, nonpartisan program is prepared by the Foreign Policy Association (New York) and has been offered for the past 56 years. The program is free and open to the public and is being sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, Virginia , again this year. A study guide is available ($16.50) which provides impartial, thought-provoking analyses of 8 issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today. (Also, a copy of the study guide will be on reserve in the Blacksburg Library.) The topics selected for discussion this year are the following: read more »
Christmas tree collection is available to all Town of Blacksburg Refuse and Recycling customers. Collection will begin January 4 and continue through the first two weeks of January. Trees that are collected will be chipped, and used as an alternate fuel source.
Christmas Tree Collection Guidelines
-- Place your cut tree at the curb before 7:00 a.m. on Monday, January 11, 2010 to ensure pickup -- Trees and greenery must be free of all decorations and wire read more »
Town of Blacksburg Administrative Offices Closed December 24 - 25 and January 1.
Blacksburg Transit Blacksburg: On break service December 18 - January 18 with no service December 25 and January 1. Visit http://www.btransit.org for more information. read more »
All Town of Blacksburg administrative offices will be closed Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28. Other services will operate during the following hours:
Blacksburg Transit Operating on Break Schedule Saturday, November 21 ˆ Saturday, November 28, with no service on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 26,
This is a message from Blacksburg Alert, a public notification service of the Town of Blacksburg.
No Trash Collection Thursday, November 26
There will be no trash collection in the NE Quadrant on Thursday, November 26th. Makeup service will be on Saturday, November 28th. Please have your trash and recycling at the curb by 7:00 am.
For more information, call the Waste Reduction and Recycling Office at 540-961-1806.
I went to a meet and greet at Bull and Bones last night. Three Town Council candidates were there: Krisha Chachra, Tom Rogers, and Greg Fansler. I had a chance to talk to all three one on one, and I was impressed with their enthusiasm for Blacksburg and their desire to preserve and maintain what makes Blacksburg "a special place" while at the same time having realistic and achievable goals for solving some of Blacksburg's long term problems.
In a lively two hour discussion last night, the nine candidates for Town Council answered a wide range of questions about their views and ideas for the Town of Blacksburg.
The meeting was moderated by Beth Obenshain of the New River Land Trust, and written questions were submitted by the audience. This was a good format, as it kept the questions short and to the point.
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There is no Thursday night Coffee with the Candidates this week, but there is a meeting at the the Graduate Life Center (aka Donaldson Brown) (Wednesday).
Beth Obenshain of the New River Land Trust will be the evening's moderator. read more »
As I listen to more and more of the candidates running for Town Council, I become more and more convinced that business is the future of Blacksburg, not the University. And I mean that in a good way, for both Tech and the Town. Blacksburg is a college town, and will always be a college town. Having a nationally ranked football team has been good for Tech and good for the town, including town businesses.
But the university has been struggling with budget cuts for years, and is now looking at another round of 15% budget cuts. Meanwhile, out in the CRC business park, more than 200 businesses employ over 2200 people--in total, more jobs than the entire university. And many of those businesses are fast growing, high tech enterprises that are hiring. read more »
I went to Krisha Chachra's Coffee with the Candidates meeting last night at Easy Chair Coffee Shop. I have spoken with five candidates so far, and Ms Chachra is articulate, energetic, and has more solid ideas that any of the other candidates. She was able to describe and support her ideas in detail, and she believes that Blacksburg has a really bright future ahead, but wants to help ensure that with a focus on continuing to develop a community that is appealing to young professionals, that has a wide variety of office space available, and that has a wide array of affordable housing.
Be at the Easy Chair Coffee Shop at the University Mall this evening if you want to hear from Krisha Chachra about her interest in serving on Town Council.
