The Cameron Foundation is soliciting nominations for its two annual recognition award programs. The awards total $80,000 for nonprofit organizations within the foundation's service area of Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Hopewell and the counties of Dinwiddie, Prince George, Sussex and the portion of Chesterfield south of state Route 10. The awards will be presented at the foundation's annual awards ceremony in October.

PRINCE GEORGE—The Board of Supervisor last night approved a motion to bring former County Administrator John G. Kines Jr. back as part-time interim county administrator.

PRINCE GEORGE—The county administrator last night offered two recommendations to balance her proposed budget, which had to be cut after the Board of Supervisors rejected a property-tax rate increase. County Administrator Brenda G. Garton had included a 5-cent increase in the property-tax rate in her proposed $112.3 million financial plan for the next fiscal year. But on March 25, the board decided to keep the current rate of 80 cents per $100 of assessed value.

PRINCE GEORGE—After discussing last-minute cuts because of reduced state funds, the county School Board last night passed a $60.1 million budget that the board chairman called historic. The spending plan for the 2008-09 school year exceeds the current budget by about $7 million. It provides teachers with an average 8.74 percent salary increase, including 3 percent for cost of living. Teachers at the top of the salary scale will get bonuses. Support staff will get 5 percent increases.

The Prince George School Board will have a public hearing on its proposed school budget today. The $60.4 million spending plan proposes new teaching positions and salary increases for teachers and staff. Enrollment for next school year is projected at 6,300, up from 6,173 currently. The proposed budget is $7 million more than this year's. Most of the money—$42.2 million—would come from the state.

State police divers searched a Dinwiddie County stream yesterday for a man missing since last weekend and came up empty-handed, according to Sheriff B.B. Rhodes. The county will make another ground search for 25-year-old Randy Marion today, Rhodes said. "They searched every nook and cranny," Rhodes said, but the seven State Police divers found nothing.

Large fires in Dinwiddie and Bedford counties are nearly under control, but elsewhere in Virginia some wildfires fueled by the weekend's high winds continue to burn largely unchecked.

Waste company agrees to pay; Water Control Board will decide.

SUSSEX—Tiffany Poole left Virginia Beach to escape the constant noise. Now it may follow her to Wakefield. "Honestly, I moved out here to get away from all that," she said. Along with other residents, Poole is unhappy about the potential construction of a practice landing field for Navy jets in Sussex County. The Navy said last week that it will study five sites, including three in Southside Virginia and two in northern North Carolina.

A nine-year-old Prince George girl reported missing from her home Sunday evening was found at her grandmother's house.

TUESDAY, AUG. 21 Dinwiddie County Board of Supervisors, 3 p.m., Pamplin Administration Building, 14016 Boydton Plank Road.  WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22 Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors, 3 p.m., Public Meeting Room, County Administration Building, 10001 Iron Bridge Road.

Dinwiddie County prosecutors didn't get bonuses last year. And the county didn't get money from some fines in May.