To the Massanutten Community: By now, I’m sure you’ve heard the news regarding the proposed Rockingham County offer to buy MPSC, the private water and sewer utility that covers our area. MPOA’s Board, following a meeting with representatives of the County, voted unanimously on January 25 to support a buyout offer. The County’s Board of […]Read More…
Update 12/16: Rockingham County Board of Supervisors and MPSC
To the Massanutten Community: We wish we had better news, but as you’ve probably heard, the Board of Supervisors and the new Massanutten Water Authority, in their joint meeting, tabled (postponed) the decision to make a formal offer to acquire MPSC’s assets. According to Great Eastern representatives at the meeting, the Supervisors made the decision […]Read More…
Update 12/13: MPSC, Visioning and More
To the Massanutten Community: Some thoughts on things going on in and around the Resort and the community: our Visioning Sessions, and (of course) a bit about the weather. But first, something very important. On the County’s proposed buyout of MPSC: As you’ve probably heard, Rockingham County’s Board of Supervisors has received the appraisal it […]Read More…
Envisioning Massanutten’s Future
28 November, 2022 To the Massanutten Community: In this post, we’d like to share some thoughts about envisioning Massanutten’s possible future. Many area residents are aware that much of Massanutten was originally developed by Del Webb, a partnership that started in late 1971. Del Webb gained national attention for developing retirement communities in Arizona and […]Read More…
GM Corner update – 11/22/22
To the Massanutten Community: If you’ve been in The Kettle recently, you’ve probably noticed something new: SNOW! We’re making it whenever the temperatures are right, and they’ve been pretty good lately. We expect a bit of a warmup this week, and then things look good for snowmaking again next weekend. Barring anything unexpected, we expect […]Read More…
Community Resort Benefits – Update 9/28/22
To the Massanutten Community: It’s been too long since I last shared information with you. There’ve been some exciting things going on – including energizing the Woodstone solar array, the near-completion of the solar array at our Laundry Facility – and, of course, finishing up the trail and snowmaking improvements on the mountain. But today, […]Read More…
Masanutten’s first solar array activated!
The following is a press release issued yesterday related to the activation of the Resort’s first solar array. The link following it will take you to a story on the event from WHSV. WOODSTONE BUILDING AT MASSANUTTEN NOW PRODUCING ITS OWN ELECTRICITY First of three solar generating installations at the resort has been energized MASSANUTTEN, […]Read More…
DOMINION ENERGY POWER OUTAGE – UPDATE – TO OCCUR THURSDAY 7/21 STARTING 4 A.M.
The twice-rescheduled Dominion Energy power outage in the Kettle is expected to occur tomorrow, 7/21. As a reminder: the work is scheduled to begin at approximately 4:00 a.m. and is expected to take between six and ten hours to complete, meaning that Dominion expects to restore power to the impacted areas by late morning to […]Read More…
Update 7/18/22: Some thoughts on leasing the top floor of the old Admin building
To the Massanutten Community: By now, you may have heard the news: Massanutten Resort is leasing and repurposing the top floor of the former MPOA Administration Building. The process was long and the bid was a competitive one, with several different potential tenants in the running. You might wonder why we chose to do this. […]Read More…
Planned power outage delayed again…
The planned power outage in the Kettle, which had been re-scheduled to July 14, has been re-scheduled again for July 21. Please read previous posts to see areas expected to be impacted. […]Read More…