Gary Long of Sinking Valley has been named winner of the Blair County Chamber of Commerce’s Agricultural Community Excellence Award.

The ACE Award was started as a continuation and expansion of the chamber’s Farm Family of the Year Award, which began in 1970. It is an effort by the chamber to recognize all facets that make agriculture a primary industry in the county.

Long, who owns Long’s Field Service and is a former president of the Blair County Farm Bureau, will be honored Nov. 12 at the Chamber’s Farm City Dinner at Morrisons Cove Memorial Park in Martinsburg.