The Pulaski Planning Commission on Tuesday tabled a request by Pulaski Medical for approval of a special exception to allow for a 6,099-square foot expansion of its facility at 1006 East Main Street. The action came following a joint public hearing between the commission and Pulaski Town Council during council’s legislative session – its only […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s state-run lottery recently had its best month ever in its 30-year history. A new report from Virginia Lottery shows its October sales coming in at $240 million. That’s $74 million more than what it brought in during October 2017. The record-breaking month was due to big jackpots for national games, […]
WASHINGTON – About 2,000 people per hour filed past the flag-draped coffin of President George Herbert Walker Bush in the United States Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. Photos by ALBANE GUICHARD/Capital News Service
By SHEILA NELSON, Special to The Patriot Celebrating Pulaski County Prosperity was the theme of the recent 2018 Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce Dinner and Awards Banquet, and quite a celebration it was! Marcus Thompson, Communication and Inspiration Manager for Volvo Trucks, did a superb job as the Master of Ceremonies and Franky Marchand welcomed […]
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94. The World War II hero, who […]
$2 billion in additional funding for improvements to Virginia Interstate 81 could yield more than double the return on investment. If $2 billion of crucially needed highway improvements are made to Virginia’s Interstate 81, the surrounding region could benefit from more than $4.3 billion in business output, wages and tax revenues, according to a study […]
Pulaski County will take yet another crack at getting the Virginia General Assembly to allow for cigarettes to be taxed in the county. The county’s Board of Supervisors on Monday night voted 4-1 to approve a resolution in support of the legislature granting all counties in Virginia the authority to allow voters to decide whether […]
Ryder Systems, which recently purchased the former BIR Transport Facility on Kirby Road in Draper, was granted approval Monday night by the Board of Supervisors for a Special Use Permit to install a 12,000 gallon diesel fuel storage tank at the facility. The county’s Unified Development Ordinance requires a Special Use Permit for above ground […]
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student who helped dump the body of a slain 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Natalie Keepers, of Laurel, Maryland, was convicted in September of being an accessory before the fact in the 2016 death of Nicole Lovell. Keepers’ friend, David Eisenhauer, pleaded […]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, have announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the burglary of Dublin Pawn, a federal firearms licensee (FFL) in Dublin, Va. ATF and the […]
