By DANIELLE REID The Patriot Jeffery Walke and his associates from SCM Selfpreservation, LLC, conducted a Self-Defense/Abduction Prevention, Escape and Evasion class last Saturday, April 23rd at the Central Gym in Pulaski. The class was sponsored by the Pulaski Police Department during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The free class […]
The Friends of the Library first Book Sale of the year will be held Friday, May 6th, from 10am to 3pm, at the corner of 3rd and Jefferson. Due to the pandemic, the FOL has lost many of our membership. If you love books and have some volunteer time or […]
By MIKE WILLIAMS The Patriot Pulaski County and the surrounding area welcomes two new Conservation Police Officers fresh out of the Academy in Richmond. Andrew Rohrer and Ronald Wood finished training at the state academy on April 8. Rohrer will be based in Craig County, while Wood will be located […]
By WILLIAM PAINE For The Patriot In November 2021, Marie March was elected to the General Assembly as the delegate representing Virginia’s 7th District. Delegate March, who lives in Floyd County and owns several businesses in the area, recently completed her first session in the General Assembly and agreed to […]
Monday 05/02/22 Varsity Baseball: Lord Botetourt @ Pulaski Co. 5 pm JV Baseball: Pulaski Co. @ Lord Botetourt 5:30 pm Tuesday 05/03/22 Varsity Baseball: Pulaski Co. @ Hidden Valley 5 pm JV Baseball: Hidden Valley @ Pulaski Co. 5 pm Varsity Softball: Hidden Valley @ Pulaski Co. 5 pm JV Softball: Pulaski Co. @ Hidden Valley 5 […]
By MIKE WILLIAMS The Patriot A citizen group calling itself Community Conversations about Equity in Pulaski County was out in force Monday night to urge the Board of Supervisors to fund a nearly half-million-dollar budget request from the School Board to add a para-educator in every county kindergarten class next […]
By MIKE WILLIAMS The Patriot School Board Chairman Dr. Paige Cash and Vice Chairman Tim Hurst used the public comment period of Monday’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors to defend a request for $1.6 million in new county funding for schools. The defense ended with an assault on the […]
Richmond, VA – Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) has been awarded $631,262 in competitive federal funding from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) School Violence Prevention Program. Funds will be used to implement a crisis management […]
Pulaski County High School, in conjunction with LewisGale Hospital Pulaski, will again be providing sports physicals to Pulaski County Public School students who will be enrolled in the 6th through 12th grades during the 2022-2023 school year. The physicals will take place at PCHS in the Career and Technical Education […]
LewisGale Hospital Pulaski announced the addition of pet therapy, also called animal-assisted therapy, offering a well-trained therapy dog who provides comfort and affection as patients recover. The hospital’s first animal to help boost healing and enhance patient care is a 2.5 year old Labradoodle named Teddy, who received a significant […]
Richmond, VA – Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced the availability of $6.5 million through the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) to assist public schools in the development of digital floor plans. In tandem with the announcement, Governor Youngkin signed Delegate Robert Bell’sHouse Bill 741,which requires local school boards to […]
ROANOKE, Va. – Matthew Benjamin Foltz, 29, of Cleveland, Ohio, used the messaging application “Whisper” to engage in sexually explicit conversations with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl from Virginia. Foltz was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to one […]