Supervisors Chairman Joe Guthrie and Vice Chairman Charles Bopp hold up a piece of trash that blew into the grill of Guthrie’s car on Route 100 recently. (Mike Williams/The Patriot) Local citizens, organizations and businesses are joining forces to clean up Pulaski County. Trash is everywhere it seems. On the […]
Pulaski County’s defensive front has played strong this season. Pictured here (from left) are Chayton Rollins, Zeke Surber, Clay Phillips and Diego Turner. (Antonio Nottingham/PC TD Club) The preliminaries are now over. Now the hard work begins. After a 4-0 start with no winning margin less than 21 points – […]
#1 Xavier Cobbs, #7 PJ Prioleau, #4 Kamaree Tanner bring down the Glenvar runner. (Elizabeth Kanipe/The Patriot) The Radford Bobcats hosted Glenvar last Saturday with the Bobcats looking to remain undefeated on the season. The game was littered with a lot of back and forth and turnovers by both teams. […]
JARRATT, Va. (AP) — The governor signed legislation Wednesday making Virginia the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, a dramatic shift for the commonwealth, which had the second-highest number of executions in the U.S. The bills were the culmination of a yearslong battle by Democrats who argued the death […]
On a 4-1 vote Monday night, the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors set the county’s new real estate tax levy at 74 cents per $100 dollars of assessed value. The action came following a presentation by County Administrator Jonathan Sweet on the results of the recent real estate reassessment and […]
The Pulaski County School Board is asking the Board of Supervisors for an additional $534,000 to balance its budget for next school year. The School Board on Tuesday evening, meeting at Pulaski County High School approved a nearly $52 million school budget for the 2021-22 school year. The budget as […]
Pulaski County Public Schools has confirmed a positive Covid diagnosis of a student from Pulaski County High School. The last day that this student was present was Monday, March 15, 2021. It has been determined that proper mitigation strategies were followed and school has since been thoroughly cleaned. PCPS will […]
RICHMOND, VA. — Pulaski County and Radford City elected Republicans announced their endorsements for Kirk Cox for Governor today. “I am honored to proclaim my support for Kirk as he seeks to become the next Governor of Virginia! He brings a wealth of knowledge and leadership with over 30 years serving […]
Republican Travis Hackworth has won the race for the 38th State Senate District seat left vacant by the death Jan. 1 of Ben Chafin. With all 106 precincts reporting in the district, final unofficial results show Hackworth has 17,943 votes (76%) to his Democratic challenger Laurie A. Buchwald’s 5,724 (24%). […]
Approximately one in four Virginians vaccinated with at least one dose RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that as COVID-19 vaccinations continue to rise in Virginia, certain sports and entertainment venues may begin to operate with additional capacity and indoor and outdoor gathering limits will increase starting Thursday, April 1. He […]
Governor Northam has proclaimed March 29 as Virginia Vietnam War Veterans Day. This day will be also be commemorated nationally throughout America. More than 230,000 Virginia men and women served during the Vietnam War and this is a day to honor and remember their service.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Voters in southwest Virginia will cast ballots Tuesday in a special election to fill the seat of the late state Sen. Ben Chafin, who died in January after contracting COVID-19. Competing for the 38th District seat are Republican Travis Hackworth, a businessman and member of the […]