County Administrator Jonathan Sweet – noting the theme of the county’s current budget year of “Get Stuff Done” – reported Monday night on a long list of accomplishments achieved during 2018. Sweet said 2018 had been “an exceptional year” in which county staff, administration and the Board of Supervisors had […]
Back in October, when Pulaski County Administrator Jonathan Sweet and Economic Development Director Michael Solomon visited the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C., Turkish officials said they would like to visit Pulaski County. That visit happened this week when Mustafa Koca, Chief Commercial Counselor for the embassy and Selman Kurt, Commercial […]
The music of Truegrass and Sugar Run will be featured during New River Community College’s Fiddle, Banjo and Dance Club Jamboree on Saturday, February 9. Music will begin at 6 p.m. in 117 Edwards Hall at NRCC in Dublin. Truegrass is a bluegrass band that formed in early 2004. They […]
Southwest Virginia now has its own exposition center, strategically located for residents of four neighboring states to enjoy as a tourism destination. The Appalachian Regional Exposition Center (APEX) in Wythe County hosted its first events on Friday, January 25th and Saturday, January 26th to a crowd of 1,100 on opening […]
The Virginia State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Sunday (Feb. 3) morning on Interstate 81 at the Pulaski County/Montgomery County line. Following a hit-and-run crash in the Town of Pulaski earlier Sunday morning involving a GMC Sierra pickup truck, a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) was issued […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Patrick Mahomes’ breathtaking breakthrough season earned him the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award. The Chiefs quarterback landed a pair of honors at NFL Honors on Saturday night, taking The Associated Press 2018 MVP and Offensive Player of the Year awards. In his second pro season, Mahomes led […]
ATLANTA (AP) — For towering tight end Tony Gonzalez, this was a slam dunk. The 6-foot-5 Gonzalez, who turned the celebratory post-TD dunk over the crossbar into an art form, was voted into the Hall of Fame on Saturday. Joining him will be two more first-time nominees, Champ Bailey and […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Efforts by Virginia’s governor have so far failed to quell the uproar over a racist photograph that appeared on his medical school yearbook page 35 years ago. Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday apologized for appearing in a photograph that featured what appeared to be a man […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Hey, have you guys been here before? If you’re a New England Patriot, the answer pretty much is “all the time.” If you play for the Rams, the reply basically is “never in my life.” So if experience is a factor in Sunday’s Super Bowl, the overwhelming […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators and former Governors of Virginia Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine along with Congressman Bobby Scott released the following statement: “After we watched his press conference today, we called Governor Northam to tell him that we no longer believe he can effectively serve as Governor of Virginia and […]
RICHMOND, Va — Talk about a political firestorm. On Friday morning, a conservative news website posted Gov. Ralph Northam’s page from a college yearbook featuring a racist photo. By Friday evening, the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus and Democratic leaders in the General Assembly were calling on Northam to resign. By […]
RICHMOND — If Gov. Ralph Northam resigns because of the scandal over a racist picture in his medical school yearbook, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax would become the 74th governor of Virginia. That would make Fairfax, 39, the second African-American governor in Virginia’s history and just the fourth to hold the office […]