Friends of Peak Creek (FOPC) has its spring clean-up event scheduled for Saturday April 21st, 10:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. Volunteers are to meet at the Town Parking Lot on First Street N.E. across the street from Thompson Tire at 10:00 A.M. After a short safety briefing, volunteers will be […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers are coming back to the Capitol Wednesday seeking to pass a budget after failing to do so earlier this year. The hang-up: An intraparty feud between Republicans in the GOP-led General Assembly over whether to expand Medicaid. After five years of a near-unified opposition […]
Larmie Jeanette Sutphin Stephens, 73, of Dublin, passed away Monday, April 9, 2018. She was a former City of Radford Director of Finance and owned and operated Collectors Showcase in Dublin. She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and Eleanor Sutphin; and brother, Avril Sutphin. Survivors include her […]
Nonprofits from all over the New River Valley will come together for the 5th annual online giving day, otherwise known as GiveBigNRV this April 18th. This innovative online fundraising event encourages New River Valley residents to donate as much money as possible in support of their favorite local charities in just […]
On the afternoon of April 4, 2018, officers of the Pulaski Police Department responded to the 700 block of Randolph Ave in reference to a female subject walking from house to house taking items from various lawns. Upon arrival, officers met with multiple victims who gave a description of the […]
James Douglas “Doug” Pagan, age 83 of Pulaski, died Sunday, April 8, 2018 at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Doug was a member of the Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church. Doug grew up surrounded by farming, and continued carrying on this tradition his entire life. Doug also worked full time and […]
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 2018-2019 school year. The physicals will take place at PCHS in the Career and Technical Education […]
Elizabeth Howard (Betty) Beamer, 82, of Blacksburg died Saturday afternoon, April 7, 2018. She was born in Pulaski, VA on May 20, l935 and was the daughter of the late Harold Lee Beamer, Sr. and Mary Smith Beamer. She was also preceded in death by her bother, Harold Lee Beamer, […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Motorcycle-related deaths in Virginia sharply increased last year. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that motorcycle deaths climbed by nearly 50 percent in 2017 compared to the year before. There were 107 deaths in 2017. That’s the highest since 2007, when there were 126. The Virginia Department of […]
Multi-million dollar investment in manufacturing operation retains local jobs RICHMOND – Governor Ralph Northam today announced that Mohawk Industries, the leading global manufacturer of residential and commercial flooring products, will purchase new equipment and expand its manufacturing operation in Carroll County. Virginia successfully competed against Alabama for the project, which will retain […]
The investigation by the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Wytheville Field Office continues into the cause and origin of a fire that partially destroyed an abandoned commercial property in Fort Chiswell, Va. The fire was discovered early Friday morning (April 6) at the former outlet mall in Wythe County. At […]
Peggy Sue Davis Gravley, 73, of Fairlawn, VA, died Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Roanoke Memorial Hospital after eight weeks in intensive care. She was born on April 6, 1945, in Oakvale, WV, as the fifth of six children to Cecil Wilburn Davis and Etha Marie Smith Davis Janey. She […]