BOYS BASKETBALL RIVER RIDGE ALL-DISTICT TEAM Player of the Year: Abu Yarmah PH Coach of the Year: Jack Esworthy PH 1st Team Abu Yarmah Patrick Henry Sidney Webb Patrick Henry Brooks Derey Patrick Henry Stark Jones Cave Spring Dylan Saunders Cave Spring Tyus Johnson Hidden Valley Wade Bland Blacksburg […]
By Madison Hirneisen (The Center Square) – A panel of Virginia state Senate lawmakers defeated a torrent of Republican-backed education bills Thursday, including measures to require schools to maintain a catalog and identify library books with “graphic sexual content,” and prevent transgender students from participating in sports aligned with their […]
Our Dad, Daniel “Stuart” Johnston joined his family in heaven on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Stuart was preceded in death by wife, Nancy Welch Johnston and their son, Jeffery Stuart Johnston. Also, his parents, Lacy Leo Johnston and Lois Gray Johnston, his brothers, Herbert “Muss” Johnston, Leo “Bugg” Johnston and […]
Mike Robert Linkous Jr. passed away on February 7th, 2023, his 78th birthday. Born February 7th, 1945 in Pulaski County. He was the son of Mike Linkous Sr. and Mildred Dillon. He was also proceeded in death by 3 sisters, Ollie Palmer, Betty Branscome and Charolette Coleman. Mike was a […]
Jennie Kylene Lawson Waldron, age 36 of Pulaski passed away Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery. Born May 28, 1986 in Pulaski, Virginia she was the daughter of George Stanley Lawson JR and Patricia Malley Lawson. She was preceded in death by her infant son Brock Waldron, grandparents […]
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By MIKE WILLIAMS The Patriot The Pulaski County School Board says it will need a “significant increase” in local school funding to keep the county from falling behind its neighboring school divisions in employee salaries. The school board has held two budget work sessions on its Fiscal Year 2024 budget […]
By WILLIAM PAINE The Patriot This past Wednesday, the Southwest Virginia Governor’s School Board met at New River Community College’s Godbey Hall to determine where classes would be held for the upcoming fall semester. The room selected for the meeting was filled to capacity as Gov school teachers, alumni and […]
The Pulaski County School Board will meet on Monday, February 20, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. for a Regular School Board Meeting in the auditorium at Pulaski County Middle School with a closed session beginning at 5:30 p.m. The meeting will be streamed live on the Pulaski County Public Schools YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDoZxsI_hmaavkuVZ3B0OQ. The agenda is posted on BoardDocs. http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/pcva/Board.nsf/Public
Hokiesports.com ATLANTA, Ga. – Grant Basile scored 21 points, but the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team fell to Georgia Tech 77-70 on the road Wednesday. Basile added seven rebounds and two blocks to his 21 point game to lead the Hokies. Justyn Mutts helped out with a double double of 17 points and 11 rebounds and Sean Pedulla chipped […]
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Wednesday delivered opening remarks and questioned witnesses at a joint hearing examining the Biden Administration’s border crisis, which has led to a public health crisis with record amounts of fentanyl and its analogues streaming […]
Shirley Magdalene Rickey Warf, age 74 of Dublin passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born April 19, 1948 in Max Meadows, Virginia she was the daughter of the late Boyd Dickerson Rickey, Sr. & Sally Elizabeth Jackson Rickey. She was also preceded in death by […]