NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Healthcare workers in Virginia started receiving the state’s first doses of a coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, kicking off what is likely to be a months long process of inoculating people from the potentially deadly disease. The Ballad Health system broadcast live video of registered nurse Emily […]
VDOT pretreating roads ahead of winter weather SALEM – With winter weather anticipated to impact Virginia on Wednesday, Dec. 16, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is urging drivers to avoid travel during this storm as significant icing is expected to create hazardous road conditions in southwestern Virginia. On Tuesday, […]
The Christmas holiday closing schedule: Wednesday, December 23, 2020, at 12 p.m., Pulaski County Offices will close and reopen on Monday, December 28, 2020, in observance of Christmas. The Pulaski County Public Service Authority billing office will close at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, December 23, 2020, and reopen on Monday, […]
The National Weather Service in Blacksburg has issued a winter storm warning for our area. Wintry precipitation is expected on Wednesday… A complex low pressure system will bring a wintry mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain across portions of the Mid Atlantic on Wednesday. Temperatures will be at or […]
Pulaski County Public Schools has confirmed a positive Covid diagnosis of a student from Pulaski Elementary School and an employee from Critzer Elementary School. Both of these individuals were last present at their respective schools on Tuesday, December 8, 2020. It has been determined that proper mitigation strategies were followed […]
Frontline health care workers to begin receiving vaccine in coming days RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today welcomed one of the first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a Bon Secours hospital in Richmond, Virginia. This initial allotment of 72,150 doses is arriving today and tomorrow at health systems across the […]
Two Virginia State Police troopers are recovering from minor injuries after their patrol vehicle was struck on Interstate 81 in Wythe County Monday morning (Dec. 14). Motorists are reminded no matter where they’re traveling in Virginia today, to please be mindful of and drive for the wet, slick conditions. Drivers […]
On Friday, December 11, 2020, the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office was contacted when a male came to the Wythe County Community Hospital with a gunshot wound. Deputies arrived at WCCH and found James Collins with a gunshot wound to his left arm. Collins told deputies that he was shot by […]
Ted Andrew Harrison, 77, of Dublin, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, December 12, 2020. He was born on March 8, 1943 in Honaker, Va. to the late Isaac and Kathleen Harrison. He was a faithful member of the Fairlawn Church of God and volunteered for the […]
Calvin Robert Boyd, Sr., age 71 passed away December 12, 2020 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He passed peacefully from my heart to God’s loving arms; pain free once again, home with his family that have been waiting for him. He was preceded in death by his father, Abe Dan […]
Geneva McPeak Moore, 88, of Pulaski, Va., passed away on December 12, 2020 , 2020. She was born February 9,1932, in Wythe County, daughter of the late Ballard and Pearlie Mae Moles McPeak. She was preceded in death by her husband, James L. Moore; son, Jackie Dean Moore; three brothers, […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — This year is proving to be the worst on record by far for fatal drug overdoses in Virginia, a statewide forensic epidemiologist said. Rosie Hobron, of the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, told The Virginian-Pilot that as of October, the most […]