CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Brennan Armstrong thinks Virgina is playing its best football at the right time. The redshirt sophomore threw for a touchdown and ran 60 yards for another Saturday as Virginia beat Boston College 43-32 for its first victory ever against the Eagles. It’ was the Cavaliers’ fourth […]
Clemson is one victory away from a sixth consecutive trip to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game and the No. 4 Tigers would seem to be facing Virginia Tech at the right time. The Hokies (4-5, 4-4) have lost three straight as their running game, once among the best in […]
Virginia brings plenty of momentum into Saturday’s matchup with Boston College, which may be playing its last game of the season. But the Eagles have hardly been pushovers under first-year coach Jeff Hafley. The Cavaliers (4-4, 3-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) have rallied behind quarterback Brennan Armstrong, who missed two games […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Sam Hauser and No. 15 Virginia thought they had the game won in regulation, but after Kent State missed three 3-point attempts and kept rebounding the ball, Danny Pippen swished a 3 at the buzzer, forcing overtime. In the extra period, it was Hauser who did […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — If federal regulators authorize two COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Virginia expects to receive enough doses by the year’s end to begin inoculating nearly all of its health care workers and long-term care facility residents, officials said Friday. The state voted this week to adopt federal recommendations that […]
John Grayson Biggs Sr., age 43, of Pulaski, departed from this world on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, at the LewisGale Pulaski Hospital. Born on July 4, 1977, in Radford, VA, he was the son of the late Wallace M. and Helen L. Hedge Biggs. John loved to laugh and make […]
Jeanne DeFord Bailey Whitman civic leader, educator, community volunteer, mother and grandmother died on Dec. 2, 2020 in Harrisonberg, VA. She was devoted to her community and home in Pulaski, VA, where she spent over 60 years of her life. Her husband, Robert P. Whitman, Sr. predeceased her in 1993. […]
Rebecca Jane Hurst, age 62 of Dublin, died Wednesday December 2, 2020 at Lewis Gale Hospital – Pulaski. She was born on July 7, 1958, and was the daughter of the late Josephine Finn Hurst and Hugh Clint Hurst, Sr. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death […]
John William Smith, 88, passed away peacefully at home on December 2, 2020. John “Bill” loved his country and served in the Air Force in Japan during the Korean War. Upon returning home he worked as a truck driver, salesman and commercial bus driver before starting a career in the […]
Cases of COVID-19 have increased sharply in Pulaski County in just the last month, but this latest spike may be slowing. The most recent COVID-19 update from the New River Valley Public Health Task Force – released Wednesday – shows Pulaski County with 725 cases of the coronavirus since March. […]
A revised state budget bill signed Nov. 18 by Gov. Ralph Northam includes a new moratorium on utility disconnects, including delinquent water and sewer accounts in the Town of Pulaski. Interim Town Manager Darlene Burcham briefed town council on the situation at their meeting Tuesday night. Burcham said the moratorium […]
Like the old saying, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” Draper Supervisor Dirk Compton is urging county residents to speak up and respond to a broadband internet study and survey going on now in Pulaski County. “It’s important we get these surveys filled out,” said Compton at a recent meeting […]