Registration for summer classes is in progress at New River Community College. More than 130 classes are being offered for the online summer session, which begins on Wednesday, May 20, and includes both a 10-week and 5-week session. A second 5-week session begins on June 25. Summer class offerings include […]
The Claytor Lake Festival Committee announces the cancellation of the Claytor Lake Festival on June 13, 2020. The Committee feels that social distancing is not going away in the foreseeable future and Governor Northam’s “Stay at Home Order and No Large Gatherings” make the festival impossible this year. This decision […]
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The world’s largest hornet, a 2-inch killer dubbed the “Murder Hornet” with an appetite for honey bees, has been found in Washington state, where entomologists were making plans to wipe it out. The giant Asian insect, with a sting that could be fatal to some people, […]
Today is Tuesday, May 5, the 126th day of 2020. There are 240 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. On this […]
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia town is laying off full-time and part-time workers because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mayor said. The town of Abingdon announced in a statement on Monday that the town manager reduced spending in response to revenue projections that suggested losses from taxes on sales, […]
The New River Valley Public Health Task Force will host an interactive, virtual town hall on COVID-19 and health care, Wednesday, May 6 from 6 to 7 p.m. All area residents are invited to participate. This is the first in a six-week series of town halls. Each has a specific […]
Lisa Carol Spence Jones, age 49 of Dublin passed away, Saturday, April 25, 2020 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born March 30, 1971 in Roanoke she was the daughter of Jacqueline Anne Myers Spence and the late Robert Lee Spence, Sr. Her brother, Robert Lee Spence, Jr., grandparents, Lawrence and […]
Jennifer Bolling has been named the new principal of Pulaski County High School, effective June 1. And a date for graduation has now been set. Bolling’s appointment was made Monday afternoon during a meeting of the School Board at the PCHS Little Theater. Currently an assistant principal at PCHS, Bolling […]
RICHMOND, Va, (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is extending an executive order mandating that some nonessential businesses close for another week, until May 15. Northam announced at a news conference Monday that the state is seeing positive trends in data related to spread and treatment of the coronavirus pandemic […]
Today is Monday, May 4, the 125th day of 2020. There are 241 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war protest at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. On this date: In […]
CHINCOTEAUGUE. Va. (AP) — The Justice Department has filed a statement of interest siding with a Virginia church suing the state’s governor over restrictions because of the coronavirus. The filing was made Sunday in support of the Lighthouse Fellowship Church, which is in Chincoteague on the state’s Eastern Shore. The […]
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest siding with a Virginia church seeking reopening: “I have been troubled by the closure of Virginia churches under Governor Northam’s stay at home order and on Thursday specifically asked the Governor […]