Ida Coleen Wyrick Montgomery received her perfect healing on September 9, 2019, when she left this world and ran into the arms of our Heavenly Father. Coleen was born March 15, 1937 to Carl Wagner Wyrick and Lorena Cressell Wyrick. Preceding her in death were her brothers Alvin, Rufus and […]
RADFORD, Va., Sept. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. News & World Report 2020 Best Colleges rankings advanced Radford University closer to the top of the list. The most recent edition, released today, September 9, 2019, ranked Radford University as the No. 12 Top Public Schools – Regional Universities South, […]
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Virginia Retirement System achieved a 6.7% return, net of fees, on its investment portfolio for fiscal year 2019. The trust fund ended the year with approximately $82.3 billion, setting a new high for the fund. “We achieved a return close to the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is going on a hiring spree. The online shopping giant is holding job fairs across the country next week, aiming to hire more than 30,000 people by early next year, a 5% bump in its total workforce. Amazon is looking for all kinds of workers, […]
Trudy Deane French received her healing Sunday, September 8, 2019. She no longer has to battle the illnesses that ravaged her body. She born August 24, 1946 in Dublin, which was her lifelong home. She was predeceased by her parents, Isaac Lee & Mary Ellen Mabry French, paternal grandparents, Walter […]
Pulaski nominated for MiLB’s John H. Johnson President’s Award CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The Appalachian League today announced the Pulaski Yankees as the League’s 2019 Organization of the Year, presented annually to one club that exemplifies the standards of the complete baseball franchise, based upon franchise stability, contributions to league stability, contributions […]
Charlotte Ann Linkous Coleman, 68, of Fairlawn, VA passed away unexpectedly Saturday, September 7, 2019. She was born in Pulaski on May 5, 1951 and was the daughter of the late Mike Robert Linkous, Sr. and Mildred Josephine Jacobson Linkous Dillon. She was also preceded in death by two sisters. […]
‘Most Dear To Them That Love Her’ Dorothy Ann Waller Tench, 89, of Dublin, Va., passed into the arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ, on Saturday, September 7th, 2019, surrounded by her family. She was born in High Point, NC, on April 25th, 1930 to the late Roy Walter Waller […]
Carolyn Brooks Thomas Keyser, 97, of Pulaski, VA and formerly of Blacksburg, VA, on September 6, 2019, peacefully passed at the Pulaski Health and Rehabilitation Center, Pulaski, VA. She was pre-deceased by her loving husbands, Howard Adams Thomas, who died in 1982, and William Keyser, who died in 1989. Carolyn […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia is hosting a free fishing weekend to make up for some bad weather in June. The Department of Game & Inland Fisheries has scheduled two free fishing days Sept. 28-29 in conjunction with National Hunting and Fishing Day. Inclement weather during free fishing days in […]
The Community Health Center of the New River Valley was recently awarded $167,000 as part of an Integrated Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) program grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enable community health centers, rural organizations and academic institutions to establish and expand access to […]