Join cyclists worldwide on May 15, 2019 in a silent, slow-paced ride in honor of vulnerable road users who have been hurt or killed while cycling on public roadways. We will have a police escort along the 7-mile route and will ride at a slow pace. Though solemn, the group […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A group of Virginia state lawmakers are calling on Congress to find more money to improve safety along Interstate 81. The Roanoke Times reports that several state lawmakers recently sent a letter to Virginia’s congressional delegation calling for additional federal funding. State lawmakers recently approved raising […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Doris Day, the honey-voiced singer and actress whose film dramas, musicals and innocent sex comedies made her a top star in the 1950s and ’60s and among the most popular screen actresses in history, has died. She was 97. The Doris Day Animal Foundation confirmed Day […]
PULASKI, Va. (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit filed in connection with the drowning of a 5-year-old Virginia boy in a septic tank has been settled with a $200,000 insurance payment to his parents and sister. The Roanoke Times reports the order entered Wednesday in Pulaski County Circuit Court resolves […]
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA – United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and David W. Archey, the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division, announced today an arrest in a deadly stabbing incident that occurred along the Appalachian Trail in Wythe County, Virginia that left one person dead and another severely […]
WYTHEVILLE, Va. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff says a man attacked two people on the Appalachian Trail with a machete. WJHL reports that the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office issued a statement Saturday saying two hikers reported that a man with a machete was assaulting people on the trail in Wythe […]
On May 4th a Community Wildfire Preparedness Day workshop was held at Randolph Park with 38 attendees. Interagency Cooperation between the Virginia Dept. of Forestry, Pulaski County Emergency Management, Virginia Tech Fire Ecology, New River Valley/Highlands RC&D and local Fire Departments made this event a success. Ten different communities from […]
The Town of Pulaski is proud to sponsor the second annual Music and Merchants Festival in Downtown Pulaski. This year’s festival will be held on Saturday, May 18th from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on West Main Street and Jefferson Avenue. This nighttime event will be held rain or shine, […]
The Virginia State Police investigation continues into Thursday (May 9) morning’s series of events that started in Pulaski County with a pursuit and ended in the Town of Wytheville with an officer-involved shooting. Early Friday morning (May 10), William R. Clark, 31, of Pulaski, Va., died at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. […]
Virgie Allene Taylor, age 83 of Dublin passed away Thursday, May 9, 2019 at the New River Valley Medical Center, Radford. Born February 1, 1936 in Bluefield, VA she was the daughter of the late Ernest Lee Taylor & Allie May Proffitt Taylor, the children’s father, McKinley Curtis Taylor, a […]
Elisha Tobias Cockeran Sr., age 75, of Pulaski, Va. a beloved husband and father, departed this life at 3:30 a.m., Wednesday May 8, 2019 at Lewis-Gale Hospital, Salem. Elisha is survived by his loving wife Alcester Cockeran, three children, Katrina Watson (Marc), Elisha Cockeran Jr., Kimberly Matthews (Dean); and one granddaughter, Jessica Watson. […]
Registration closes at 9 AM on Monday for a Genealogy Workshop to be held on Saturday, May 18, 8 AM – 4:30 PM, at Dublin Christian Church, 5605 Dunlap Road, Dublin, VA. The event is sponsored by Wilderness Road Regional Museum and the New River Historical Society. Sessions for the […]