By Dan Callahan The Patriot You’ve heard it before. People usually just call it coach speak. The team is down, way down, seemingly out of the game. But the coach says keep playing hard, keep making one play at a time, one stop at a time, stay in […]
Nellie Ruth Compton Donley, age 89 of Pulaski passed away Monday, December 16, 2019 at the Pulaski Health and Rehab Center. Born September 27, 1930 in Ameagle, West Virginia she was the daughter of the late Paul Harrison Compton & Virginia May Cobbler Compton. Her husband, Billy Jones Donley, Sr., daughters, Helen […]
Maxine Porter Dotson, 84 of Dublin, Va. died Monday afternoon, Dec. 16, 2019 in the Highland Ridge Rehab Center, Dublin. She was born in Wythe County on March 5, 1935 and was the daughter of the late Andrew and Mary Porter. She was also preceded in death by two brothers […]
One of the few positive things about getting old is sometimes it means you’ve been around long enough to see changes people in power have made that didn’t work, and see how long it takes them to figure it out. Usually political correctness is a problem with making […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginians may soon be paying higher gas and tobacco taxes but won’t have to get their cars inspected each year. Gov. Ralph Northam unveiled a $135 billion, two-year state budget plan Tuesday that included those ideas as well as hefty new spending to boost early education, […]
Tereasa Jean Shinault, age 48 of Pulaski passed away Sunday, December 15, 2019 at the Lewis-Gale Medical Center, Salem. Born January 4, 1971 in Pulaski she was the daughter of Mary Ellen Ratcliffe Morris and the late Albert Raby Morris, Jr. She is survived by her Special Boyfriend of 30 years Woody […]
Richard D. Thomas will be interim principal at Pulaski County High School during the second semester of the 2019-20 school year. Thomas, formerly Wythe County Public Schools Director of Personnel, replaces Mike Grim who had led the high school since the spring of 2014. The news came Monday evening following […]
Monday, December 16, 2019 – Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives today passed two bills to expand broadband coverage: “Broadband plays a vital role in the economy and culture of the 21st century, yet too many areas of the country, particularly rural communities, are […]
RADFORD, Va., Dec. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Radford University announced the establishment of the Highlander Distinction Program, a four-year, renewable scholarship for incoming students studying on the main campus. Through the program, the University will invest approximately $13 million in new financial aid to be awarded over the next […]
1 Kansas 9-1 1,607 2 2 Gonzaga 11-1 1,552 6 3 Louisville 10-1 1,412 1 4 Duke 9-1 1,387 7 5 Ohio State 9-1 1,334 3 6 Kentucky 8-1 1,231 8 7 Maryland 10-1 1,207 4 8 Oregon 8-2 1,172 10 9 Virginia 8-1 1,121 9 10 Baylor 8-1 1,062 […]
Bonnie Pearce Kemp, 79 of Draper, loving mother, grandmother and wife of the late Carl Ray Kemp, her soul mate of 48 years, “flew away to heaven” peacefully surrounded by “her girls” on December 13, 2019 in Kingsport, TN. She was a 1959 honor graduate of Pulaski High School. She […]
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SCHEDULE THE PSA OFFICE AND ALL THREE DROPSITES WILL BE CLOSED DECEMBER 24TH-25TH. WE WILL RE-OPEN ON DECEMBER 26TH. THERE WILL BE GARBAGE PICKUP ON DECEMBER 24TH. THERE WILL BE NO PICKUP ON DECEMBER 25TH. WEDNESDAY’S GARBAGE WILL BE PICKED UP ON THURSDAY. THURSDAY AND […]