Investigation continues

Panel to meet again this month

Local board and Roanoke company strike deal for 56 bed facility

Sheriff’s Office to interview three applicants

Local gas station sells $200,000 ticket

At a time when many her age are worried about passing their driver’s licensing test, 16-year-old Fayth Smith is worried about preparing for the grueling cold.
The Gastonia, N.C., resident, is training for the Iditarod. For dogsledders, that 1,500-mile trek across mountains, over frozen rivers, through deep forests and through the Alaskan tundra is like the Super Bowl, Daytona 500 and World Series rolled into one. 

Washington County Domestic Violence Deputy Stephen Reed thinks of himself as the safety net.
After everyone has left the scene of a domestic violence call, Reed comes back. He checks on the victim, takes out any protective orders or arrest warrants if need be and makes sure the victim received services.

Seventy-five years ago, a group of hungry actors stepped into the lights washing the stage and performed “After Tomorrow.”
Those actors were the first Barter actors. The play, the first the now-three-quarters of a century old theater produced.
Author Sherwood Anderson, then editor of the newspaper in Smyth County reviewed that first effort.
“The play itself wasn’t much… the acting much better than the play,” he wrote. “‘After Tomorrow’ gave us, and this is really the main thing, an honest-to-goodness evening at the theater. And Barter Theatre will surely give us more.”

Members of the Abingdon Police Department and Washington County Sheriff’s Office arrested 29-year-old Charles Atlas Jordan last Friday at a house on Gray Drive in Abingdon.
The Washington County man is accused of selling $400 worth of cocaine to a confidential informant while Abingdon Police witnessed the transaction. 

As one of the founders of the Virginia Auctioneers Association in 1958, Stanley King Sr. sought to make the profession honorable. The Wytheville businessman was recognized recently for his contributions to the organization.
“Back in those days, auctioneers were not too well thought of,” King stated Monday morning. “They’d hold an auction and some of them would take off with the money. We thought the organization would promote a better image and be a service to the public.”