About 45 General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products employees in Marion learned Thursday their jobs are being cut over the next few weeks. 

Marion Town Council last month gave its blessing and a promise of $5,000 over two years to a proposed mountain music museum in downtown.
The museum, which will be co-sponsored by The Song of the Mountains and the Appalachian Cultural Music Association, will be located in the old Baldwin’s building between the General Francis Marion Hotel and the Lincoln Theatre.

Tom Makowski made waves in Saltville Tuesday, months before the wave pool he will build this fall opens. Turns out he may help the town address a public restroom relocation project at the Little League field while he’s in town.

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine announced an award of more than $7 million through the Southern Rivers Watershed Enhancement Program to 12 localities and one planning district commission to improve water quality. 

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine announced an award of more than $7 million through the Southern Rivers Watershed Enhancement Program to 12 localities and one planning district commission to improve water quality. 

Harrisons have a history of service

Police looking for two suspects

“Step right, rock forward and quarter turn to the left,” Susie Buckner melodiously instructed a room full of students, young and old, who kicked up their heels Friday evening as they learned the basic steps of line dancing. 

It was a sunny day, bright and clear. The surf beat against the hull of the USS Missouri. The world around the battleship was tranquil and serene.
Thousand, though, teemed on the deck. Some had duties. Many others had cameras. Nearly everyone felt a deep sense of impending peace. 

The town-owned Bayer Property was the focus of Monday’s Damascus Town Council meeting, with the volunteer fire department looking for land and a council member hoping to charge those who camp there during Trail Days.