Floyd Town Council approved two more grant applications at its September board meeting.

A Floyd County woman returns to work in her shop after being burned several months ago.

Record breaking temperatures make learning and teaching a challenge in areas of schools with no air conditioning. 

Images of America releases history of Tazewell County Community

Both drivers taken to the hospital

School holds Red, White and Blue Day

Lack of rainfall leads to federal declaration

When people interested in environmental protection come face to face with people who extract natural resources from the environment, the scene is frequently characterized, charitably sometimes, as confrontational. Think northern spotted owl proponents facing down loggers in the old-growth Pacific Northwest and the stories about saw-foiling chains locked around targeted trees.
But in Abingdon last week, people working with endangered species spent three days with coal mining officials and while positions were clear and goals delineated, what emerged was not confrontational but largely cooperative. One speaker early in the presentations Thursday understood the dynamic that would not lead in the direction of conflict. The gathering was of the 80 percent of moderates on all sides of the issue. Absent was the 20 percent holding extreme views.

The United Way of Smyth County is gearing up for what Executive Director Susan Ferraro hopes is a campaign that reverses the goal-missing trend of the last couple of years.

It was Gobble’s chili that won at last week’s Abingdon High School chili competition and brought the life skills class to the Washington County Fair Chili Cook-Off competition Monday night, marking the opening of the Washington County Fair held through Sept. 15 at the fairgrounds.