Marion has $15,000 for a survey of buildings for possible inclusion in an expansion of its historic district. The money is a grant from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources to be matched by $15,000 from the town.

Church puts on annual event

Less than an acre burns

Council to decide whether or not to approve proposed pharmacy

Just over a dozen people gathered in Marion Friday afternoon for the 53rd stop on Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling’s “100 Ideas for the Future of Virginia” tour. It was one of the smaller audiences on the tour that began in April and is set to go to 100 such meeting across the state.

Smyth County school officials were excited by preliminary news last month that all of the county’s public schools made AYP, or Adequate Yearly Progress, on last spring’s testing under No Child Left Behind.

Most of the projects will be done by the end of the year.

The Arts and Crafts Festival is October 6 and 7

More than 30 years ago, Dr. David Brillhart read an article in The Washington Post about a number of old railroad tracks in Wisconsin that had been transformed into hiking trails.

Enrollment has increased at all of the region’s colleges with the exception of one – Virginia Intermont College.
The private college in Bristol, beset by financial woes in recent months, has 30 percent fewer students than it did last fall.