“Going by train took a lot longer, but it was a better experience than being in a plane....”

Judge Grubbs suspended the fine and jail time for one year and placed a Floyd County senior citizen on 12 months probation.

Architect’s drawing using citizen comments get review at Town Council meeting.

A former American Legion commander in a Wednesday court hearing admitted to bilking thousands of dollars from his organization’s bingo and gaming fund.

The stack of cards on Tony Triplett’s desk kept growing.
People around Damascus were sad to see her go. And she was sad too, to be giving up the job as town clerk.
“These are the best people,” Triplett said. “I love the businesses and the residents.”

Her dad built a room off the garage and a wooden stage for her to dance on.
“That’s where she had her first clogging show in front of us,” he said.
At 13, she’d given her first lesson – to Caitlin Wright.

Amid news items about the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department planning a rescue for troubled mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the larger news of tanking housing markets around the country, Southwest Virginia Legal Aid Society began a counseling project to help homeowners here through the foreclosure process or to avoid it altogether.
According to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development foreclosures doubled in Virginia in 2006.  The counseling, based out of Legal Aid’s Castlewood and Christiansburg offices, will be done over the phone and through correspondence.

There’ll be dancing in the street when Glade Spring celebrates Old Railroad Days on July 18, 19 and 20, a three-day celebration organizers hope will become an annual event.
Sponsored by the Glade Spring Volunteer Fire Department, Old Railroad Days will offer the entire family something fun to do, from a kids’ parade to an antique tractor and car show. Old photographs and memorabilia of Glade Spring will be on display in the former Perry grocery store building to highlight the days when the town depended on the railroads.

A Wytheville man was arrested Monday after allegedly holding people against their will at a Justus-Mills Road residence in Wytheville, according to the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office. Eric Leslie Newman, 35, of Wytheville, was charged with felony abduction, felony communicate a threat to destroy a means of transportation, misdemeanor assault of a household member and misdemeanor destruction of property.

Jack Weaver figures he’s been waiting on a train – or a train company, in his case – long enough.
So, come August, the owner of the historic Rural Retreat Depot plans to pull up stakes and chug out of town