After more than 27 years of dedicated service to the Wytheville Police Department, Sgt. Trenton Crockett’s fellow officers have finally discovered something that he isn’t so good at.
Retiring.

The approach of a new school year will bring a hardship to many parents in Wythe and Bland counties. Escalating costs of fuel, food and other necessities will leave little money for needed school supplies.

A traffic stop on Interstate 77 resulted in the arrest of three West Virginia men and confiscation of marijuana and cash, according to the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office. The incident occurred last Friday around 2 p.m.

It’s 10 years the county’s library has worked to raise the money to expand the Damascus branch.
On Monday, all the planning began to pay off. Library Director Charlotte Parsons announced that, after a $582,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Transportation, the library has the funding needed to move forward with construction.

“You have to go to Florida; you’re good luck.”
Taylor Doss kneeled beside Dale Orfield on the grass.
“If I was ever to go (to Florida ) this would be it, but I can’t go,” Orfield said. “I’m too old. I’m 78.”

High speeds and tons of metal can be a bad mix. For proof, just look at the July 21 wreck that stopped traffic on Interstate 81 and brought in three hydraulic cutting unites and a MedFlight helicopter.
For the 19-year-old caught up in the mess, however, it was proof that someone was watching over him. 

Delegate Bill Carrico (R-5) said Tuesday he is repeating much of what he did last year in response to Appalachian Power Co.’s rate hike requests as the State Corporation Commission moves toward October hearings on the utility’s proposals.

Smyth County has a pair of estimates but no final word about how much the Commonwealth of Virginia wants it to send back in the wake of state budget cuts.

There are fewer trucks on Watermill Road these days bearing brush, et cetera, en route to the burn pile out by Marion’s water treatment plant. Blame the et cetera and those who hauled it in for the town’s recent formal closure of the dump to use by private citizens.

Smyth and Marion officials informally agreed Thursday to create a Community Development Authority after a public hearing that brought rare glimpses into plans for the $40 million, 400,000-square-foot Smyth Crossings south of the Interstate 81 Exit 47 interchange.