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March 19, 2010
March 20, 2010
Wytheville resident in college play
Caitie L. Moss is making a splash in her college’s production of the off-Broadway play “Urinetown.” The theater major from Wytheville has a lead role in the Lees-McRae College presentation that opened on Friday night.
Seminar focuses on customer service
If great customer service comes from the heart, then lots of transplants are needed in today’s business world.
Wytheville restaurant closes its doors
A bad economy and the worst winter in years have taken their toll on another Wytheville business.
March 16, 2010
School Board offers new retirement package
It was out with the old and in with the new for the Wythe County School Board on Monday night. The board unanimously suspended its original retirement policy while providing different allowances for possible retirees, beginning this year.
Things were a little crazy at the Rural Retreat High School auditorium Friday night. Students danced, sang, cried, laughed and tried to save the villagers from an impending flood.
Fortunately all these antics were played out under harmless hypnosis by master hypnotist Jason Linett.
The house has been rebuilt; the physical wounds have healed some, but the psychological damage from a deadly 2008 shooting rampage and arson in eastern Wythe County is still raw.
“I’m scared every day of my life,” a tearful Sharon Bane told a judge on Monday afternoon during the sentencing hearing for the 60-year-old man convicted of gunning down her husband, wounding her father, sexually propositioning her stepson, burning down her house and shooting a police officer who tried to help.
March 10, 2010
Suspects sought in Wythe robbery
No injuries reported
Armstrong brings ApCo fight to WCC
The same stories keep repeating themselves, Delegate Ward Armstrong said Saturday.
They’re the stories of people trying to make ends meet on reduced salaries being shocked by a $500 power bill. It’s the story of the woman wearing hats and gloves indoors to keep heating bills down, even as the bills continue to climb, taking 60 percent of her income. Or the one of the woman choosing to cut back on medicine. Or the woman who owns an unoccupied rental, using very little electricity to speak of yet still getting hit with a bill north of $300.
What’s Latin for spelling bee champion?
Davis Little has good reason to know the answer.
The Scott Memorial Middle School seventh-grader and county spelling bee winner credited part of his recent academic success to earlier study of the ancient language that plays a part in the words used today.
Town to receive an electric car
The town of Wytheville will have a year’s free use of an electric car for municipal purposes. Its parking enforcement officer will be the designated driver.
At Monday night’s meeting, Wytheville Town Council approved an agreement with Evatran LLC, developer of systems used for recharging electric vehicles. Council members agreed to provide a space at the Wytheville Police Department where Evatran can install one of its charging devices.
March 09, 2010
VSP campaign nets 3,536 speeders
Virginia State Police reported Monday that “thousands of speeders and hundreds of reckless drivers and seat-belt violators were cited” over the weekend in Operation Air, Land & Speed traffic-safety enforcement effort on Interstates 81 and 95.
March 05, 2010
New hands at the helm of hospital
Retired from 30 years as a chief executive officer, the final 16 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital in Indiana, Dooley said filling in on an interim basis keeps him energized. Monday, when he took the reins of the hospital, he began his fourth tour filling in as a chief executive, his second at a LifePoint facility.
Southwest Virginia Governor’s School presents countless opportunities to high-achieving students across the region. While it is an institution focused on math, science and technology, many of its students selected to attend have greater interest in the arts, such as music or writing. SWVGS gives students of all interests an opportunity to participate in internships at the workplace of their choosing during the spring semester of their junior year. These internships allow juniors to experience a prospective profession and can help them to decide if it is a career they would be interested in pursuing after high school. Although I am proficient enough in math and science to be comfortable attending SWVGS, my true interest lies in writing. The internship program through the Governor’s School has given me the opportunity to be an intern for nine weeks at the Wytheville Enterprise. It seemed natural to me to request an internship here because it is the premier example of journalism in the area.
Miranda Mitchell doesn’t count calories; she counts cookies.
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