New sidewalks, lights and other improvements on the way

The Tazewell County School Board approved a three percent plus step pay increase for all employees june 30

July 1 always brings new laws to the books and this year is no exception.

The annual report “Crime in Virginia” issued by the state police showed the county with 1,069 incidents reported last year. The state police gathered the data and indexes crime based on a population of 100,000. The county’s index for 2006 was 3657.

Paula Bandy’s marketing program sent nine students to the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Fla. They were among 14,000 participants from the U.S., Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Germany.

Politics and fun will be on the agenda for this year’s July Fourth celebration in Jewell Ridge.

U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher announced today that farmers and livestock producers in Southwest Virginia will be eligible to receive crop and feed assistance as a result of an emergency spending bill recently signed into law by President Bush.

CGI-AMS, a company scheduled to open in the Russell County Industrial Park, announced that hiring is ahead of schedule.

A federal grant application that would have been the icing on the cake for Tazewell County’s Bluestone Technology Park was not funded last week.

An evening of vandalism in a Richlands cemetery leaves four Tazewell County residents facing 10 felony charges each with an additional 30 felony counts pending.