While officials remain mum on exact plans for a new $40 million commercial development on the south side of Interstate 81 at Exit 47, a Web site promoting permanent lease agreements gave a name for the development and identified one of the anchor stores as Wal-Mart, which had long been mentioned in the local rumor mill.

Smyth County Community Hospital can scratch another item off the long list of things to accomplish before it can build a proposed new hospital.

Millard Fuller, the founder and former president of Habitat for Humanity who in 2005 started the similar charitable home-building Fuller Center for Housing, will visit Marion Feb. 22-24.

A former Saltville radio station owner was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison with 10 years suspended on charges related to child pornography.

Rabies notifications are on the county ordinance committee’s docket after the board of supervisors Tuesday heard Wes Collins ask for public notices when animals test positive for the lethal disease.

A judge on Thursday increased the bond of a man charged in two alcohol-related incidents, one of which, police said, left a Virginia State Trooper seriously injured earlier this month.

Barry Wayne Marshall II remains free on bond after Judge Sage Johnson granted a continuance of Monday’s bond hearing.

Dewey Kirk remembers that before the war, John Combs Anderson rounded up a group of Smyth County soldiers from as far as Fairwood and brought them to Marion where they marched before shipping out to deployments overseas.

Barry Wayne Marshall II remains free on bond after Judge Sage Johnson granted a continuance of Monday’s bond hearing.
Marshall was released from the Abingdon Regional Jail on a $13,000 bond following his second alcohol-related arrest in two days at the start of February. 

A prosecutor filed a motion Monday to revoke bond on a man arrested twice in 27 hours, then released both times on bond, in alcohol-related incidents—one of which left a Virginia State Trooper seriously injured.
Smyth County Commonwealth’s Attorney Roy Evans is seeking to revoke the bond of Barry Dean Marshall II, 32, of 18042 Black Hollow Road, Abingdon, and send him back to jail.