An Atlantic storm could divert a Project Crossroads delivery of donated sanitation materials and bottled water from the Gulf Coast to Virginia’s east coast.

This is the kind of campaign in which everyone can win and a college president will sound its kickoff keynote address.

For nine months, Project Crossroads has taken advantage of a fund-raising opportunity that benefits the non-profit organization and the retailers who make the program work.
Crossroads Cash uses cash cards from hundreds of retailers – stores, restaurants, hotels, even amusement parks – sold by Great Lakes Scrip Center. These are the same as the familiar gift cards that in recent years have made shopping for hard-to-shop-for people easier.

Waverly Moss sings in the choir at Christ Episcopal Church in Marion. As church membership dwindled, Moss recalled, she once compared the experience to that of the musicians who sang as the Titanic sunk. The comparison is no longer valid, and the 40-year member expresses great hope for the 139-year-old church’s future.

Everyone in the region from school children to radio listeners, newspaper readers and television viewers started getting the message last week that no matter where they live, study work and play, their activities, for good or ill, affect a river.

Police think a human skull found on private property adjacent to Hungry Mother State Park may be that of a man wanted by Missouri authorities and believed to have been in the Marion area last summer.

While comparisons of hurricane Gustav to Katrina blew themselves out as the seventh named storm of 2008 weakened and made landfall Tuesday, the Gulf Coast and inland areas are experiencing flooding. National news reports Tuesday said as much as 12 inches of rain had fallen in some areas, with as much as 20 inches possible before Gustav’s remnants dissipate.

The strategy for Travis Ray Hester’s prosecution and the penalty to be sought remain undetermined pending the results of an unusually extensive autopsy on the body of his 11-month-old daughter, Belle LeAnn Hester, Smyth County’s chief prosecutor said Friday.

It’s been almost a year since gunshots disturbed a sunny September morning in Tiny Town Trailer Park and left two men seriously injured, one of them Lt. Kevin Testerman of the Chilhowie Police Department.

This summer, the Rev. Mary Briggs has devoted work time to Facebook, the online social network site.