It takes a lot of stuff to make a TV show. Even one that uses a single set. Maybe especially one that uses a single set when it’s a stage where musicians perform and the look and sound have to be just right for both the audience and the viewers at home.

Two years and thousands of dollars later, Sunny Daze owners Michael and Linda Dix finally heard the words Wednesday that they’ve unwaveringly argued they deserved to hear all along.
Charges dismissed.

Twelve people are withdrawing from a lawsuit involving the location of a Wytheville couple’s home. They are taking legal steps to remove their names from the suit asking the court to make Edwin R. “Eddie” and Sherry R. Williams take their modular home out of the Birdland Subdivision on Van Mar Drive.

The schools of Rural Retreat lost one of their most ardent supporters Monday with the death of Kirk D. Heldreth, 45.
Heldreth, a Rural Retreat dairy farmer, was in his first term as the Wythe County School Board’s Black Lick District representative.

Wytheville Juvenile and Domestic Courts judge Michael Keith Blankenship, 44, was in Powhatan General District Court Friday charged with a hit and run that caused property damage. The former Wythe County prosecutor pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor and received a $200 fine and an order to pay restitution on the damage caused by the crash.

Aug. 9, 2008

All lanes remain open

Former governor stops at Skeeter’s

Here are some thoughts I have on the current Iraq situation.  Since the news can’t get it right or they actually refuse to report the truth, here is how I see it.
About two weeks ago, a BN CDR decided to take the 15 foot barriers that separated his Forward Operating Base from the surrounding community down. Then to prove the security situation was improving, he decided to drive to the local market in a regular pickup truck, not his usual armored truck. Stuff of this nature is not presented on CNN, Headline News or Fox. This was an article in Stars and Stripes. These are the successes that we, the American Soldiers along with our Iraqi counterparts, are enjoying. However, this does not make a good story so it goes unreported.

New details emerged Monday in Carroll County during a preliminary hearing in the capital murder case of Freddie Hammer, 48, of Crumpler, N.C., who is accused of shooting three men to death Jan. 24 at a Grayson County Christmas tree farm.