Class creates cheerful cooks

Both drivers taken to the hospital

School holds Red, White and Blue Day

When people interested in environmental protection come face to face with people who extract natural resources from the environment, the scene is frequently characterized, charitably sometimes, as confrontational. Think northern spotted owl proponents facing down loggers in the old-growth Pacific Northwest and the stories about saw-foiling chains locked around targeted trees.
But in Abingdon last week, people working with endangered species spent three days with coal mining officials and while positions were clear and goals delineated, what emerged was not confrontational but largely cooperative. One speaker early in the presentations Thursday understood the dynamic that would not lead in the direction of conflict. The gathering was of the 80 percent of moderates on all sides of the issue. Absent was the 20 percent holding extreme views.

As the debris of the Twin Towers rained down on New York, many people wondered which joys of life the terrorists had forever snatched away.
Six years later, the blessings brought by children have emphatically endured.

Grizzled veterans of the journalism world often struggle to muster even the occasional small chuckle, and you’ll certainly never catch them letting out long, hearty guffaws.
But Paul Dellinger, a Wytheville resident and longtime lead reporter for the Roanoke Times’ coverage of Southwest Virginia, is still laughing away a week after his Aug. 31 retirement, after nearly 44 years at the paper.

A Wytheville Main Street landmark and related property are on the auction block. The R.P. Johnson & Sons building, the Williams Supply Inc. site and a vacant lot on Spring Street will be sold at public auction on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 10:30 a.m.

Two group homes for children with emotional problems are coming to Wythe County. One is set to open in October in the former Walnut Inn property on Monroe Street in Wytheville with the other slated for a later opening on East Lee Highway near the Graham’s Forge community.

One lane of southbound Interstate 77 remained closed Friday morning following a fatal two-vehicle crash in Wythe County.

Tired of tons of time-worn tires?
Saturdays in September will supply some solace.
Wythe County will hold tire collection days on Sept. 8, 15 and 22 to give residents a chance to clear out their stacks of rubber.