In spite of an at-times spirited campaign, voters didn’t flock to the polls to cast ballots in Tuesday’s General Election. Fewer than 35 percent of the county’s 32,452 registered voters chose to take part in the election.

H.C.  Kiser heard the clink of the cleats on the road outside his prison camp and then the American tanker before it busted through the gates. He was 20 years old, 86 pounds and for seven months had been a prisoner of war at a German camp.
“Who do you want me to kill?” cried an American soldier as he jumped from the tank and shocked at Kiser’s gaunt body.
“I don’t know which one,” Kiser replied. 

While on vacation with his family at Fort Fisher, N.C., Jason Dreyzehner and his friend Curt McConnell were body boarding about 150 yards off the beach.
Hurricane Dennis was getting closer, making the waves rear up, perfect for body boarding. However, the conditions were a bit sketchy, as Dreyzehner would soon find out.

It wasn’t so much that a police officer was brought in to close the Abingdon Farmers Market so the town could set up for its Sleepy Hollow Halloween party on Saturday as it was that the town told vendors they had to close early without discussion.
“It did seem very strange to order vendors from a farmers market,” said David King, a member of the market committee who has sold produce at the market since its inception.

Former Damascus Police Chief Tony Richardson tapped his foot while his two Roanoke-based lawyers, Melissa Friedman and Anthony Anderson, spoke on either side of him before his bond hearing last Wednesday.
His bond was increased from $20,000 to $200,000. His parents put up one parcel of land in Grayson County and two parcels of land in Marion, where he and his parents now live, to secure the bond.

Though the ribbon cutting and official dedication to the former superintendent was on Thursday, the Wolf Creek Water Reclamation Facility has been up and running for weeks.

It wasn’t a disembodied voice whispering “Build it and they will come” into the ears of town and county officials.
That voice belonged to the constituents.
On Oct. 24, town and county leaders met to figure out a way to “ build it” on a 59-acre lot. 

More than 50 residents gathered at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center last week for a League of Women Voters-organized candidates forum for those seeking the sheriff, court clerk and commissioner of revenue offices. 

Many high school girls aspire to clothe themselves in an array of expensive dresses and tackle world issues with an opinionated smile made possible only with the help of over-the-counter tooth whiteners while a panel of judges meticulously analyze their every step and breath.

There wasn’t that much contention at last week’s candidate forum for District C School Board and Board of Supervisors candidates considering only incumbant Bucky Boone for School Board and incumbant Kenneth Reynolds for Board of Supervisors showed up. Their opponents Belinda Cole for School Board and William Gibson for Board of Supervisors were absent.