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Just like the flower she's named after, Lotus, Smyth Animal Rescue’s Pet of the Week, is ready to bloom in the right home!
The Lincoln Theatre will host “The Coolest Hometown,” a live stage production, on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m.
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Despite strong opposition from citizens during a December public hearing on a proposed loitering ordinance, the Marion Town Council will take another look at the measure brought up in response to the community’s growing population of unhoused individuals.
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The park and recreation area long envisioned for Marion’s Callan Drive area possesses the potential to improve the quality of life of not just the town and county but the region. Scott Carson, a landscape architect and project team leader, made that assertion before the Marion Town Council M…
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Area law enforcement credited a Chilhowie business with helping solve an industry theft. On Aug. 17, the Washington County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation into the theft of industrial wire and tools from Stuart Rush Company in Abingdon. According to a WCSO news release, the stolen…
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A sitting member of the Saltville Town Council, who first served the town as a department head, died last weekend.
A sitting member of the Saltville Town Council, who first served the town as a department head, died last weekend.
For many kids in Southwest Virginia, big fire trucks, police cruisers, and heavy construction equipment are things they only see from a distance or through a television screen. But on Saturday, Aug. 29, the keys to those very vehicles are being handed over — metaphorically speaking — to the …
The Saltville Police Department sent the only Virginia law enforcement representative to join a unique team in Washington, D.C., for the country’s 250th anniversary celebration.
A Chilhowie High School graduate’s writing was honored at the Executive Mansion in Richmond on Thursday morning.
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Hunter Trivette believes in pursuing excellence, but, as he’s matured, his idea of what that means has changed.
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The stretch of U.S. 11 that goes by Chilhowie High and Middle schools carries about 6,500 vehicles a day. Each school day, more than 100 students cross that road. During this school year, officials hope that those students and community members will be safer.
The work of an artist whose work sits at the junction of photography, fiber, form, and curiosity will be on exhibit for the upcoming ArtWalk in Marion. During the event, Wytheville’s Emily Cooley will perform.
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Early this week, the search continued for a Virginia Beach man facing multiple charges in Marion after a Friday incident.
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As the Appalachian Center for Hope begins accepting patient applications and prepares to open its door to provide addiction treatment, those behind the institution aren’t pausing their work to help Southwest Virginia. The center’s executive director said, “We see this as the first step.”
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In 2019, the critical need for in-patient substance use treatment became starkly apparent to Smyth County leaders as the opioid crisis mounted. This month, the center they envisioned and brought into reality despite numerous challenges is beginning to accept patient applications.
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Feeding Southwest Virginia and three of its partner agencies, including a Smyth County food pantry, will share in a $403,080 grant from the Wellspring Foundation of Southwest Virginia.
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On a Saturday afternoon, the room was lit with warm side lights as the equipment for a presentation glowed ready at the front. Just the prior day, the room’s look conveyed festive dinosaur habitat, ready to help youngsters celebrate summer reading and play.
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Over the course of decades two men put their faith, hands, feet, and backs into providing warm and safe houses for the people of multiple Southwest Virginia counties. For some people that meant a new roof or a ramp for a wheelchair. Sometimes that meant giving them firewood.
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Transforming a building that was once considered an eyesore in Saltville into a gateway to the community and the Salt Trail has taken on special significance for one Smyth County official.
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Monday afternoon, standing inside the newly rebuilt and renovated space that was gutted by fire in October 2021, Todd Baxter wondered how the walls might reflect on the 120 years they’ve stood.
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If she was the mayor of Saltville, Kenzley Frye would address day-to-day issues like potholes, while also working on enhanced tourism marketing and bolstering diversity and inclusion in the community.