Wise County Schools Director of Elementary Education Carol Grace reads to a group of first graders yesterday in the J.W. Adams Combined School library. Grace has plenty of experience after years as...
City-county panel talks high schools WISE — Officials from Norton are having trouble determining whether it would be good to include J.I. Burton High School in county school consolidation plans, because they’re not sure what the co...
The last piece of a three-part legislative puzzle on how to determine coalbed methane ownership is now falling into place. Yesterday the House of Delegates passed the third version of Del. Terry K...
FRONT PULLOUT: Prosecutor Adrian Collins says an as-yet-unnamed person may have entered Duff's home More than 23 years after 85-year-old Odie Duff was found stabbed to death in the bedroom of his ...
NORTON — Even though state budget decisions still are not final, even worst-case numbers indicate Norton City Schools will be in a better financial position than most other school divisions as they...
COEBURN — The town wants more options to help collect delinquent tax bills, and town officials will look for help from the 2011 state legislature to get them. During a late February workshop, town...
Today marks the staging of Girl Scout Birthday celebrations in troops around the country. On March 12, 1912, founder Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization's first 18 girl membe...
“Charter schools” are a topic of state-level discussion because Gov. Bob McDonnell is a proponent of the non-traditional public schools. “Charter school” has become a buzzword among some who oppos...
WISE — Dominion Virginia Power’s Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center in St. Paul is 58 percent complete, according to Mark Mitchell, Dominion’s director of fossil and hydro projects. Mitchell was o...