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Bird buffet attracts new winter visitors
Part 3 of 4 Usually, each winter several new visitors join the usual gang at the buffet table for their supper. A few Brown-Capped Chickadees wander down from their residence in the northern everg...
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MECC students met with their local legislators during a recent visit to the Virginia General Assembly. Stopping by Senator William Wampler Jr. s office were Patrick McCracken, Darby Yonce, Catherine Shepherd and Andrianah Kilgore. MECC student blogs about legislative experience
Mountain Empire Community College students are making the annual treks to visit their Southwest Virginia delegates and senator to tell them about the importance of MECC in providing higher educa...
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Dummy Line lives on in certain memories
by BILL HENDRICK - By the Way Columnist
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I’ve always had a special interest in railroads, and rightfully so. At one particular time in my life, I worked for the Norfolk & Western Railway at the same time as my dad, my grandfather and my ...
'Mountain wonder dog' staying out of trouble
by LULA BAXLEY - Mountain Musings, 523-3302, b.baxley7@verizon.net
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- It was good hearing this week from Joann Geisler who lives near Knoxville. Her mom, Wilhite Collier Johnson, daughter of the late Jim and Eliza Gilley Collier, was born here on the mountain. Joan...
Collier, Washburn enjoy birthday jaunt
by DEBORAH CLARKSTON - Voice of the Valley, 523-3062
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- Happy Birthday is wished to Ronnie Mullins, March 11. - Joyce Collier and Rhonda Washburn spent Saturday, March 6 celebrating their birthdays (Joyce, Feb. 26 and Rhonda, Feb. 25) by shopping an...
Retired teachers, local leaders read to students
by JUNE FANNON - Duffield News, 431-2145
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- March 2 was Read Across America Day to commemorate the birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss who would have been more than 100 years old. To mark the event, Duffield Primary School invited 18 c...
Kelly visits family in Tennessee
by ESG News
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- Jim and Sandy Scardo from North Carolina visited the Dietz family Saturday, and attended Sunday services at East Stone Gap United Methodist Church. - Sincere sympathy is expressed to the family ...
Snodgrass spends weekend in Pigeon Forge
by SHIRLEY POFF-MCMAHAN - Crackers Neck News, 523-4769
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- If the old adage is true that says if March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb, then we should be in for some very nice weather. So far this seems to be working. The days have been b...
Local folks attend out-of-town basketball games
by CHARLOTTE ATKINS - Derby News, 565-2382
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- Shirley Thompson has returned home after spending several days in the hospital at Johnson City. She is doing well so keep Shirley in your prayers. - Albert Sokay, uncle of Melvyn Eads, passed aw...