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Some people, including local photographer Roddy Addington, can’t resist a trip up to the High Knob area following a snowfall. Addington took advantage of Friday morning’s light snow to capture some beautiful images of the white stuff covering roads, falling leaves and more. The region may not see another snowfall for awhile: forecasts call for a warming trend that will bring high temperatures in the mid- to high 60s, with lows in the high 30s to low 40s over the next several days.

November 8, 2010

Many local residents were surprised Friday morning to see a dusting of snow on the ground, thanks to unusually low temperatures and a lot of...

Shown left to right turning a ceremonial shovel of dirt for a new Health Wagon clinic are County Administrator Shannon Scott, Health Wagon nurse Paula Meade, Health Wagon founder Bernadette Kenny, Health Wagon Executive Director Teresa Gardner, Board of Supervisors Chairman J.H. Rivers, Industrial Development Authority Chairman Kenny Gilley, State Del. Clarence 'Bud' Phillips, 'Papa' Joe Smiddy and architect Luther Cain. JODI DEAL PHOTO.Click Hereto order photo reprints

Health Wagon plans new Wise clinic

November 8, 2010

Thirty years ago, Sister Bernadette Kenny, a Catholic nun and nurse practitioner, began wheeling around the mountains of Southwest Virginia...

As local folks took down signs that dotted the county during the recent election season, new signs started going up in Big Stone Gap to voice opposition to the latest school consolidation scenario. KEVIN MAYS PHOTO.Click Hereto order photo reprints

Opposition to schools plan mounting in Big Stone Gap

November 4, 2010

A new group has sprung up on Facebook in the wake of recent decisions to pursue construction of two consolidated county high schools on one site in...

Boucher unseated; 28-year career to end

November 4, 2010

Former Wise County supervisor Jeff Salyers told a story that may sum up why Ninth District U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher lost Tuesday’s election.Tuesday...

Dickenson County Sheriff’s investigators say they seized these ingredients used to make methamphetamine from the car of Tennessee resident Melvin William Stephens.

Man arrested for having meth ingredients

November 3, 2010

A Tennessee man was arrested in Dickenson County Monday afternoon for possessing ingredients to manufacture methamphetamine, according to the...

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Appy, BSG buck Griffith trend

November 3, 2010

While Virginia’s Ninth Congressional District tilted strongly to the Republican side Tuesday, with Morgan Griffith capturing 51.2 percent of the...

This site plan, which is still in the very early conceptual phase, shows how a dual-school facility could be laid out. Each school would have its own parking lots, entrances and sports practice facilities, but no new sports facilities on-site. BRANCH PPEA TEAM DESIGN.

Two on one site How would the latest high school plan work?

November 3, 2010

Some citizens are still confused by a $69 million proposal to build two schools on a single site somewhere in the Wise-Norton area.In the past two...

Elements of three conceptual designs presented by Roanoke-based architecture firm Hill Studio in July are combined into a new final design for a replacement High Knob tower. It includes an octagonal tower, the shape of which is reminiscent of the old wooden structure, with a graded and looping trail leading visitors to the structure’s observation deck. HILL STUDIO RENDERING.

Final High Knob tower design revealed

November 1, 2010

Three years and one day after the popular observation tower on High Knob was destroyed by arson, U.S. Forest Service officials revealed final plans...

There were plenty of scary, funny, interesting and beautiful faces strolling around the event. Among the most captivating faces was that of 9-year-old Vampire Queen Brooklin Baker of Wise. Mother Wendy Baker said her daughter insisted that a vampire’s face should be painted ghostly white. But Mrs. Baker, who did the handiwork, won out, successfully arguing that the Vampire Queen needed to be a striking beauty to blend with humankind and lure them as her prey. JENAY TATE PHOTO.Click Hereto order photo reprints

November 1, 2010

Sykes hosts Halloween event.Count Allen Cress and his companion in the trunk were the scariest characters at the Sykes trunk or treat Halloween...

LuAn Mitchell uses a big visual aid to help describe the low expectations that she overcame to turn around her family’s struggling business after her husband died. DIANA COLLIER PHOTO.

Business people get inspired, educated at fall conference

October 28, 2010

BIG STONE GAP — More than 100 local business professionals gathered to hear the inspirational story of millionaire entrepreneur LuAn Mitchell along...

Pamela and Phillip Coker of Cawood, Ky., with newborn son Hunter David Coker, one of Wellmont Lonesome Pine Hospital's blizzard babies, and daughter Cassidy. PHOTO BY GLENN GANNAWAY.Click Hereto order photo reprints

LPH experiencing 'blizzard baby' bulge

October 27, 2010

BIG STONE GAP — A bad winter was the beginning of some wonderful developments that are coming to full fruition as 2010 wanes.Wellmont Lonesome Pine...

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October 27, 2010

The fading sun paints a blaze of color on clouds at twilight Wednesday above the hills on the old road from Norton to Appalachia. A combination of...

October 25, 2010

Candace Castle, 21, of Castlewood, worked hard for her ‘best zombie shuffle’ award during Saturday’s Zombie Walk to raise money for the St. Paul...

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October 21, 2010

Brigitte Easterling, left, and Marcie Scott are leading the ‘Wise Rack Pack’ team to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. Learn more...

Among local volunteers working to prepare shoeboxes ahead of national collection week are (seated, from left) Rita Powers and Louise Robinette of Powell Valley Presbyterian Chapel; Teresa Smith and Linda Cooper of Derby United Methodist Church; (standing, from left) Douglas Bishop of Deep Springs Missionary Baptist Church, Paula Barton of Trinity United Methodist Church, Brenda Anderson of Big Stone Gap Presbyterian Church, Sharra Kegan of Oak Grove Baptist Church, and Hope Deary of Powell Valley Presbyterian Chapel. PHOTO BY GLENN GANNAWAY.Click Hereto order photo reprints

Churches mobilize for Operation Christmas Child

October 21, 2010

BIG STONE GAP — Churches are once again mobilizing to help bring a little happiness to children around the world.Big Stone Gap Presbyterian Church...

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