By Edwin McCoy
BOTETOURT – The Botetourt Resource Center (BRC) needs your help again.
In what’s become an annual effort, the center– which assists dozens of senior citizens and struggling families– needs funds to remain open beyond November of this year.
Right now, Director Robyn Dobyns said the center has enough money to remain open into the fall, but...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Jane Ford absolutely beamed as she prepared to go home without having to wear her glasses.
“I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 10 years old,” the 62-year-old said. “I already can see better,” she added, within minutes of coming out of cataract surgery that gave her sight for Christmas.
Ford and 16 other...
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By Edwin McCoy
The meteorological data collection tower (MET) BP Wind Energy put on North Mountain 16 months ago is coming down.
The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday evening to deny a special exceptions permit (SEP) and zoning ordinance text amendment to allow the tower to stand.
BP Wind Energy erected the tower in April 2009 to collect...
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By Edwin McCoy
BOTETOURT – The 198-foot meteorological data collection tower on North Mountain will stay up if the Botetourt Board of Supervisors follows the recommendation from the Planning Commission.
But that doesn’t mean the planners would endorse allowing wind turbines or a wind farm on the mountain that is northeast of Eagle Rock and also runs into...
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By Edwin McCoy
BOTETOURT – A two-car wreck on Rt. 43 between Eagle Rock and US 220 last Thursday afternoon received the typical response from Eagle Rock fire and rescue volunteers.
Within seconds of receiving the call from dispatch, volunteers were on their way.
A couple of those volunteers didn’t have to go to the firehouse to pick up...
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By Edwin McCoy
It’s not uncommon for folks traveling between Eagle Rock and Covington to take the “shortcut” over Rich Patch Mountain instead of wrestling with what’s left of the two-lane section of US 220, then cutting through or traversing Clifton Forge to reach I-64 to head west.
But it’s doubtful a traveler headed for I-64 who is...
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By Submitted
nTelos has announced the expansion of local calling between Eagle Rock, Fincastle, Clifton Forge, Covington and Potts Creek.
Linda Steele, nTelos director of Wireline Marketing, said nTelos has made significant changes in the way long distance and local calls are handled between the Eagle Rock (884), Fincastle (473), Clifton Forge (862, 863), Covington (962, 965,...
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By Edwin McCoy
Botetourt’s libraries have traded getting some new books, periodicals and DVDs in order to maintain some of the evening hours the Library Trustees thought were going to be cut because of budget challenges in the coming fiscal year that starts July 1.
The budget for the Blue Ridge, Buchanan, Fincastle and Eagle Rock libraries was...
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By Edwin McCoy
Botetourt Sheriff’s deputies were responding to a confirmed bank robbery in Eagle Rock just before 1 p.m. today.
According to dispatchers, no one was injured at Bank of Botetourt’s Eagle Rock branch.
The suspect, according to dispatch reports, was thought to be a male and was armed. The suspect was dressed in all black, with a...
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By Edwin McCoy
A thinning shroud of smoke provided a colorful sunset Monday evening and a colorful sunrise Tuesday morning.
The smoke at times blanketed the county Monday and was from a 1,575-acre prescribed burn on national forest land just west of Eagle Rock. The Eastern Divide Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests is...
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