By Staff Writer
Top stories in Craig County for 2010 range from extreme weather with repeated snows, to an outstanding season for the Craig County High School football team, and one of the county’s largest-ever drug busts.
Among the biggest news events that captured the interest of Craig readers were:
• a drug bust with indictments of 32 people...
»
By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – “Igloo for sale. One owner. Free air conditioning. You move.”
That could be the description in a real estate ad for the “building” Matt Thomas constructed. Thomas is an unemployed construction worker who got tired of sitting around the house during the recent snows.
So he put his construction skills to work and built an...
»
By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – This winter’s heavy snowfall is taking a toll on another roof in the Salem area. Roanoke College’s Bast Athletic Complex, which houses a gymnasium, classrooms and offices, was closed today because of the amount of snow on its roof.
Tonight’s men’s basketball game against Hampden-Sydney has been moved to Hollins University. The game...
»
By Meg Hibbert
CRAIG COUNTY – Snow, snow and more snow has caused Craig County Schools to be closed nine of the system’s 11 built-in snow days – so far.
Graduation is still set for June 12, the superintendent promises, and state-mandated Standards of Learning writing tests remain scheduled to start March 2. But if Craig County students...
»
By Meg Hibbert
I looked out the window in the full moon the other night and half expected to see wolves streaking across the snow fields.
I know it’s been more than 100 years since the last known wolf was killed in the South, in the Great Smoky Mountains in 1905, but maybe we’re not living in the...
»
By Meg Hibbert
SCHOOLS CLOSED AGAIN – Roanoke County Schools will be closed on Tuesday because of snow and ice-covered roads, as will schools in Montgomery County, Franklin and Floyd as well as Radford City Schools. Craig County had not announced a schedule for Tuesday as of 5 p.m. Ten inches of snow fell Jan. 29 and...
»
By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Although most college students catch up on their sleep while home during their Christmas break, Jenny Lewis decided on the spur of the moment to build an igloo. In her parents’ back yard. In Salem.
The Notre Dame graduate student was burned out from writing papers and finishing exams in her the sacred...
»
By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – There’s an open-air cafeteria at Fort Lewis Elementary school these days – but no one is eating in it.
Students are eating in their classrooms this week and probably will be for weeks or even months until a new roof is constructed over the cafeteria.
Melting snow from December’s record snowfall slid off the...
»
By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Between 16 and 20 inches of snow fell on the mountains and valleys of Salem and the Roanoke Valley over the weekend, snarling traffic, causing some drivers to abandon their vehicles and walk, and bringing pre-Christmas shopping to a standstill.
But the storm that weather forecasters called a record this early in December...
»
By Meg Hibbert
CRAIG COUNTY – Between 17 and 23 inches of snow fell on the mountains and valleys of Craig County over the weekend, snarling traffic, causing some drivers to abandon their vehicles and walk, and bringing pre-Christmas shopping to a standstill.
But the storm that weather forecasters called a record this early in December for the...
»
