By Meg Hibbert
CRAIG COUNTY – Hours before Gov. Bob McDonnell announced his kindergarten-12th grade education agenda for the year on Jan. 9, area school superintendents unveiled one of their own.
Craig County School Superintendent Ron Gordon was one of 16 area school superintendents who held a news conference at Virginia Western Community College on Jan. 9 to...
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By Staff Writer
SALEM – Salem City Council’s meeting tonight will be 1 hour earlier than usual, at 6:30 p.m. instead of 7:30 p.m.
The meeting will be in the regular place: Council Chambers at the rear of Salem City Hall on North Broad Street.
Council is meeting early in order for Salem High School students to be recognized...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Salem-area people who make pickles and similar products at home may be able to sell them at farmers markets and from their homes if a bill filed by Delegate Greg Habeeb passes.
The Republican who represents Salem and this area of Roanoke County pre-filed House Bill 46 in late November, at the request...
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By Gwen Johnson
NEW CASTLE – Craig County Supervisors Helen Looney and Jennifer Durling were recognized for their service to the county while on the Board of Supervisors.
Helen Looney who represents the Upper Craigs Creek District was elected to the Board in November 2003 and began serving her first term January 1, 2004. She chose not...
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By Meg Hibbert
CRAIG COUNTY – From nativity scenes in the front yards of homes to Santa Claus listening to children’s wishes, Craig County and her people are celebrating Christmas.
Craig people still have the opportunity of old-fashioned Christmas traditions that many people in cities envy:
• attending worship services in a historic old church lit only by candles...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Hometown son Shaine Miles, the Chick-fil-A cows and Salem elected officials officially shoveled dirt and gravel with gold-painted shovels today to break ground for the long-awaited restaurant.
The free-standing restaurant will be located in front of Kmart on West Main Street, and is expected to open in April, Miles said.
Chick-fil-A lovers had been...
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By Meg Hibbert
ROANOKE – A contractor from Salem pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to taking part in a scheme to steer contracts to him for repair, maintenance and renovation work at healthcare and nursing home facilities.
Gary L. Johns pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, which is located in Roanoke.
Johns...
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By Meg Hibbert
PAINT BANK – Mail for Paint Bank residents now has to go to West Virginia and back.
The Paint Bank Post Office closed on Oct. 27, a postal official in New Castle confirmed. “It was a problem with the lease,” according to Officer-in-Charge Allison Sabo.
So now when Paint Bank-area residents want to go to the...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – The first company in Virginia to specialize in electric vehicles, according to its co-founder, is making its debut this week.
Dominion Electric Vehicles – formerly known as Dominion Dodge – has ATVs, fire and rescue electric vehicles, dump trucks, scooters and passenger vehicles, co-founder Andy Kaplan says.
On oct. 13 he’s inviting media and...
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By Meg Hibbert
SINKING CREEK – Honey Hutson’s goal is to be “that writer who lives on the mountain and comes out only when she has to.”
Except for a one-hour drive out and back for work each day and nights filled with graduate work online, she’s close to that.
Hutson lives alone in Sinking Creek in the mountains...
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