Abingdon News

Quite often you'll see charity organizations organize galas to bring in money. But when members of the community organize the event as a way of saying thank you, it makes it a little more special.

Area lawmakers aren't yet willing to embrace a controversial plan that would allow Bristol Virginia Utilities to form an independent, public authority.

BRISTOL, Tenn. - A proposed King College school of medicine would be built in Washington County, Va., King President Greg Jordan said.

With a margin of just 17 votes, Republican Joe Straten beat incumbent Democrat Jack McCrady for the Taylor District seat on the Washington County Board of Supervisors, according to unofficial totals late Tuesday.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 29--ABINGDON, Va. -- If you ask Todd Christensen's boss at the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, he'll tell you Christensen has "led the charge" behind the cultural heritage tourism movement in Southwest Virginia.

Mike Ostroski plays Lennie and Ashley Campos plays Curley's wife in the Barter Theater touring production of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," at Five Flags Theater.

An Abingdon woman was arrested Tuesday after police accused her of raping her live-in girlfriend's young daughter at least 11 times in three years.

BY DEBRA McCOWN BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. - The Washington County Board of Supervisors discussed noise ordinances, zoning and business permits Tuesday in trying to resolve conflict over a motorcycle racing track on Providence Road.

Friday's forecast called for rain, but sun shone abundantly through a deep blue sky on a late-morning gathering in front of the main Blue Ridge Job Corps building.

Two bridges carrying motorists across Bear Creek on Route 617, or Flowing Springs Road, and Route 622, or Bear Creek Road, are among the five in Smyth County set for repairs paid for with stimulus dollars.

LEBANON, Va. - Mr. E. Garland Brown, Sr., age 85, of Lebanon, Va., passed away Sunday morning in an Abingdon, Va., hospital.

Oct. 17 * After assaulting her teacher during class at an Old Abingdon Highway church, a "disorderly" woman left in a maroon Nissan toward Lee Highway.

A woman accused of skipping bond was handcuffed, sexually assaulted during a strip search and hauled off to jail Oct.

The Marion Town Council is mourning the loss of one of its members while a family is grieving from a second sudden death in a matter of months.

By CAITLIN SULLIVAN/Staff The sheriff was still settling into his new digs last week.

For nearly 38 years, crafters have converged in an antebellum home on Main Street.

The Star Museum in Abingdon, Va., is filled with memorabilia from the film industry.

ABINGDON, Va. - The Washington County Board of Supervisors is considering a merger of the county's water and sewer service authority with the Bristol Virginia Utilities, which offers similar services in some of the county's southern areas.

The Washington County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved three big essentials at Tuesday's regular meeting: a water plant expansion, a sewer agreement and money for school renovations.

BRISTOL, Va. - In recent months throughout Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee, one of the most frightening words isn't a word at all.