Abingdon News

At the Abingdon Senior Center, you can learn how to make stained glass ornaments.

The music was soothing, the floors glistening and the bright walls were alive with bold colors and visions inside the new 606 State Street Art Gallery Monday afternoon, and Sam Samuel sounded just as upbeat and vibrant.

She said he was on Euclid Avenue, "supposed to be extremely intoxicated and can be violent when he had been drinking." Police noted "she is hoping that we will pick him up for public intoxication."  Someone called from West Street to say three men were on the train tracks "messing with equipment and [the caller] believes they may have taken ...

Bristol Virginia Police Department March 5 * A car on Clinton Avenue was "egged and scratched." * Someone called in an Old Airport Road driver who "seems to be intoxicated" with two kids in his black Ford pickup at 12:20 p.m. When police arrived, they discovered he was "not intoxicated but suspended" and waited for someone to come pick them all up.

David and Ann Ledgerwood agree that one of their greatest pleasures is retreating to the front porch swing in the summer with their mandolin and guitar.

The same stories keep repeating themselves, Delegate Ward Armstrong said Saturday.

Angela Statzer wrote her foster father a note last year for Father's Day. "Dear Dad," it began in a childish script.

After a series of bake sales Thursday, including one held at the Kroger on Cummings Street, Virginia's state budget shortfall is $921 smaller.

Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., is planning a trip to the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., on March 17 to see the comedy "Chaps" where "Monty Python meets singin' cowboys." The public is invited to join church members for the outing.

Kathiria Pagan, 18, has only been a medical assisting student at Everest University South Orlando campus for three months.

Steven Taylor, a Saltville native, is passionate about taking care of the place he calls home and the unique resources of the Appalachian Mountains.

Although most in the audience seemed to oppose a county ordinance aimed at curbing excessive dog barking, a handful of attendees supported the measure proposed in January.

Virginia House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith's campaign for Congress became official Friday when the Salem Republican filed as a candidate for the GOP nomination in the 9th Congressional District.

With $125,000 available in grants for Southwest Virginia beekeepers, more than 50 people spent Saturday at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center to learn to raise bees.

A Mendota man, already locked up on felony domestic assault charges, now is accused of raping a teenager numerous times over two years.

DANTE, Va. - It's been many years since any new housing was built in this old coal camp, where empty buildings and dilapidated homes define how a one-time boomtown has fallen by the wayside.

All Joe and Terri Owens wanted back were the family photos. A stove fire had just gutted their home of 27 years on Ridgeview Drive.

William Slemp ties little notes to the various weapons he keeps hidden in potted plants and bookshelves all over his Abingdon home.

Q: How long can vanilla beans be stored? a ' Beth G., Bristol, Va. A: When kept tightly wrapped in plastic wrap or a ziplock bag in the refrigerator, beans should last up to six months.

A Cohasset man is identified as one of the two people killed in a Florida bus crash over the weekend.