Ararat News

STUART, Va. a 'The Ararat and Claudville areas of Patrick County will have a new representative on the county Board of Supervisors due to a decision by the incumbent not to seek re-election. The filing period for the 2009 election in Patrick passed this week with 3 of Ararat, who serves the Dan River District on the five-member board, declining to ...

The Surry County Sheriff's Office confiscated 25 marijuana plants yesterday afternoon off Radars Road in Ararat, Va.

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Family and friends of 1st Lt. Leevi Barnard will remember the National Guard soldier this weekend.

One local family is mourning the death of a soldier who died just last week in Iraq.

Today a hero returns home. That can sometimes seem a trite statement, perhaps simplistic, but it is true.

Erin C. Perkins/The News Beckya s Glassworks held a remembrance service in honor of 1st Lt.

More information has been released about the Patrick County soldier who was killed last week in Iraq.

Flags flew at half-staff Monday in the small community of Ararat in Patrick County.

First Lt. Leevi Khole Barnard, 28, of Ararat in Patrick County, has been killed in action while serving on his third tour of duty in Iraq, according to his grandfather, Thomas L. Barnard of Ararat.

Officials in Patrick County, Va., are using federal funds to buy land in Surry County to build a tower that will upgrade 911 communications in the Ararat community.

Sheriff Dan Smith reported the following arrests: *William Wesley Webb, 22, of Mount Airy, N.C., was arrested April 30 on charges of robbery and aggravated malicious wounding, with Claude O. McCormick listed as the victim.

Several residents of Mount Airy and the Ararat-Claudville communities in Patrick County have been named in a massive undercover drug operation in Virginia.

So far in 2009, six rabid animals - all raccoons - have been found in Martinsville and Henry, Patrick and Franklin counties, Keith Carr, environmental technical specialist at the Henry-Martinsville Health Department, said Friday.

The Second Annual Laurel Hill Highland Games and Festival will be held at the JEB Stuart Birthplace in Ararat, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event will be held rain or shine.

Historian and Author Tom Perry will host The Free State of Patrick Festival at the Ararat Virginia Ruritan Building on April 25 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. The theme of the event is Books, Community, History and will present many regional authors and historical organizations inside the building while the local vendors focusing on the Dan River ...

Mondee Tilley/The News Author Tom Perry holds up a copy of one of the Mount Airy Public Library's books, "Stoneman's Raid" during the Lunch with an Author series, which has now come to a close.

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Members of the Mount Airy Board of Commissioners, the mayor and city manager discuss various issues at a planning retreat Thursday.

Willow Hill Moravian Church's Youth Fellowship will be having a BBQ Dinner on Saturday, January 17 from 4:00 until at the Willis Gap Community Center in Ararat, VA.