Chilhowie News

Family, friends, and neighbors are in mourning after a fatal mobile home fire at 39308 Schuler Mountain Road Saturday morning.

Shawn Lawson, a Damascus volunteer firefighter, didn't bother reporting to his station when the call came in.

Kermit the Frog wasn't speaking of being environmentally friendly when he said it's not easy being green.

Michael Eugene Garner sobbed in front of the jury Wednesday when shown a picture of a bloodied Johnny Earl Morphew, the local firefighter killed instantly Jan.

For 20 years, farm wineries in Virginia could cart their hand-crafted Chardonnay from tasting rooms to restaurants, all on their own.

High and gusty wind rocked Smyth County Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning, a far-reaching effect of the strong storm system that the Upper Midwest experienced as a blizzard, according to national weather reports.

Several weeks ago, Town of Marion work crews set ablaze the accumulated brush near the water treatment plant in the eastern part of town.

STUARTS DRAFT - Tyson Lane Woody, 2, of 101 Meadowdale Drive, Stuarts Draft, was completely healed of his cancer as he went home to be with the Lord on Friday, Nov.

Help us in the fight against hunger this holiday season. All Heartland Rehabilitation Services clinics will be collection sites to drop off canned and other non-perishable food items through December 15, 2009.

Taking the witness stand Friday, Connie Brown turned to face the defendant she had not seen in the early morning hours of Dec.

Voters in three Smyth County magisterial districts have made their choices from among the candidates seeking those seats on the board of supervisors.

Lindsay Widener of Chilhowie stars in a scary movie but it has nothing to do with Halloween.

Ten secondary roads in Pittsylvania County will be graded and upgraded after the Virginia Department of Transportation awarded a contract for the projects.

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.

Paying county water and sewer bills is about to get easier, at least the physical part of it.

John Graham will be the Smyth County Democratic Party nominee on the Jan. 12 ballot for the special called election to fill the office of clerk of the Smyth County Circuit Court, according to party chairman Richard Walker.

A long-neglected building on Pepper's Ferry Road is finally getting some TLC. Fourteen years after a regional home repairs company first made plans - later abandoned - to locate an outlet in Wytheville, a local dermatologist's office is now giving the never-used building an occupant for the first time.

Robert Odum will be the Smyth County Republican Party's nominee on the Jan. 12 ballot for the special called election to fill the office of clerk of the Smyth County Circuit Court, according to party chairman Adam Tolbert.

The Lifetime Wellness Center's Movers & Shakers Club members know how to get people up and moving and having a good time and getting healthy.

CHILHOWIE, Va. - Barbara Jo Bunch did not depend on scholarly research. Nor did she apply for any kind of government grant.