Collinsville News

Local shoppers headed out the day after Christmas looking for deals on next yeara s holiday supplies and things to purchase with newly received gift cards and holiday cash.

Many local residents are finding it hard to make charitable donations this Christmas season, but one solution might be lying unused in basements and attics.

New and returning members of the Henry County Board of Supervisors and school board will be sworn into office Tuesday.

Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell addresses those gathered Wednesday at the Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commercea s Pre-legislative Luncheon.

The project to move Henry-Martinsville Social Services to the former Athena/MZM building is on schedule and on budget, Henry County Administrator Benny Summerlin said Tuesday.

A heating and cooling system in the former Henry County courthouse in Martinsville may be replaced soon.

Chip Wyatt , who was working with Christmas Cheer in 1999, and then-Lt. Erik Nickell of the Salvation Army stood at a collection box outside the a oeA Community Christmasa building in Collinsville during a toy drive in December 1999.

The trial of a man charged in a triple slaying has been postponed until March. Carl DeShawn Turner, 18, whose last address was 935 Blankenship Road, Martinsville, has been alleged to be the triggerman in the June 23, 2008, slayings of three Hispanic men in a Collinsville mobile home.

Open house draws 200 Students at Albert Harris Elementary School made Christmas ornaments that double as treats for the birds and used them to decorate evergreen trees at the Virginia Museum of Natural History on Tuesday in preparation for a tree-lighting ceremony that night.

A local man faces four counts of using a communications device to solicit children for sexual activities, according to a news release from the Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Members of the Virginia House of Delegates gave a standing ovation to Henry County-Martinsville area textile workers entering the balcony of the House chambers on Feb.

J. Lloyd Gregory, who served 40 1/2 years with the Martinsville Fire Department, including nearly 20 as chief, died Tuesday at Memorial Hospital in Martinsville.

Program helps 45 women learn to handle money Alicia Solomon of the United Way taught the eight-week Financial Coaching Classes for Women at Patrick Henry Elementary School.

Hound mix reunited with family Prince, also know at the SPCA as Chevy, poses with his family after they were reunited.

Police are searching for two people in connection with an alleged robbery, and three others are in custody in the case, according to a news release from the Henry County Sheriffa s Office and sheriffa s Sgt.

The Henry County Board of Supervisors will learn Monday how volunteer fire departments and rescue squads are handled in three other localities.

BMNN wrote: on Nov. 22, 2009: Lance LeRoy has agreed to represent bluegrass gospel band, The Churchmen.

Virginia needs to cut at least $250 million more from a ravaged budget already in place, and then it faces a projected shortfall of nearly $3 billion for the next two years, legislative budget writers learned Tuesday.

A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to yield the right of way in a June traffic accident that killed a Virginia state trooper.

A Henry County grand jury indicted 46 people Monday on various charges. Among them, Michael Aaron Napier, 23, of 445 Jessteen Lane, Bassett.