Dendron News

Police continue to search for two fugitives as part of a major drug bust that led to 22 indictments Thursday.

Heroin - a narcotic more commonly found in urban areas - is making inroads into rural Isle of Wight and Surry counties.

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Times Staff Writer About 20 years ago, the people of Halifax County and tiny Clover, Va.

Loading... 1 of 3 Students, including Laura Andrew, center, Chris McKenna, right, and Patrick Sherman, left, hold signs during a press conference before the Surry County Planning Commission's public hearing regarding a proposed coal-fired power plant on Monday, Nov.

A proposed coal-fired power plant in Surry County would add "significant and harmful" amounts of mercury and other pollutants to the Chesapeake Bay and several river systems in coastal Virginia already suffering from excessive mercury levels, a study released Wednesday concludes.

Loading... 1 of 3 Students, including Laura Andrew, center, Chris McKenna, right, and Patrick Sherman, left, hold signs during a press conference before the Surry County Planning Commission's public hearing regarding a proposed coal-fired power plant on Monday, Nov.

In the far-flung 64th House District, a "nice guy" won. Del. William K. Barlow, in office since 1992, narrowly won re-election Tuesday night, with barely more than 50 percent of the vote.

A small crowd of a few dozen activists turned out Thursday for the first local showing of "Coal Country," a film depicting the downside of mountaintop mining that will soon air on public television.

Three large signs supporting the proposed construction of a coal-fired power plant in Dendron were vandalized overnight Oct.

On a plot of land in Dendron, off of Route 31 in Surry County, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative officials want to build the largest coal-fire power plant in Virginia.A If you drive through the Dendron area, the debate over the Cypress Creek Power Plant is clear.

A proposed coal-fired power plant in Surry County would add "significant and harmful" amounts of mercury and other pollutants to the Chesapeake Bay and several river systems in coastal Virginia already suffering from excessive mercury levels, a study released Wednesday concludes.

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Staff Writer DENDRON - The Dendron Town Council voted Monday to let the Surry County Planning Commission review the application for a proposed power plant, and some opponents reacted as if the construction itself had been approved.

The decision, made Monday by a divided Dendron Town Council, reverses a July vote.

The "for sale" sign is gone from Helen Eggleston's front yard. But it could still return to the house where she and her husband live at the center of a storm over a coal-fired power plant proposed for the town of Dendron in Surry County .

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Times Staff Writer DENDRON - As the argument over a proposed coal-fired power plant in this small Surry town intensifies, officials in neighboring Sussex County say they would welcome the facility.

Town officials on Monday agreed that the small community with a multi billion-dollar coal-fired power plant on its horizon will handle its own destiny.

Mike and Helen Eggleston don't want to leave their rambling, restored farmhouse in the town of Dendron .

A small town in Rockingham County has its sights set on becoming a big player in clean coal research.

Dozens of signs urging "No Coal Plant" have sprung up along the highway leading to the Surry County town of Dendron, indicators that plans for a new plant will face some local opposition.

Firefighters took one person to a hospital after someone smoking in bed started a fire in a Southwest Roanoke apartment Saturday evening, officials said.