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Martinsville, Virginia is located in Martinsville County. Zip codes in Martinsville, VA include 24112, 24114, and 24113. More Martinsville information.

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2 hrs ago | Martinsville Bulletin

Planters to get a face-lift

Lizz Stanley, director of Gateway/Streetscape, said the agency recently received a $5,000 Lowe's/Keep America Beautiful Community Improvement Grant through the Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation.

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6 hrs ago | Martinsville Bulletin

Search may be slowed

Martinsville's search for a new city manager might be postponed due to a couple of issues that have arisen in recent weeks.

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Thu May 31, 2012

Martinsville Bulletin

Liberty Fair Mall is sold

Hull Storey Gibson Companies announced Wednesday that it acquired Liberty Fair Mall on Commonwealth Boulevard in Martinsville.

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Tue May 29, 2012

Southwest Times

Margaret Bell Kellam

Margaret Bell Kellam, 88, of 231 Kenmore Ave., Martinsville, died Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at Stanleytown Healthcare & Rehab in Bassett.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Godwin to head PHCC

Martinsville Bulletin, Inc. P. O. Box 3711 204 Broad Street Martinsville, Virginia 24115 276-638-8801 Toll Free: 800-234-6575 RICHMOND - Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia's Community Colleges , announced today that Dr.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Speaker: Time to take stand

Constance M. Martin opens the 28th annual Memorial Day Service at Carver Memorial Gardens.

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NorthJersey.com

Book review: 'Taste of Tomorrow' asks what we'll be eating in 2035

What will we be eating in 2035? That's the question reporter Josh Schonwald sets out to answer in "The Taste of Tomorrow." His food odyssey takes him from his neighborhood farmers' market in Illinois all the way to the Netherlands, where he visits a lab making the world's first serious effort to grow meat in a test tube.

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Mon May 28, 2012

Martinsville Bulletin

Project launched to raise suicide awareness

The Dover Hairston Project, named for a local resident who committed suicide Jan.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Daughters struggle to understand after father's January suicide

Shock from the suicide of Dover Hairston still is reverberating through the lives of his daughters Angela and Jennifer Hairston.

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Sun May 27, 2012

Martinsville Bulletin

Businesses give Hurt an earful on the issues

Rep. Robert Hurt took part in a Trout in the Classroom fish release in the Smith River on Friday.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Supervisors take a wait-and-see attitude on city reversion

Members of the Henry County Board of Supervisors polled Friday had a "wait and see" reaction to Martinsville City Council's decision to possibly study reverting to a town.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Heath and community are praised for strategy

The president and publisher of a magazine that covers economic development gives Mark Heath high marks for helping position the area for economic recovery.

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Martinsville Bulletin

News from Martinsville, Virginia

Martinsville Bulletin, Inc. P. O. Box 3711 204 Broad Street Martinsville, Virginia 24115 276-638-8801 Toll Free: 800-234-6575 Carlisle School held its 39th commencement exercises on Saturday, awarding diplomas to 49 students.

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The Aiken Standard

Review: Book asks 'What's for dinner in 2035?'

Wise use of funds There seems to be a need for funding for improvements of area public educational buildings.

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Sat May 26, 2012

GoDanRiver.com

Three retired professors honored at RCC

Three retired Rockingham Community College professors received the achievement of being named professors emeriti during Tuesday's Board of Trustees meeting.

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Fri May 25, 2012

WFMY 2 Greensboro

WalMart Thief Takes TV, Beer, Feminine Hygiene Item

A female exited the store with an Acer desktop computer valued at $378.00, a 32" Vizio LCD television valued at $278.00, a case of Coors Light beer valued at $12.28 and Vagisil valued at $4.97. The female fled the scene in a silver or white Volkswagen Beetle.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Crews work to repair sinkhole

Employees of the Martinsville Public Works Department work Thursday on a sinkhole that developed on Spruce Street just east of Jefferson Circle.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Council to mull town status

That message was put forth by council members Thursday afternoon during a work session on the city's proposed budget for the new fiscal year that will start July 1. Reversion is a legal process in which the city would become a town in Henry County.

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Thu May 24, 2012

Martinsville Bulletin

Students become archaeologists for project

Martinsville High School junior Devante Martin talks about lessons learned from archaeologist Michael Barber, who wrote a field guide the students used and later came to speak to the group.

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Martinsville Bulletin

Flood damage assessed

Joyce and Michael Hankins work Wednesday to clean the basement of their home at 813 Spruce St.

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