Riner News

Montgomery County residents packed another budget meeting Tuesday as the school board discussed furloughing teachers, cutting positions and ending participation in the regional Governor's School, among other cost-saving measures.

A three-vehicle crash on Virginia 8 between Christiansburg and Riner in Montgomery County sent three people to hospitals Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Recent public debates about education and taxes in Montgomery County have taken on the passion and bitterness usually reserved for acrimonious divorce proceedings.

Riner parents are planning to give Montgomery County School Board members an earful tonight about a proposal to close Auburn Middle School for two years as a budget-saving measure.

"I think for the first time you'll really see a visible change in the landscape at Montgomery County schools," said Blackburn.