Surry News

This is a hunting story that shows just how far most of us will go to go hunting and be in the great outdoors.

Have you ever placed a vanishingly thin morsel of rosy meat on your tongue and had it fill your mouth with deepest porkiness, or the aroma of tropical fruits, or caramel, or chocolate? Or all of the above? A really good dry-cured ham can do just that.

Chinese born Abigail Anderson was adopted by an American family when she was 12 and spoke no English.

Editor: Readers like the color-coding we added to the grids in our weekly television guide a few weeks ago, but missed some other elements from the old book.

As many as 300 people from across the state, Maryland and Washington, D.C., showed up with hammer in hand and faith in their hearts Saturday for the construction of a Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in Smithfield.

Dozens of square black signs have cropped up along the main highway leading to this rural town in Surry County, all with the same blunt message: No Coal Plant.

The Surry Power Station will run a test of its early warning sirens on Wednesday morning, which will be heard by residents throughout Hampton Roads .

If the taxes on imported ham are getting you down, there is a line of Virginia Country Ham prized to give the European imports a run for their money.

Six years ago, Abigail Anderson didn't know a word of English. On Saturday, Anderson - who was adopted from a Chinese orphanage when she was 13 - will graduate with honors from Smithfield High School.

Says domestic energy needs are too great to write off coal and has called for research on clean coal.

At first, Helen Eggleston of Dendron was all for the coal-fired power plant proposed for her little town in Surry County.

Gubernatorial candidate Brian Moran headlined a rally opposing the construction of a coal-fired power plant in southeast Virginia on Monday, a contentious local battle that has helped draw distinctions between Democrats on the critical question of how to meet the state's energy demands.

Gubernatorial candidate Brian Moran headlined a rally opposing the construction of a coal-fired power plant in southeast Virginia yesterday afternoon, a contentious local battle that has helped draw distinctions between Democrats on the critical question of how to meet the state's energy demands.

The 2009 Suffolk Rockin' Relay For Life went off May 15 at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy.

Clean, safe, and reliable nuclear energy has been the workhorse of electric power generation in the United States for more than 30 years and is once again poised for growth to meet the new electrical demands of the future.

That, in simplified form, summarizes the debate over the proposed coal-burning power plant in Surry County, the latest front in Virginia's struggle to find new energy sources while protecting the environment.

Surry - Residents will have a chance next week to learn more about potential health and environment risks that some believe could arise if a proposed coal-powered energy plant is built in Dendron.

Yvonne Pierce, mayor of the small town of Dendron, sat i n the third row of chairs lined up at a meeting of the Coalition to Keep Surry Clean, and she shook her head.

Representative government in action - it is a sweet thing indeed. For the latest gratifying chapter, see "Ferry service, restoration of - political aspects." That final phrase is the key.

Gov. Tim Kaine wants state transportation officials to drop plans to close a James River ferry in Surry County .