Union Hall News

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: Excavating Contractor Paul Shively Friday morning relocates a large river rock from downstream to the front of Rocky Mount s water treatment plant s low-head dam on the Blackwater River.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: Excavating Contractor Paul Shively Friday morning relocates a large river rock from downstream to the front of Rocky Mount s water treatment plant s low-head dam on the Blackwater River.

Work is moving forward on a low-head dam on the Blackwater River where two people have died in the past two months.

The low-head dam on the Blackwater River at the Rocky Mount Water Treatment Plant has claimed the life of a second canoer within the past two months.

Jumping off the Cliffs, located on the Blackwater River portion of Smith Mountain Lake, has been a popular pastime of lake-goers for decades.

A popular summer pastime is now being banned at Smith Mountain Lake. Even if you've never done it, you've probably heard about the cliff-jumping at the lake in Franklin County.

Phillip Swicegood fishes from a concrete area above the Pigg River low-head dam at Veterans' Memorial Park in Rocky Mount.

On Sunday afternoon, authorities identified the Franklin County man who drowned Saturday in the Blackwater River just north of Rocky Mount.

It's the end of the road for Susan Hughes and her dream car -- a 1972 targa blue Corvette Stingray, 4-speed manual with a 350 engine and a T-top. The 44-year-old stay-at-home mom from Union Hall has decided to part with the present she bought for her 41st birthday.