Wirtz News

Northern Virginia native Jason Kosmann has hunted for his own business venture since his senior year in college at Georgia Tech, where he studied business and engineering.

Franklin County was voted in as a full-fledged member of the Western Virginia Water Authority this morning in Vinton by the governing bodies that already made-up the regional utility.

The 56th Fall Antiques Show, sponsored by The Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, begins this weekend at the Moose Lodge in Belle Haven.

The walls are an eye-catching yellow and green. The shelves are low. The aisles are wide.

Veston Clement works to install a trenchless pipe for Grindstaff Underground Utilities, which is subcontracted on the waterline project from Roanoke County into Franklin County.

Crews drag cattle up a steep embankment Tuesday after a tractor-trailer crashed on Jae Valley Road close to the Roanoke County-Franklin County line.

Wirtz woman's pigeons have an unusual talent The frillback pigeon that Connie Marsh is holding is very rare, she says.

Wirtz woman's pigeons have an unusual talent The frillback pigeon that Connie Marsh is holding is very rare, she says.

A Wirtz man and a Montgomery County man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Franklin County Circuit Court to breaking and entering, larceny and destruction of property in a series of burglaries in the county, which started in July 2008.

July 24, 2009 Funding sought for projects in Henry, Franklin, Campbell Counties Federal funding for three projects in our region has cleared one hurdle in Washington.

Taught by certified Grandmaster Dollmaker Patricia Harrington. 10 a.m. Patricia's Doll Chalet, Fox Chase Road, Wirtz.

Twin Chimneys, ruins of the Wirtz homestead of Revolutionary War patriot Gwin Dudley, will be officially marked with a ceremony Sunday, June 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. The site is listed on both the national and state registers of historic places.

A1 2, but Johnathan Dillon's tempo as a bluegrass musician hasn't skipped a beat.

A man drowned in the Blackwater River just north of Rocky Mount on Saturday afternoon after the canoe in which he was riding capsized, police said.

Twenty-one lots in several lake developments and one large waterfront estate will be auctioned Saturday in an effort to reduce a developer's inventory.

Officials around the state ask: Are government-owned vehicles a civic necessity, a job perk -- or a fiscal liability? STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS The Roanoke Times Mike Obenchain does a quick service check Thursday after changing a tire on a take-home emergency barricade truck in the Roanoke fleet management garage.

It's official. After almost 10 months, the Westlake Kroger expansion and renovations are complete, said Manager Jim Townsend.

Johnathan Dillon, of Wirtz, won second place at MerleFest's bluegrass banjo championship.

Susan Bulbin wasn't ready to leave retail behind, even after she was laid off in February from a sales job at Frances Kahn, a Roanoke women's apparel boutique.