Alleghany County News

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Friday that $28.7 million in refinancing savings would be distributed to 28 Virginia school divisions and the Literary Fund.

The Alleghany County Sheriff's Office has charged a Hot Springs man with arson. Authorities were called to the 200 block of N. Smith Bridge Road in the Falling Springs Garden area of Alleghany County for a prowler.

A West Virginia woman has been charged with falsely claiming to have been sexually assaulted in July this summer.

The Alleghany County Sheriff's Office has charged 27-year-old Alicia Webb of Lewisburg, WV with giving a false police report to police.

Residents in Covington and Alleghany County who want their two governments to merge are asking a judge to let citizens hammer out a consolidation plan because city and county officials have failed to come to terms.

Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds faced off for the fourth time Tuesday night at Roanoke College.

An annual event to feed senior citizens in need is not getting off to a good start, and organizers are asking for your help.

The Dam Safety Action Classification is concerned about seepage at the toe of the dam and a spring a quarter of a mile downstream.

Alleghany County is getting $2.7 million in federal recovery act money to help pay for 31,000 feet of sewer lines, U.S. Rep.

This week's FFE Spotlight Game is Alleghany County vs. Bath County. That's why in this week's Friday Night Bites we headed to Cucci's in Covington.

Drivers spotted a bear cub Wednesday along the access road leading to Mountain View Elementary and Clifton Middle Schools.

The Governing Board for Jackson River Governora s School was reorganized recently for the 2009-2010 school year.

So, a mere hour or two after I posted this last Wednesday, I got a phone call from gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds' people, who were eager to take me up on the offer I'd made in the post: "I'd love for Deeds to convince me that he's stronger on the environment than he seems thus far." Well, sort of eager.

Director of Jackson River Governora s School Named Eddie Graham of Clifton Forge has been named Director of Jackson River Governora s School for Science, Mathematics, and Technology.

"We are contributors to nutrients in the Chesapeake Bay, even this far upstream," says Clifton Forge Town Manager Tracey Shiflett.

School started Wednesday in Orange County with a backpack full of challenges for the new superintendent.

The land is a little cleaner at the Kim Stan Landfill, but it took awhile to get that way.

Alleghany County and Covington officials charged with coming up with a way to merge the two localities into a single jurisdiction killed a proposal Monday night to let voters choose between a city or county form of government.

A Clifton Forge police officer was arraigned Tuesday on charges of sexual battery and sexual object penetration, according to online court records.

A woman who said she was abducted and sexually assaulted last week has confessed to investigators that she fabricated the incident, the Alleghany County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.