Henry County News

Only a handful of candidates have filed for local offices in Henry and Patrick counties, according to registrars in both localities.

The Blackberry District representative announced Saturday that he has filed his paperwork to run for a fourth consecutive four-year term.

Businesses such as those at 23 Fayette St. have taken advantage of a grant for facade improvements, and work either is underway or planned on some other properties.

The Martinsville School Board, at its meeting Monday night, scheduled spring break for March 31 through April 4 next school year.

To help local summer camps expand to serve more area young people, a $103,703 community partnership grant from the Harvest Foundation has been awarded to The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge, The Family YMCA and MHC After 3. These three organizations will work together to serve more low-income youth in their programs this summer, according to ... (more)

Martinsville aims to spread Community Development Block Grant projects to all areas of the city qualifying for aid, according to a city official.

Junius P. Warren, retired juvenile and domestic relations court judge, reacts to the unveiling of his portrait Thursday at an appreciation event.

Through dual enrollment, 102 area high school students are eligible to graduate with an associate degree from Patrick Henry Community College on Saturday.

The details varied depending on the line of sight, but three eyewitnesses testified Thursday that they saw the shooting death of William Bradley "Brad" Doss on March 29.

Elizabeth Smallwood wants to extend a hand of friendship and kinship to a Martinsville senior who will enter the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., this summer.

Martinsville Police Capt. Eddie Cassady, standing outside the Martinsville Police Department on Tuesday, discusses the arrests being made in an undercover drug investigation.

The Harvest Foundation has approved two more years of funding for the K-12 Education Initiative in the Henry County Schools, Martinsville Public Schools and Carlisle School.

Franklin County's jobless rate dropped to 5.3 percent in March from 6.0 percent in February, according to the Virginia Employment Commission .

A methamphetamine lab was discovered May 3 in the 200 block of Amos Road, Martinsville, according to a release from the Henry County Sheriff's Office.

The location of a eyewitness just days before a murder trial was set to begin resulted in a last-minute plea agreement in connection with the death of an Horsepasture man in 2011.

Retired Lt. Col. W.C. Fowlkes of Henry County said the new role of women in combat should not be viewed as a gender equality issue.

Beginning in the 2013-14 school year, students in Henry County Public Schools who want to participate in Virginia High School League-sanctioned extracurricular activities will have to sign a pledge not to use drugs, alcohol or tobacco during the season.

Martinsville City Council on Thursday voted 3-2 to give the schools their requested allocation of $6,360,531. The city's proposed budget for fiscal 2014, which will start July 1, included $6,013,985 for the schools.

The Henry County School Board on Thursday named the principal of Bassett High School to a coordinator position, reassigned three other principals and appointed an assistant superintendent, all for the 2013-14 school year.

A Henry County teenager was sentenced in federal court Thursday after he pleaded guilty in January to deliberately setting a church on fire.