Smyth County News

Three Smyth County supervisors voted Friday in favor of a $28 million bond issuance for courthouse renovations and construction of a temporary courts facility, a parking deck, and new emergency communications system.

Smyth County's planning commissioners recommended Thursday the board of supervisors approve a District III Governmental Cooperative application for a special use permit for the operation of a Veterans Affairs clinic in its facility at 4451 Lee Highway, Marion.

Washington County Supervisor Tom Taylor remains in office after a judge declined to consider a request to remove him.

A developer is questioning the change in voting by four Marion Town Council members between two public hearings on his request for rezoning of a .646-acre lot with a house at 1103 Culbert Drive from Residential R2 to Medical Arts.

Overgrown and rundown, the empty Damascus Hosiery Mill on South Shady Avenue was long considered an eyesore.

The SADD club at Chilhowie High School is again conducting a campaign to promote buckling up among teen drivers.

This is day 17 of the 2009 edition of the Smyth County Santa's Elves program that works to make Christmas brighter for hundreds of local children.

The first European-style Marion Christmas Market hosted by the Marion German Club is set for next weekend, Nov.

Tony Getman had what some might call an easy choice: plead guilty to molesting his young neighbor or take the case before a Southwest Virginia jury.

Smyth County supervisors will hold a public hearing Nov. 12 on a proposed $28 million bond issuance to pay for courthouse renovations and construction of a new building to house the courts during the renovations and county offices when courts are back in the courthouse, a parking garage and an emergency communications system.

A Saltville woman Friday pleaded guilty to charges related to a December 2008 home invasion that left one dead and three injured.

Emory & Henry freshman Anthony Jones said reading to kids at Meadowview Elementary School benefits him now in the same way he benefited from being read to as a child.

Voters in three Smyth County magisterial districts have made their choices from among the candidates seeking those seats on the board of supervisors.

TAZEWELL, Va. - The first round of H1N1 school vaccination clinics in Southwest Virginia are winding down with hundreds of school-aged children now inoculated against swine flu.

Friday's forecast called for rain, but sun shone abundantly through a deep blue sky on a late-morning gathering in front of the main Blue Ridge Job Corps building.

Two bridges carrying motorists across Bear Creek on Route 617, or Flowing Springs Road, and Route 622, or Bear Creek Road, are among the five in Smyth County set for repairs paid for with stimulus dollars.

Northrup Grumman, the state's beleaguered information technology vendor contracted under the Gov.

The Marion Town Council is mourning the loss of one of its members while a family is grieving from a second sudden death in a matter of months.

Brandi Davis, medical massage therapist, will present a demonstration on the benefits of massage therapy during cancer treatments at the Smyth County Cancer Support Group meeting Tuesday, Oct.

Northrup Grumman, the state's beleaguered information technology vendor contracted under the Gov.