Smyth County News

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.

For the second time, Smyth County supervisors have resisted recruitment by a citizens' group for a battle the board said should be fought for them by an attorney in a courtroom.

A group opposed to the current healthcare reform legislation will conduct a bus tour through Southwest Virginia on Thursday.

By next week, consent forms for free H1N1 vaccinations should arrive at homes, crammed into the book bags of Virginia public school students in Bristol, Washington County and Smyth County.

John Graham will be the Smyth County Democratic Party nominee on the Jan. 12 ballot for the special called election to fill the office of clerk of the Smyth County Circuit Court, according to party chairman Richard Walker.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 11--As if the state's snakebit computer contractor, Northrop Grumman, hasn't enough to answer for.

It remains the dream of every life to realize itself, to reach out and lift oneself up to greater heights.