POUND — Downtown buildings are painted, outfitted with new awnings and signs, and situated along new sidewalks. Streets are freshly paved and striped. Beneath them, water pipes and other infrastru...
Supervisors react to high school plan WISE — County supervisors had a flurry of questions for schools Superintendent Jeff Perry Tuesday night after hearing more about his newest high school proposal. Few expressed their opinions of ...
Carbo's 1967 spill cited in ash pollution report Environmentalists are pointing to Appalachian Power Co.‘s Clinch River plant as one of at least 137 sites nationally where coal ash disposal has contaminated groundwater or surface water wit...
Red Onion inmate changes plea in Wallens Ridge murder WISE — A man who has admitted killing two people and allegedly admitted killing a third has now pleaded not guilty to one of the murders. Given a second chance to enter a plea in the death of hi...
Plane makes emergency landing on US 23 WISE — When local aviator Jerry Wharton’s airplane began sputtering over Norton Saturday, he rocked the wings to try to keep it going. By the time he approached Wise, the engine of his 193...
School pitch: Supervisors meet tonight to hear new proposal Tonight, the Wise County Board of Supervisors will get its first official look at a new proposal that would keep all six county high schools open for the time being through a combination of new co...
County student performance improvement plan offered WISE — Four county schools did not meet federal Adequate Yearly Progress standards. Just over a week after the Virginia Department of Education released AYP scores, county School Board members...
School board again considers dropping block scheduling WISE — The county School Board is again considering a transition away from block scheduling, which has been used in high schools for a little more than a decade. Superintendent Jeff Perry told t...