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Trustee sale — Manager: Should help fill shopping center
Anyone who saw Tuesday’s notice about a trustee sale of several properties in the Norton Commons shopping center should not be concerned, according to the property manager. The sale is part of fina...
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Pound residents oppose proposed tax, fee hikes
POUND — A slate of proposed tax increases brought several protesters to Pound’s council meeting — including some who suggested the town should cease to be a town. Eleven people spoke Tuesday durin...
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Lindsey Blevins Pate, Miss Virginia-Kentucky District Fair for 2005, with her mother Christy Lawson Blevins, who won in 1983.
Mother-daughter pageant winners a fair tradition
Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began. As the Virginia-Kentucky District Fair celebrates its 100th anniversary this year...
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Attorney pleads guilty to federal drug charges
Wise attorney Stuart Collins has made a plea deal with federal prosecutors regarding drug charges against him. Collins, 42, pleaded guilty Monday in the U.S. district court in Abingdon to four felo...
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The beginning . . .
Cassandra Sampson of Appalachia raises her diploma in triumph Saturday after commencement ceremonies at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise took place inside the Prior Convocation Center, ...
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Violent crimes alleged: Grand jury indicts seven people
Three people have been charged with physically assaulting others during two separate robberies. Wise County grand jury indictments handed down last week also charge a man with assaulting a woman an...
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Tracy Fultz, with the U.S. Forest Service’s Clinch Ranger District, measures a hemlock’s diameter last Friday off the Red Fox Trail near Pound. The tree’s diameter determines how much insecticide it should receive to help fight the hemlock woolly adelgid. KATIE DUNN PHOTO. <a href="/pages/submit_photo_reprint">Click Here</a> to order photo reprints
Fight against hemlock pest insect continues
Maybe there’s still hope. Hope that the tiny, yet deadly insect wreaking havoc on eastern and Carolina hemlock populations might not prevail. Local efforts to combat the hemlock woolly adelgid are ...
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    by KATIE DUNN • Staff Writer
    05.17.13 - 12:10 am
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  • Forest recreation areas set to open this weekend
    by KATIE DUNN • Staff Writer
    05.17.13 - 12:08 am
  • Coeburn boosts manager offer
    by R.J. ROSE • Contributing Writer
    05.17.13 - 12:07 am
  • Murder probe reaches quarter-century mark
    by JEFF LESTER • News Editor
    05.17.13 - 12:06 am