Bring your Christmas spirit to downtown Norton on Friday, Dec. 4 from 6-8 p.m. for a Drive-Thru Christmas Celebration! Drive Market Place to 7th Street and admire holiday...

HOMESPUN - Now available through Lonesome Pine Library, TumbleBooks provides parents, teacherso sfudents, and children with access to more than 1,000 books, each formatted...

How Does Your Garden Grow? By Sharon Daniels After most trees dropped leaves this fall, I could look past bare trunks and limbs at dots of bright color which lifted my...

The Norton location of the Wise County Food Bank will be closed Dec. 1 and Dec. 4 due to several COVID-19 positive cases among staff, according to Bud Stewart.

The joy of the Christmas season returns with this sparkling production from Barter Theatre, streaming free from December 7 – 20. Relive the sheer...

The Pound Lions Club recently presented this lovely bench to the Historical Society of the Pound as part of their community recycling project....

The University of Virginia’s College at Wise and Appalachian School of Law are pleased to announce that they have recently entered into a...

The local chapter of Rolling Thunder (RTTN#4) once again is collecting donations to place evergreen wreaths on the graves of deceased veterans, to show respect and...

You know Blackberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, but what about Sparkleberry, Thimbleberry and Chokeberry? They and others mentioned here may be shrubs, wildflowers or...

Dairy Queen Turkey Day 5K cancelled This has been a tough call to make but this year’s DQ Turkey Day 5k has been cancelled. With COVID cases rising in Wise County, we...

On November 8, Green Thumb Garden Members acknowledged June Jones 50 year membership by honoring her with the planting of a tree. A Cherokee...

Holiday crafts will be the theme of a Trash Treasures workshop set for Thursday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m. at the Norton Community Center. The workshop...

Organizers of the annual Santa Train run announced in August that while there will be an event, there will be no train trip this year because of COVID-19...

Two upcoming online classes will focus on products from the forest.  On Saturday, Novl. 21, the 3rd Annual Southwest Virginia Tree Syrup School will be conducted on Zoom...

Just as we are enjoying a few warm autumn days before we start preparations for winter, it also is time to think seriously about spring flowers. Tulips, daffodils, crocus,...