Winter Woes
With spring just around the corner, Saturday’s snowy and icy conditions with temperatures in teh low teens were an abrupt about- face from last Friday’s 68 degree weather. By Monday afternoon, temperatures returned to the 60s as the snow melted away.
Project Veer Report Identifies Entry Points for Regional Manufacturers
InvestSWVA’s Project Veer has identified nearly 200 companies in Virginia’s Southwest as potential suppliers to the burgeoning offshore wind (OSW) industry supply chain. While major component manufacturing (nacelle, blades, towers, etc.) is not possible in the region due to scale and mass of structures, because water access is necessary for transportation, the region is well-positioned geographically and experientially to participate […]
African Irrigation System Funded by Rotary Club Completed
Imagine your life without water. You have no means to cook, clean yourself or your clothes – even worse you can’t grow any food to provide nourishment to you and your family. That is what millions of Africans face each day. But a local couple wanted to provide the life-sustaining necessity to an African village after they visited the continent […]
Offers In-Person Input Meeting About Point of Harvest OpportunitiesGate
Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD) has partnered with Virginia Tech (VT) to create a new program to increase the competitiveness, sustainability and profitability of wild harvested roots, herbs and barks by developing and educating a workforce of Point-of- Harvest certified harvesters who have access to price-premium markets. Root diggers, wild harvesters, ginseng dealers and buyers are invited to attend an in- […]
GC Man Killed in Car Crash
At 11:48 a.m. on March 8, Virginia State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash on Yuma Road, (Route 614) one mile west of Route 924. A 2021 Nissan Versa was traveling west on Yuma Road when it ran off the left side of the road and struck a utility pole. The driver, Robert P. Overbay Jr., 66, of Gate Cit, […]
Quinn Summary – The Middle Ages
I’ve been reading old articles we’ve had around the house since the 1980s. I keep a file folder near my desk that holds newspaper and magazine clippings. Some days I read about things that happened last year. Sometimes I read about inventions from 1975, Yesterday I read about the Middle Ages (not mine, but the world’s). Those folks suffered nearly […]
We Recall Fond Remembrances of the Good Old Days
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Sometimes, all of us have a tendency to remember our younger days. For some reason, the past day or so I’ve been thinking of my upbringing in Stanleytown where our family lived until I was 10 years old. Then we moved down the road a couple miles a little closer to the Rye Cove Community. In […]
Bank Hosts Seniors for VBA Bank Day Scholarship Program
On Tuesday, March 15, the Bank of Marion hosted local high school seniors for Bank Day, a statewide effort sponsored by the Virginia Bankers Association (VBA) Education Foundation and the VBA Emerging Bank Leaders. The program introduces students to the banking industry and helps them learn about careers in banking, financial services, and the vital role that banks across Virginia […]
