2022-08-24 E-Edition

Eagle Pride

A new tile floor greeted students at Rye Cove High School last week that shows off the school’s pride in their Eagles. The stylized Eagle mascot is prominently featured in one of the hallways in the school.

Students Sent Home for Non-Compliance With Vaccine Requirements

New health guidelines that require students to get additional vaccines forced county schools to send some students home on the very first day of school. Jordan Mullins, principal at Twin Springs High School, noted the first day of school went well except for a few students that weren’t allowed to attend due to the updated vaccine guidelines. New immunization requirements […]

New Digital Radios Coming to Weber City Police Department



The Weber City Town Council more changes to the police department and distribution of their remaining trash cans at last week’s regular monthly meeting. All council members, Justin Addington, Eileen Deckard, Robert Hammonds, Greg Smith, Teresa Tilson and Larry Wagner, along with Mayor Chris Powers and Town Attorney Mike Carrico were present at the meeting held Aug. 16 at 7 […]

WC Man Dies in Early Morning Accident

A Weber City man was struck and killed in the early morning hours last Tuesday while crossing the roadway. Virginia State Police responded to the crash Aug. 16 at 4:34 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. Highway 23 and Wadlow Gap Highway. Drugs are being investigated as a contributing factor in the crash. A 2013 Mack tractor-trailer was traveling north […]

LPRIFA Receives $6.4 Million Grant for New Business Facility

Last week, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $6.4 million grant to the Lonesome Pine Regional Industrial Facilities Authority, Duffield. The grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan and EDA’s $300 million Coal Communities Commitment and will be used to construct a new multi-tenant business facility. According to […]

VDSS to Release Summer P-EBT Benefits Aug. 25

Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) has received federal approval to issue retroactive Summer P-EBT benefits to eligible K-12 students. As food security continues to be a challenge for many Virginia households with school-age children, VDSS is able to offer this temporary assistance to individuals and families in need of nutritional support. The additional P-EBT benefit will provide approximately $276 […]

Daily Walk




Obedience How bitter-cold the night you prayed that I should take you to your goal! I did not care to go; God heard your prayer and through it touched my soul. Reluctantly conceded I and found it was not but your whim, for through obedience I was blessed and sweet communion had with him!

Dungannon Alumni Association Holds Recognition Banquet



Let’s send a huge congratulations and best wishes to my first cousin Max Hackler and wife Joan Palmer Hackler, Kingsport, Tenn. This past week, they just celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. That is significant and epoch making. Max and Joan grew up in Scott County and graduated from Rye Cove Memorial High School. They are blessed to have good Scott […]

Funds for LPRIFA Grant Benefit Region

Craig Seaver, who formerly served as manager of Natural Tunnel State Park and director of Virginia State Park, is the director of Lonesome Pine Regional Industrial Facilities Authority. He explains how the federal funding the organization received will benefit the region. According to Seaver, the $6.4 million grant received by the LPRIFA from the Economic Development Administration will be used […]