Gate City’s Theater Project to Seek Historic Tax Credits
The Gate City Economic Redevelopment and Revitalization Committee (EDARC) met Monday to discuss the next steps towards revitalizing the Gate City Theatre with the town’s architecture firm. The EDARC consists of Gate City council members, Cotton Roberts and Pat Elliott. The pair was joined by Mayor Bob Richards, Town Manager Greg Jones, Chris Venable and Lenore Weiss of Spectrum Design […]
Kilgore: General Assembly to Resolve DOE Error
Last week, state officials acknowledged that a formula posted to the Virginia Department of Education’s website for local school divisions to determine their allocation of state funding was flawed. The error was discovered Jan. 31 and allowed school divisions to overestimate the amount of basic aid they would receive in the two-year budget approved last June. Gov. Glenn Youngkin reassured […]
Local Foundation Seeks to Help First Responders
A Gate City policeman began a foundation in 2021 that takes care of its own by providing emergency funding to first responders in need. David ‘Cody’ Johnson is an officer with the Gate City Police Department, but he also serves as the CEO and president of the First Responders Outreach Foundation. The foundation, a recognized 501©3 organization, formed in early […]
DHS Alumni Present Mountain Treasure Award
Myron Salyer, a 1945 graduate of Dungannon High School, was honored as one of two Mountain Treasure awards presented by the Dungannon High School Alumni Association. Salyer graduated from high school at the age of 16. He served his country, entering the Army Air Force in 1946. He served in the reserves and was called to active duty during the […]
Fisk University Jubilee Singers to Perform Feb. 17 in Kingsport
The beat goes on at the Lazy Time Pickin’ Parlor over in Weber City. I drove over there last Friday. Usually, I make my appearance on Saturday. I enjoyed my visit and got to see lots of friends I hadn’t seen for several weeks. There was no one making music during my two-hour stay. The fellows had completed their weekly […]
Toddler Top Reader
Casen is the Baby Sprouts top reader for January at the Scott County Public Library. The library offers a Baby Sprouts class for two-year-olds every Tuesday and Thursday, from 11:30 a.m. to noon. A second Baby Sprouts class for children under two is held Fridays, from 11:30 a.m. to noon. For more information, contact Karla Harris at 386-3302.
Farm Family Seeks Help, Finds Healing in Season of Crisis
It was during busy harvest season when John Doe became increasingly agitated over a seemingly inconsequential personal matter. Negative feelings he’d buried years in the past were triggered unknowingly and came barreling back with frightening intensity. Jane Doe suddenly didn’t recognize the man she married when that emotional crisis blindsided their Central Virginia farm family in 2020. While dealing with […]