2023-11-29 E-Edition

By ops@our-hometown.com | on November 28, 2023

Lighting of the Tunnel

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

Brittney Blevins shared this unique photo of Natural Tunnel State Park during a nighttime lighting of the tunnel event that focused on the moonlight shining down on the tunnel.

Gate City Fills Vacancy on Town Council

Michele Rusek Chosen to Fill Unexpired Term

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

Gabriel Edmunds
Staff Writer

The Gate City Town Council continued its regular monthly meet­ing from Nov. 14 to last Tuesday (Nov. 21) and voted to fill its vacant council seat. Michele Rusek was selected as the newest town council member to fill the seat left by the death of Allan ‘Cotton’ Roberts. The council met at the Gate City Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. […]

Shoe Fund Balance Bolts Past $11,000

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

Lots of donations have been received for an annual tradition that purchases new shoes and socks for deserving Scott County students. The Rotary Club of Scott County began its 34th annual Shoe Fund campaign a few weeks ago and they are cel­ebrating the receipt of an additional $4,280 in contributions to push the fund balance to $11,020. A total of […]

Juvenile Suspect IDed in Bomb Threat

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

The Scott County Sheriff’s Office reported that a suspect was identified in a pair of bomb threats that forced the closure of the Gate City Middle/High School complex in mid-November. Scott County Sheriff Jeff Edds advised that a juvenile’s involvement in the two incidents had been confirmed and declined to release any other information. “The subject’s involvement with the incident […]

Gate City Kicks Off Holiday Season With Annual Parade

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

The Christmas sea­son begins with a flour­ish this Saturday at 7 p.m. as Gate City hosts its annual Christmas parade. The theme for the 2023 parade is “It was the Night Before Christ­mas” and organizers ask that all participants begin line-up at 4 p.m. on Dec. 2 in the Gate City High School park­ing lot. Longtime Broad­water Drug employee, Jackie […]

Scott Library Presents A Downtown Window Storywalk

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

Scott County Pub­lic Library unveils its holiday StoryWalk on Friday, Dec. 1 as they present a Downtown Window StoryWalk along Jackson St. in Gate City, featuring the book “We Disagree About This Tree” by Ross Collins. The StoryWalk con­sists of deconstructed pages from a children’s book that are laminat­ed, attached to posters and displayed in shop windows for people to […]

Local Food Banks Receive Grants From Food City

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

Since 1992, Food City teamed up with their customers to host their annual Race Against Hunger cam­paign, which raises a substantial amount of money for local hunger relief organizations. This year’s drive helped to provide funds for two local food pan­tries serving Scott County and the sur­rounding area. Scott County Coop­erative Ministries Food Pantry and the Mendo­ta Food Bank recently […]

December is a Time for Musical Performances by Stallard

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

Jack Stallard
Thru the Gap Correspondent

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. Now, I suppose many of us will turn our atten­tion to getting ready for Christmas. In my case that doesn’t involve much. I do get out a Christmas tree from a storage area on my enclosed porch, hook it up, see if the lights work and then put out a few decorative Christmas things […]

Daily Walk

By LMCCarty | on November 28, 2023

Brenda Kegley
Special Writer

Here Comes Winter Seasons come and seasons go. Autumn leaves must fall. The splendor of the earth gives way to winter’s chilling call. Birds flock to now empty fields and gather in bare trees to leave the northern shores behind before the coming freeze. The earth grows still, and cold as unyielding wild winds roam. Through the twilight haze lights […]