The remnants of a hurricane that struck the South Carolina coast lifted the New River to a height that even Hurricane Helene couldn’t quite match.
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She knows ‘success’ in recovery is a lifelong process
Mia Stanley, who kicked a 20-year oxycodone habit and turned her life around, recently relapsed.
Posted inOpinion
10 things to know about Virginia’s latest population projections
Here are some of the highlights: The Lynchburg metro will add more people than the Roanoke and New River valleys combined. Loudoun will add more people in the next 25 than the past 25. But some localities will become shells of their former selves.
Posted inEducation
Averett University plans to sell athletic campus to Danville Regional Foundation, additional ‘regional investors’
The purchase price adds up to nearly the amount that the financially strapped university says was withdrawn from its endowment between 2022 and 2024 to cover the school’s bills. Averett would lease back the property for at least 10 years.
Posted inSports
‘This small area can produce big things.’ Black history museum honors pro athletes from Martinsville
The Fayette Area Historical Initiative launches an exhibit featuring pro athletes from Martinville, the earliest dating to 1916.
Posted inLocal
Martinsville city manager’s termination temporarily deferred as council seeks to comply with city charter
After a 60-day suspension with pay, Aretha Ferrell-Benavides’ termination will again take effect.
Posted inLocal
Montgomery County Planning Commission will consider regional hazard plan
The plan addresses several types of risk found throughout the region. The planning commission will also vote to approve a plat for the Walnut Creek subdivision.
Posted inNews Briefs
U.S. Senate passes funding bills that include 7 projects in Southwest and Southside
The funding measures now head to the U.S. House.
Posted inNews Briefs
Headlines from across the state: Attorney general files appeal to lift suspension of Youngkin appointees from Virginia college governing boards; more …
From elsewhere: Virginia Democrats will again try to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. Virginia Chamber CEO resigns after four months. 2026 trial date for Spotsylvania judge charged with bribery.
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A woman saved Isle of Wight’s courthouse records during the Revolution; an enslaved man saved them during the Civil War
When British soldiers approached, Elizabeth Bennett Young, the wife of an Isle of Wight County deputy clerk, spirited the county records away and buried them.