Hay and corn crops are suffering, and some cattle farmers are having to haul water and put out hay for their livestock.
Susan Cameron
Susan Cameron is a reporter for Cardinal News. She has been a newspaper journalist in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee for nearly 40 years. She is based in Bristol. Reach her at susan@cardinalnews.org or 276-791-5928.
Posted inEconomy
Tazewell-based mining equipment manufacturer expanding into Russell County, creating 75 jobs
Simmons Equipment Co. will move into two buildings in Lebanon. Hiring is underway.
Posted inEconomy
Developer withdraws application for Washington County solar farm
Catalyst Energy Partners plans to come back with a second proposal that has a smaller footprint.
Posted inCulture
Trail to popular Devil’s Bathtub swimming hole gets safety improvements
The project added three new trail segments and eliminated five stream crossings.
Posted inCulture
Bristol’s only documented lynching will finally get a marker
But the marker won’t be at the actual site where leaders of the effort believe the 1891 lynching occurred, nor will soil be collected from the site as part of the remembrance project, because the property owner won’t allow it.
Posted inEducation
State board approves plan for Old Dominion-led lab school network
Five colleges’ lab schools — which were approved earlier and then deemed ineligible for funding — had just six weeks to find a public partner.
Posted inEducation
Old Dominion University offers to act as fiscal agent, partner for 5 lab schools that face loss of state funding
If the plan is approved Friday by the Virginia Board of Education, ODU would oversee a network of nine lab schools.
Posted inEconomy
$12 million agricultural campus set to rise between Bristol and Abingdon
The nonprofit Appalachian Sustainable Development unveiled plans for the site that include an agriculture business development hub, a food hub, a greenhouse and gardens.
Posted inEconomy
Citizens group will continue effort to remove Russell County board chair despite vote halting landfill negotiations
Residents opposed to the proposed landfill have fought the plan for months.
Posted inEconomy
Russell County votes to end negotiations over controversial landfill plan
Opponents of the project who packed Monday night’s board of supervisors meeting cheered the vote.
