A developer wants to turn the former Washington-Lee Elementary School property into apartments.
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.
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Owner of Bristol’s former Virginia Intermont campus says it’s making progress toward securing and improving the long-vacant site
U.S. Magis International, the property’s China-based owner, has engaged a security company and is hiring an architect to come up with a plan for improving the remaining buildings.
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Town hall on returning stormwater program to DEQ oversight set for Thursday in Washington County
Washington County leaders will discuss their plans to transfer the stormwater program administration back to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
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Bristol’s commissioner of revenue race is a rematch between two 2021 candidates
The race between incumbent Cloe-Eva Barker and challenger Steven Gobble Jr. is the only local contested race in the city.
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Eco-tourism project, affordable veterinary clinic among Southwest Virginia projects receiving abandoned mine land grants
The federal AMLER grants, which total $6.12 million, are intended to transform former coal mining land into sites for economic development.
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State Street paving project on Tuesday agenda for Bristol City Council
The city council will hear a presentation on a State Street repaving project, along with other improvements coming in 2026.
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Bristol issues 15-day compliance ultimatum to owner of former college property
Bristol City Manager Randy Eads said Tuesday that the company that owns the long-vacant Virginia Intermont campus has 15 days to take action or the city will seek a court order.
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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.
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Dickenson County’s new addiction treatment center brings long-term residential treatment to an area that has little
Proponents of the Addiction Recovery Care program say the length and depth of the program helps clients get and stay clean.
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Bristol City Council considers final approval of unsafe and blighted property ordinance
The resolution is likely aimed at the city’s issues with the former Virginia Intermont College site, which has been vacant for more than a decade.
