“Farm and Fun Time” launched as a radio show in the 1940s and was revived in 2015 by Radio Bristol, part of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
Jeff Lester
Jeff Lester served for five years as editor of The Coalfield Progress in Norton, The Post in Big Stone Gap and the Dickenson Star in Clintwood. He has worked in rural community journalism in Southwest Virginia for nearly 35 years, beginning as a Coalfield Progress staff writer in early 1990. Lester grew up in Marion and in the Glade Spring area and is a proud graduate of Virginia Intermont College and Virginia Highlands Community College. He has won numerous Virginia Press Association awards, including the 2002 statewide best in show writing award for nondaily newspapers. Under his guidance, Coalfield Progress reporters won the same award in 2008. He can be reached at jeff.c.lester819@gmail.com.
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Agenda Lynchburg: Real estate and lodging tax rates up for vote
To keep tax bills roughly the same as they are now, the council would need to lower the rate to 76.7 cents per $100 of assessed value.
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Agenda Montgomery County: Emergency radio system, money for schools to be discussed
Also, the board expects to get an update report on various county capital improvement projects, hold a discussion on school safety and talk about the structure of the county Public Service Authority.
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Agenda Lynchburg: Council expected to vote on real estate tax rate
Also on the table is a proposal to raise the hotel tax, which has stirred opposition from the travel industry.
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Agenda Montgomery County: Supervisors will discuss additional funds for public safety
One possible project is a bunkhouse for the Elliston fire department.
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Agenda Montgomery County: Board appointments, church expansion
County staff recommends limiting uses of the rezoned property.
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Rare 1950 recording by the Stanley Brothers found broken but has been restored through 3D technology
Selected songs will be played Thursday at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol.
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Agenda Lynchburg: Joint city-schools committee will meet Tuesday
Committee members will vote on final recommendations for many items, including a future school closure and school rezonings.
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Agenda Montgomery: County supervisors to discuss major housing development proposal
Fotheringay LLC, which owns the historic Fotheringay home and nearby property, is asking supervisors to amend the county’s comprehensive plan to allow development of as many as 473 homes near the Eastern Montgomery middle and high schools.
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A small town near the state line appears to be a hot spot for cannabis lovers
The sale of cannabis in Virginia remains illegal, but in Southwest Virginia, stores are popping up that test the legal limits. Weber City in Scott County now has four stores where customers can receive cannabis as a “gift.”