Bent Mountain News

The rain is good news for our area, but it did cause some problems Wednesday morning.

Archival photo of early ambulance with Bent Mountain First Aid and Rescue Crew - standing: Ronnie Overstreet, Terry Williams, Roger Carr, Tommy Nichols, Benny Baker, Johnny Collier.

July 4, 2008 Floyd County farm has provided haven for kids for 20 years Peter Lewis fell in love with the landscape at Apple Ridge more than 30 years ago and now it's something he loves to share.

June 30, 2008 Gypsy Moths still a problem in western Virginia Gypsy Moths may have faded from the headlines, but they haven't disappeared from the woodlands of western Virginia.

“Most of these dogs are more than a part of the family”

Phil Pickett, a veterinary ophthalmologist and faculty member at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, checks service dog Daisy's eyes while technician Betsy Snyder ... via Roanoke Times

Get an experimental folk two-fer from Asheville, N.C.-based Kipar. Locals joining him on stage in Roanoke and Blacksburg will include Camellia Delk, aka the hardest working keyboardist/violinist in the valleys. via Roanoke Times

Fire crews spent several hours Friday fighting a brush fire on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County. via Roanoke Times

Sometime around 1996 when I lived in Franklin County, a buddy of mine and I drove up to Roanoke to ride our bikes up Bent Mountain with some of the Roanoke guys. via WSLS-TV Roanoke

“She had to know he had a problemn her mind. I think she was a mother and she thought she could straighten him out on her own.”

Loretta Moran never had any problems out of the woman who once rented this house but says the woman's son, Jeffery Young, was another story. via WSLS-TV Roanoke

About 4,000 Appalachian Power Co. customers in the Roanoke and New River valleys were without power Friday evening after an ice storm hit the region. via Roanoke Times

“You're stuck with the same officers”

Windsor Hills supervisor Joe McNamara fields questions from the 50 or so on hand at civic league meeting The Back Creek Civic League held its quarterly meeting on Monday, with President Genny Henderson ... via Main Street Newspapers

“I think they think if they're down in flat land and the sun's going to always shine there, and that's what they've got. But that's not always so”

January 18, 2008 Crews work hard to get roads cleared for drivers The snow can make roads messy. via WDBJ7

“He's always good to everybody”

Hard times and bitter cold once brought desperate mothers and fathers to F.L. Hatcher & Son. via Roanoke Times

“But those problems are not a result of her having been born the way she was”

Hannah Wanner is the very definition of a precocious child. Back on March 21, two weeks ahead of her due date, she caught her mother off guard by deciding it was time to be born. via Roanoke Times

Verizon's DSL service expands in Roanoke area Equipment installations and upgrades by Verizon have expanded access in the Roanoke Valley to the company's high-speed Internet DSL service, Verizon announced ... via Roanoke Times

“Somebody's made the mistake that this isn't [done on] school time”

Artist Katherine Devine with some of the works she helped students create Bent Mountain Elementary School students were able to show off some of the work they created after Katherine Devine spent three days as ... via Main Street Newspapers