Bland News

A Bland County dairy farm won honors at the 2009 Wytheville-Wythe-Bland Chamber of Commerce Annual Membership Dinner Meeting.

CERES, Va. - H. Michael "Mike" Pruett, of Ceres, Va., went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 14, 2009.

Wytheville and Wythe County are continuing negotiations to consolidate dispatch services.

A brief School Board meeting Monday night at Bland High School featured updates from the principals at each of the county's four schools.

Freddie Gabbert was never at a loss for words. Even death couldn't change that. Gabbert, 63, died on Oct.

Making a difference in the community can take many shapes. That is the standard for choosing the Bland County Festival of Leaves Outstanding Citizens each year.

The sound of silence last week shot down a proposed tweak of the Bland County school system's suspension policy for students caught with tobacco on school grounds.

A Wythe County man working on a church roof in Bland on Tuesday morning was apparently electrocuted after contacting power lines.

A worker who was apparently electrocuted while putting a metal roof on a Bland County church on Tuesday morning was unresponsive when rescue personnel took him to a local hospital.

Grayson County will welcome only its third county administrator in history on June 1, as Jonathan Sweet returns home.

A Bland County man died Saturday night in a one-car wreck. Christopher Wayne Hounshell, 20, was killed when he lost control of his car just off Va.