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Thousands of bees escaped after a tractor-trailer hauling bees to the Gulf Coast was struck on Interstate 81.

Governor Timothy M. Kaine recently announced appointments to the following boards and commissions: Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission Jim A. Baldwin of Abingdon, executive director of the ...

Damascus needs a lesson in hiring protocol after recently trying to lure another town's clerk away to work, then rescinding the job offer while claiming a conflict of interest.

Town Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to hire Tuesday Pope as the town's clerk.

Just as one Damascus, Va., controversy appears to be settled, another rears its head in the small Washington County, Va., town.

The Damascus Town Council hired a police chief and a clerk after a lengthy closed-session meeting on Wednesday.

The Washington County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at its regular meeting Tuesday to pursue two facilities projects: a new branch library in the Benhams community and possible use of the Johnston ...

Seven graduates from local high schools were given scholarships totalling $14,500. John Ribble was given an inaugural scholarship honoring Walter Hunt, the late former superintendent of Salem City Schools.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

More Professionals find jobs back in rural hometowns Keith Brown and his daughter Wendy Brown play with their pet dog Dido on the front porch of their home in Lebanon Va., April 10 2008.

With projects under way to expand or replace four of the county's five libraries, Washington County Public Library Director Charlotte Parsons hopes to make enough room for all the folks she says are crowding ...

An area community college is helping its students combat high gas prices by reducing the frequency of classes so students will commute less often.