Lambsburg News

From left: Christine Lyons, Doris Lyons and Guy Clark stand proudly in front of fully-stocked bookshelves inside the Lambsburg Community Center.

For the fifth time in 2009, the Carroll County Public Service Authority has been awarded federal economic stimulus funds for a public water and/or wastewater system.

While initial reports from the first batch of air, soil and water sample didna t indicate any signs of contamination, EPA On-Scene Coordinator Jack Kelly said X-Ray Fluorescence screening of surface soil for potential metals contamination last week at 496 Old Pipers Gap Road did indicate signs of elevated arsenic.

A Lambsburg resident had some acid words for Carroll County officials who he said ignored problems at a business with hazardous wastes, which recently prompted an emergency clean up.

Workers with Kemron Environmental Services work to unload computer parts and acid off one of six trailers full of acid at 496 Old Pipers Gap Road in Lambsburg last week.

The intervention of the Environmental Protection Agency at a contaminated Lambsburg site is another example of God's hand guiding the future of Truth to New Life Church, the church's leader believes.

Thirty minutes and three witnesses was all it took for a Carroll judge to certify first-degree murder charges against a Cana man to the grand jury.

LAMBSBURG, Va. -- Don Garren likes a challenge. He likes to tinker with old phonographs and make jewelry in his big workshop.

Mayor Bill Tate is getting impatient with the town's inability to relaunch the Hillsville Rescue Squad.

Mayor Bill Tate is getting impatient with the town's inability to relaunch the Hillsville Rescue Squad.

Carroll County PSA Chairman Sam Dickson uses a map to show the progress the county has made in adding water and sewer services throughout Carroll over the past two years.

Effective Jan. 1, 2010, Carroll County citizens will no longer put county decals on their vehicles.

Carroll supervisors voted to peel off county decals off vehicle windshields for good Monday.

Lambsburg residents are still wondering what they can do to restart their rescue squad, which Carroll County decided not to dispatch anymore after an alleged breach of protocols.

The effort to keep tractor-trailers from getting stuck on Lambsburg Mountain hit a roadblock in May when Carroll supervisors learned it would apply to dump trucks, too.

Much like the tractor trailers that try to negotiate Lambsburg Mountain, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors were left stuck after a public hearing regarding Route 620 restrictions on May 11.

Lambsburg Rescue Squad members want answers as to why they were shut down, and they hope to get them at a community meeting May 29.

Two road-related public hearings have been scheduled for the May 11 meeting of the Carroll Board of Supervisors.

Seventy-five years ago on May 6, 1934, Dennis and Maggie Upchurch were married and after all these years they are not only still in love, but they are in relatively good health.

The Carroll County Board of Supervisors join officials from across the county April 13 to show off one of the signs declaring the region as Virginia's Entrepreneurial Region.