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This rhododendron towers over Virginia "Phoebe" Leach of Martinsville. She planted it 30 years ago, a Mother's Day gift from her daughter.

The museum, in the former Imperial Savings and Loan building at 211 Fayette St., Martinsville, will be open from noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and Saturdays by appointment for the next two weeks, according to Curtis Millner, chairman of the FAHI board.

The Blackberry District representative announced Saturday that he has filed his paperwork to run for a fourth consecutive four-year term.

An increase in visitors at the Virginia Museum of Natural History is being attributed largely to the popularity of two dinosaur-themed exhibits.

Ken Cuccinelli and the Republican candidates for lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson, and attorney general, state Sen.

Pittsylvania Co., VA - Officials in Pittsylvania County are looking for three people they say stole lottery tickets from a store in Brosville on May 4. Deputies with the sheriff's office say they responded to a burglary alarm at the Barbers One Stop off Martinsville Highway.

The engineering/technology program began this year, and 29 students currently are enrolled in the academy, Dr.

Martinsville Bulletin, Inc. P. O. Box 3711 204 Broad Street Martinsville, Virginia 24115 276-638-8801 Toll Free: 800-234-6575 A Patrick County man was pronounced dead at the scene of an automobile accident Wednesday morning, according to a news release from the Virginia State Police.

Martinsville City Council on Tuesday night approved, on first reading, a fiscal year 2013-14 budget that city officials have described as basically revenue neutral.

Businesses such as those at 23 Fayette St. have taken advantage of a grant for facade improvements, and work either is underway or planned on some other properties.

Workers begin to lay the foundation for the NCI building on the Baldwin Block in uptown Martinsville on Tuesday.

Thomas Aquino and Chris Young discuss a petition that seeks to remove Martinsville City Councilwoman Sharon Brooks Hodge on Tuesday in uptown Martinsville.

The Martinsville School Board, at its meeting Monday night, scheduled spring break for March 31 through April 4 next school year.

Carlisle School exchange student Feng Cheng Xu is dressed by Martinsville fireman Dwayne Robertson.

The 5th annual Rooster Walk Music & Arts Festival is set to go down once again in Martinsville, VA over Memorial Day weekend in the scenic rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

City residents on Tuesday will have an opportunity to voice to Martinsville City Council their concerns about the proposed fiscal 2014 budget.

Hunter Hendricks and Mahetab Bayoumy, Martinsville Middle School students in the NASA SEMAA program, study lunar and meteorite samples on loan from NASA.

To help local summer camps expand to serve more area young people, a $103,703 community partnership grant from the Harvest Foundation has been awarded to The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge, The Family YMCA and MHC After 3. These three organizations will work together to serve more low-income youth in their programs this summer, according to ... (more)

Martinsville aims to spread Community Development Block Grant projects to all areas of the city qualifying for aid, according to a city official.

Duke Cancer Institute gave patients and their supporters a break from everyday struggles with its sixth annual Spa Day last week.