Nickelsville News

Locality: Wise County Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park 10 W. First Street and Wood Avenue Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 Dedicated in 1948, the Southwest Virginia Museum in Big Stone Gap chronicles the exploration and development of the region.

As more families struggle to make ends meet, Virginia's food banks need help feeding hungry people.

A Southwest Virginia man is dead after his car hit another vehicle head-on, and emergency crews say he wasn't wearing a seat belt.

An earthquake measuring between 2.5 and 2.9 on the Richter Scale was reported shortly before 10 a.m. this morning near Nickelsville in the eastern portion of Scott County.

A 2.5 earthquake hit Scott County, Virginia this morning. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was centered about 3 miles from Nickelsville, about 6 miles from Dugannon, 9 miles Castlewood, 17 miles from Birstol, Tennessee.

Please mail information to Reunions, The Coalfield Progress, P.O. Box 380, Norton, Va.

Published by the Scott County Virginia Star on Wednesday, July 1, 2009. For county residents wanting to find the closest solid waste convenience site, the county's E-911 staff compiled the following list.

A spotted, 5-week-old deer got off to a rough start Friday: While strolling a lonely stretch of Stagecoach Road with his mother about 8:30 a.m., a car plowed him over.