Norton News

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Congress will take up health care reform next week, so President Barack Obama presented his plans during a Town Hall meeting Wednesday in Annandale, Virginia.

BIG STONE GAP, Va. - There's a whole lot riding on an abandoned rail spur even though trains no longer do.

The curtain is coming down on a live music program in downtown Bristol, but organizers said Wednesday they hope to revive it later this year.

Fred 'Derf' Clark Davis Collier II, 29, of Poudre Canyon, died June 1, 2009. He was born July 29, 1947 in Norton, Va.

Dick Bunter , of Winston-Salem, and Jimmy Kiernan, of Christiansburg, Va., do a little flat-footing Saturday night at the Mount Airy Blue Grass and Old Time Fiddlers Convention.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and his staff are hitting the road again. Kaine, his cabinet and members of his senior staff are conducting their 14th Community Cabinet Day today.

Gov. Tim Kaine, his cabinet and members of his senior staff are coming to town Friday, June 5, as part of a Cabinet Community Day event.

Neighborhood Watch Programs set Sheriff Ronnie Oakes and the Wise County Sheriffa TMs Office are coordinating Neighborhood Watch programs throughout Wise County.

The Big Stone Gap Planning Commission has set two meetings for Monday, May 11, the first at 5:30 p.m. to elect a chairman and vice-chairman and take care of organizational matters, and the second at 6 p.m. for a regular meeting.

May 9, 2009 AT&T to acquire several Verizon properties in Virginia AT&T has announced plans to acquire several properties from Verizon Wireless.

For more than 20 years, Norton city officials fruitlessly sought state and federal funding to build a sewage system for the 100 homes in the Josephine area now using septic tanks or a line to a river.

The Great American Cleanup, coordinated locally by Keep Southwest Virginia Beautiful, follows the current "green" movement with the theme, "Green Starts Here." Keep America Beautiful, the national organization that leads this program, chose this theme to remind families that a better environment for everyone starts in our own communities.

NORFOLK - The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, The News & Advance of Lynchburg, Style Weekly of Richmond and Richmond Magazine each won two best-in-show awards from the Virginia Press Association.

More help is on the way for miners in southwest Virginia who lost their jobs because they were addicted to prescription painkillers.

A self-described 'leftover from the '60s,' Mary Baldwin College professor John Wells said teaching sociology classes on the decade is the perfect job for him.

Several gentlemen who don the red suit in the Tri-Cities region traveled to Gatlinburg this week for Celebrate Santa 2009.

Appalachian music will soon ring out from the Twin City's historic train station, thanks to a new weekly program that will be broadcast on television.

Bob_Cherry wrote: on Mar. 11, 2009: If you love music and books, you will not want to miss this concert, to be held on Sunday April 5th in the Goodloe Center at Mountain Empire Community College.

HAYSI, Va. - To sell 1,000 boxes of anything, you're probably going to have to get at least a little bit obsessed.