Union Hall News

A Union Hall man was killed when his motorcycle struck a deer and slid underneath a truck on Route 40 East early Monday morning.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: Excavating Contractor Paul Shively Friday morning relocates a large river rock from downstream to the front of Rocky Mount s water treatment plant s low-head dam on the Blackwater River.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: Excavating Contractor Paul Shively Friday morning relocates a large river rock from downstream to the front of Rocky Mount s water treatment plant s low-head dam on the Blackwater River.

Work is moving forward on a low-head dam on the Blackwater River where two people have died in the past two months.

The low-head dam on the Blackwater River at the Rocky Mount Water Treatment Plant has claimed the life of a second canoer within the past two months.

Jumping off the Cliffs, located on the Blackwater River portion of Smith Mountain Lake, has been a popular pastime of lake-goers for decades.

A popular summer pastime is now being banned at Smith Mountain Lake. Even if you've never done it, you've probably heard about the cliff-jumping at the lake in Franklin County.

Phillip Swicegood fishes from a concrete area above the Pigg River low-head dam at Veterans' Memorial Park in Rocky Mount.

On Sunday afternoon, authorities identified the Franklin County man who drowned Saturday in the Blackwater River just north of Rocky Mount.