Woolwine News

As the leaves begin to take on their autumn hues and visitors arrive for the 73rd Mountain State Forest Festival, Kyatt Elizabeth Lee Bailey will begin her role as Woodly the Elf.

Brooks Bradbury, general manager of Primland's hospitality division, was elected chairman of the Patrick County Tourism Advisory Council June 22.

It wasna t just the bridges that drew Perry Frye to the Woolwine Covered Bridge Festival on Saturday.

The fifth annual Woolwine Covered Bridge Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Sheppard, 18, of 825 Salem Highway, Stuart, died about 5:45 p.m. Saturday in an accident on Interstate 95 near Benson, N.C.He was returning home from a beach trip to mark his June 6 graduation from Patrick County High School, according to his grandmother, Connie Wood.

Pastor John Michael Hyde Dies Pastor John Michael "Pastor Jack" Hyde 65, of Woolwine, Va.

Portions of a Woolwine lumber business in existence since 1933 burned Thursday night, and the business's owner estimated the cost of the damage in the millions.

Patrick firm buys Henry County plant Thursday, April 16, 2009 Hopkins Lumber Contractors Inc.