Franklin County News

Ferrum College will open its new campus safety and welcome center with an informal open house from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. today.

A local utility is springing forward toward a new future. Thursday morning, the Western Virginia Water Authority convened and voted in its newest member.

Students at Sontag and Snow Creek elementary schools became the first students in Franklin County to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine on Monday.

If he wins in Tuesday's election, John Lester said his top priority will be attracting new industries and jobs to Franklin County and Rocky Mount.

Republicans are hoping for "Cheers not tears" on Election night. That's just one of the sentiments expressed on a campaign stop in Rocky Mount Thursday afternoon.

Piney and She were girding up for the madness of Halloween. The ancient Druid rites for harvest had been joined by the Christian All Saints Day into a new kind of celebration .

The race for Virginia governor has gotten the most attention by the news media this fall, but Franklin County voters will be casting ballots in several other statewide and local races when they go to the polls Tuesday.

The new baked goods facility will create 84 jobs in Franklin County Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: Franklin County Board of Supervisors Chairman Charles Wagner, second from left, and Rocky Mount Mayor Steve Angle, left, present a wooden bowl to Empire Foods/TSG General Manager Nora Barker and Len Marek, the company s president and CEO.

Diamond Ave. residents still searching for alternate exit Staff Photo by Charles Boothe: A car crosses the Diamond Avenue bridge over Furnace Creek.

A new certificate program for college transfer students is being developed at Patrick Henry Community College .

For the fourth time in two years, constitutional offices around Virginia were hit with state budget cuts in early September.

U.S.i3 4 Army Col. Burdett K. Thompson, a former Franklin County resident, was presented the 2009 Ferrum College Distinguished Alumni Award during a recent meeting of the association.

Franklin County and the county's constitutional offices will share the burden of recent state budget cuts.

No-loitering signs and security guards were listed as possible solutions to the problem of teenage loitering at businesses in Rocky Mount Plaza Thursday afternoon.

Demonstration reminds students to be safe on homecoming weekend T.J. Shaw, who was killed in the Friday morning wreck at Franklin County High School is half in and half out of the vehicle, while two FCHS EMT students prepare one of the injured for transport.

Town officials are concerned that a water line construction project by Franklin County and the Western Virginia Water Authority could disrupt water service and fire protection in Boones Mill if the contractor breaks, cuts or damages one of the town's water lines.

Folklife stole the show at the Richmond Folk Festival. From gospel music to a parade of women in church hats, the CenterStage Virginia Folklife Stage was the place to be during the third and final day of the music, arts and crafts festival.

Carl Cundiff just sent me this awesome shot of his 13-year-old daughter, Cameron, with a great buck she shot in Franklin County on youth day.

A Glade Hill man has been charged with stabbing his brother and mother Monday afternoon at his mother's residence on Dundee Road.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office continues to search for the person responsible for a weekend shooting on Nolens Hill Road in Ferrum.