Franklin County News Archives

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.

"I figured I'd be back to work and pay it back within six months at the most," says Michael Hall, an out of work contractor.

"In this instance they did not see it as an immediate threat to our students. They knew who the players were, they knew the extent of what was going on," explains Ferrum College Spokesperson Natalie Faunce.

A spokesperson for Ferrum College says two students have been released from the hospital after a shooting incident early Sunday morning.

Two Ferrum College students are shot in what Franklin County deputies are saying was a fight over a girl at an off-campus party.

Another $60,000 worth of marijuana was seized by police this week, bringing this year's county eradication program total to over $3 million.

Residents will get a chance to review the Franklin County Parks & Recreation's comprehensive plan this month.i3 4 The first community meeting will be held tonight in Rocky Mount in The Franklin Center's multi-purpose room from 5 to 7 p.m. Other meetings will be held on Oct.

Virginia's one-of-a-kind Illegal Whiskey Unit -- a team of agents dedicated to busting up bootleg stills -- has fallen prey to state budget woes, leaving southwest Virginia's elusive moonshiners without a full-time, dedicated foe for the first time in decades.

The surveys are in, Franklin County's first 15-year comprehensive county plan for parks and recreation is drafted, and now residents can have their say.

A crane operator has been killed after his machine fell off a barge into Smith Mountain Lake.

Friends of the man who died tell me his name was Roger Goad, and also known affectionately as "peanut." Watch WSLS starting at 5:00 p.m. for on-air coverage.

Weather permitting, starting Sunday, Oct. 4, nighttime lane closures may be in place for paving on the section of Route 40 east between its intersections with Route 706 and Route 655 .

The Moving Wall has made its way to Franklin County. It's a half-scale version of the original Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., and it's on display at the Franklin County Recreational Park.

A half sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. is in Franklin County until Ocotber 5th.