Montgomery County News

A gypsy moth caterpillar infestation caused these defoliated trees on Brush Mountain at Poverty Creek Gap in Montgomery County.

Police appear to be investigating matters at Montgomery County's chamber of commerce.

The Blacksburg Angels played the Montgomery County All-Stars in a Dixie Angels District 3 tournament over the weekend, and Wendell Jones shares this photo gallery of the action.

In her four years in Montgomery County, Tiffany Anderson grew into the superintendent's job, supporters say.

Dan Swafford always wanted to see a bear in the wild. A high school teacher and amateur photographer, Swafford and his wife ride around Montgomery County two or three nights a week during the summer, looking in vain for bears.

The board of supervisors in Montgomery County is looking for applicants for the adjustment and appeals board.

The money would help students with reading and writing. Two local school divisions hope to use more than $850,000 in federal stimulus money to improve students' reading and math skills and boost parent involvement in schools that receive Title 1 grants.

June 22, 2009 New administrator for Montgomery County Montgomery County has a new person in its' top spot.

The number of New River Valley beekeepers is growing, even as experts say the number of honeybees continues to decline.

A local man who set off a countywide response is arrested for recklessly handling a firearm.

Lt. Col. Andy Munera took the command, and Blackberry, for the next two years. Lt. Col.

Updated: 10:54 a.m. A town of Christiansburg worker was struck and killed by an SUV this morning on U.S. 460 in Montgomery County, authorities said.

June 11, 2009 Christiansburg women charged with animal cruelty Montgomery County Animal Control charged them with multiple counts of animal cruelty and for not providing proper care, rabies vaccinations, food and water.

A nurse anesthetist who worked for decades at hospitals in Pulaski and Montgomery County pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges that he stole the medicine that was supposed to numb patients undergoing surgery.

VDOT says the accident scene has been cleared, and both lanes of I-81 northbound are back open.

Lawsuits filed by the families of two students slain in the mass killings as Virginia Tech two years ago have been transferred to the jurisdiction where the school is located.

There was a crowd Tuesday outside the Gilbert Linkous Elementary School library, the polling location for precinct G2.

The New River Valley Competitiveness Center has received mixed support from area towns and counties.

A 19-year-old man was taken by helicopter to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital on Saturday night after the car he was driving crashed head-on into a tree in Montgomery County, police said.

As of 8:15 a.m. Friday, the National Weather Service reports that Mountain View Church in Floyd County has measured 2.8 inches of rain in the past 24 hours -- the highest amount for any station in the New River Valley.