Tazewell County News

Tazewell County residents are polarized on the windmill issue. Some are in favor of the wind turbines while some are adamantly opposed.

As of Monday Nov. 9, Captain Anne Hickman, has taken over the role of former Chief of Detectives, Captain David Mills at the Tazewell County Sheriff's Department.

The election in the Commonwealth is over. It seems that at least for another year the election process is over in the Virginia, or is it? Virginia, like the other 49 states, will choose her U.S. Congressional representatives next November in 2010.

By JIM TALBERT\Staff TAZEWELL - Charges of manslaughter, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and shooting into an occupied dwelling house were certified to grand jury Nov.

Voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia have spoken in the state's closely watched election.

It's election day in Virginia. Voters will choose a new Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General and Virginia General Assembly members.

TAZEWELL, Va. - Voters will decide contested races Tuesday across Southwest Virginia, including two seats on the Virginia General Assembly.

Chesterfield County Public Schools will receive a windfall of nearly $671,000 from savings on bonds refinanced this year by the state.

FROG LEVEL, Va. - A few members of the Frog Level Yacht Club raised their bottles and/or cans of beer high in a salute to the end of one era and beginning of another, as the family of one of Tazewell County's most loyal and most interesting native sons received a memorial resolution from the state he loved.

TAZEWELL, Va. - Although the weather outside was unseasonably warm Wednesday afternoon, many used the nice day to seek home heating assistance in anticipation of the next blast of cold weather.

Virginia game officials will study the consequences of increasing the number of Rocky Mountain elk in the state's remote southwest corner, a move opposed by cattle farmers fearful of the spread of disease.

A stand-off that lasted several hours ended with the death of a county man October 17.

Schools in Tazewell County are offering H1N1 vaccines this week. Graham High School in Bluefield, Va., will begin to disperse the vaccinations on Wednesday.

By JIM TALBERT\Staff BAPTIST VALLEY - A few years after public water made its way to this part of Tazewell County, officials gathered to break ground for sewer.

After firing three rounds at sheriff's deputies during an hours-long standoff at his estranged girlfriend's house Saturday night, a Tazewell man turned the shotgun on himself.

BLUEFIELD, Va. - Angela Brinnegar was smiling from ear to ear as 35 to 40 of her friends gathered in her new home in the West Graham section of Bluefield, Va.

Bursts of scarlet and gold are blooming midst the fading green of summer, and foresters say better is yet to come in another week to 10 days.

Russell Co., Va. - She lost one of her sandals as the four-seat, single-engine Piper plowed into the treetops in the Jefferson National Forest, its left wing shearing off before the fuselage thudded to the forest floor.

TAZEWELL, Va. - Tazewell County officials are hoping to get tough on poorly maintained properties.

Ground has been broken for the first phase of a business park in southwest Virginia that economic development officials say will create more than 800 jobs.