High winds fan wildfire
A wildfire burned about four acres off Stamper’s Bay Road on Monday near Hartfield, said Virginia State Forester Ken Sterner.
posted 03.11.2009
Fire destroys Locust Hill home
State Police arson investigators are looking into a suspicious fire that destroyed a mobile home in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Road in Locust Hill on Thursday, Feb. 26, said Alan Blake, chief of the Hartfield Volunteer Fire Department.
posted 03.11.2009
Supervisor touts pump and haul sewage option
The cost of the new sewage treatment plant is estimated at about $4.5 million. The annual cost to pump and haul the sewage is about $25,000.
posted 03.11.2009
Daylight Savings Time To Begin
"Spring Forward" by setting your clocks ahead one hour this Sunday. Daylight saving time goes into effect at 2 a.m. March 8. This is only the third year that daylight saving time has begun the second Sunday in March.
posted 03.07.2009
March snowstorm stuns Middlesex
March roared in like a lion Sunday night and Monday morning as a major winter storm came up the East Coast and dumped 4 to 6 inches of snow on top of ice in most areas of Middlesex. The storm was accompanied by high winds and frigid temperatures.
posted 03.04.2009
NAACP seeks to honor civil rights leader
Local African American leaders have proposed that civil rights pioneer Irene Morgan be memorialized with a highway marker in Saluda near the site where she was arrested in 1944 for failing to move to the “colored” section at the back of a bus. Morgan’s landmark decision pre-dated the more-famous case of Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
posted 03.04.2009
