Bland County, Virginia News
School Board to buy new sports uniforms
The Bland County School Board gave out an early Christmas gift last week, agreeing at its monthly meeting to approve the purchase of new uniforms for the varsity baseball team.
“We’re in dire straits in providing modern or appealing uniforms for our baseball teams,” said Superintendent Don Hodock. “We want out kids to look nice.”
Grapefield Road resident complains about truck traffic
Grapefield Road resident Kathy Pruett asked Bland Supervisors on Friday to do something about the tractor-trailers traveling past her home. She said the road, which runs by Wolf Creek Golf and Country Club and on into Tazewell County, sees a lot of traffic anyway. But this summer, with gas prices soaring, she said, “we were flooded with tractor-trailers.”
The Wolf Creek Indian Village amp; Museum will have a new owner in early 2009. The tourist attraction will become the property of the Bland County Board of Supervisors as the Bland County Historical Society relinquishes ownership.
SENIOR MOMENT: Christmas Eve will find us
Barry Manilow, Bing Crosby, Amy Grant, the Beach Boys and many other artists have recorded the well-known musical lyrics “Christmas Eve will find me….I’ll be home for Christmas if only in my dreams.”
Possum Philosophy: Home and shopping holiday mishaps
So here we are, staring a new year square in the eye. I have to say, I do hope it is better than the one we are just finishing up. I don’t think I remember a more difficult one. In fact, I doubt that anyone born after the Great Depression (late 1920s to early 1930s) will remember a more challenging situation economically. After all, it has been a long, long time since…
Column: Hold onto Christmas story when coping with post-holiday blues
STRICTLY OBSERVING: Striking up the holiday band
Column: Hold onto Christmas story when coping with post-holiday blues
I am depressed. The depression did not sneak up on me. In fact, I planned to be depressed. Christmas is now gone by two days. I planned to be depressed when it left.
STRICTLY OBSERVING: Striking up the holiday band
It was a pleasure to attend the 19th annual winter performance of the Wytheville Community College Concert Band on Dec. 9.nbsp; Their program, Home for the Wonderland, presented more holiday selections than in previous years and proved to be an excellent show.nbsp; Approaching a decade-long tenure as director of the band, Bill Svec personally arranged the title number for…
Bus boy
Bus boy
The year is 2021. It’s early summer and recent college graduate Jared Havens has arrived in High Point, N.C., to start his new job as a designer for Thomas Built Buses – a position he initially was offered nearly 13 years ago. The young man pauses as he prepares to sit down at his desk and thinks back even further, back nearly two decades, back to the day he first spotted…
2008: The year in review
2008: The year in review
Bland County students accomplished many firsts in 2008. The girls’ basketball team made it all the way to the state semifinals. The Rocky Gap FFA rolled to a first-place tie at the state Forestry Field Day. And the theater team claimed its first district title with a moving performance of “A Thousand Cranes.” Students, though, weren’t the only busy Bland County…
SENIOR MOMENT: Recycling Christmas
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SENIOR MOMENT: Recycling Christmas
Only a week ago we were wrapping last-minute gifts, attending church programs, and baking more food than we could consume while melodious carols played softly on the radio station. Christmas, with its months of planning and preparation, now seems only a blur of pleasant memories.
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