The head of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce has left his job amid a Blacksburg police investigation into unspecified matters at the organization, the chamber’s attorney said Tuesday.
Reporters Amy Matzke-Fawcett and Jeff Sturgeon have more on this story.
Roger Henderson has been named the new girls basketball coach at Blacksburg High School.
We have more details on our Pressbox sports blog.
Virginia Tech today announced the appointment of a new vice president for student affairs. He is Frank Shushok Jr., presently a dean at Baylor University in Texas:
Here's the full release from Virginia Tech: Read more »
Pulaski County schools superintendent Don Stowers will retire, effective Jan. 1, according to a news release from the school system.
Here it is in full:
Paul L. Phillips, Chairperson, Pulaski County Public Schools, has announced that the Pulaski County School Board has accepted the resignation of Donald E. Stowers, Superintendent, effective January 1, 2010. Stowers is retiring after having served as an educator in Virginia for over 39 years.
Stowers was appointed as superintendent of Pulaski County Public Schools in August 2001 after having served as an assistant superintendent and principal of a junior high school, middle school, and two (2) high schools in Virginia Beach. His first teaching position was as an English teacher at Christiansburg High School in 1970.
The Pulaski County School Board will solicit the guidance of the Virginia School Boards Association to assist it in the developing of a process for the superintendent’s replacement and securing of candidates for the position of superintendent.
On Friday, Carilion New River Valley lost phone and fax service for about five hours. Before press time, a representative could not be reached, but later this email came in from Verizon:
"[Friday] about 8 a.m. we had power trouble with some equipment serving the hospital and about other customers in the area- about 200 phone lines total. We repaired the equipment and service was restored around noon."
Here's a recap of Saturday's brief about the situation:
The outage was first noticed at Carilion between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m., and service was restored at 9:15 a.m., said Allison Buth, media relations specialist for Carilion Clinic. There was no interruption in patient care during the outage, Buth said.
A local representative for Verizon, Carilion NRV's provider, said he could not release details of any problems and directed questions to Verizon's corporate headquarters.
--Amy Matzke-Fawcett
Matt Arkema, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound offensive lineman from Midlothian High School, has become the 10th football player to commit to Virginia Tech for 2010.
Sportswriter Doug Doughty has more details on Arkema.
The Blacksburg-based Christian rock band has been nominated for a Grammy and won two Dove Awards. You can hear an interview with the band’s Brian Bunn on music writer Tad Dickens’ cut’n’scratch music blog.
We've just updated Radford's searchable crime database with last week's offenses. In all, police reported 12 offenses during the week of June 14-24. Among them were one burglary, two assults, one drug case and one sex crime.
You can see a map of where these offenses took place -- or you can search the database yourself, by date, by location or by offense.
The Radford crime database is part of our Datasphere site of searchable data. Among other things you can find: The biggest fish ever caught in Virginia. The state's biggest polluters. Or the state's top high school football recruits.
At its June 1 meeting, the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors approved a long list of promotions, tenure and continued appointments. The list came out today.
Here's the full release: Read more »
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality responded to a Freedom of Information Act request today by Lerone Graham asking for photos in the investigation that led to 200 counts of failure to bury dead animals against a Pulaski County man. Here are some of the photos:
Read the full story here.
