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Montgomery County supervisors learned about changes to consider in the county’s proposed 2009-10 budget during a work session Monday night.
When county officials put together the proposed $158.9 million budget last month, they had to make cuts and reallocations, which included dipping into the rainy day fund, but a big question mark remained: the amount of aid the county would receive from the federal stimulus package and when it would arrive.
Rangers say no increase in bear activity has been reported at the Giles County recreation area.
A Pembroke man who was baiting bears at a popular Giles County recreation area pleaded guilty to six charges last week in federal court in Roanoke.
Merrill Conley, 54, was caught Oct. 23 baiting bear at the Cascades Recreation Area, according to Capt. Woody Lipps of the U.S. Forest Service. Conley’s actions had been under investigation for several weeks, Lipps said.
The increasing need and declining economy put officers and deputies in a tight spot.
BLACKSBURG — Declining revenues. Increasing calls for service. More pressure on local law enforcement.
That’s the cycle across Virginia and in Montgomery County as contracting local and state tax revenues bite ever larger chunks out of public-safety funding.
Blacksburg Transit buses will no longer have wireless internet access after Citizens Telephone Cooperative in Floyd terminated its mobile WiFi service.
The service was available on many Blacksburg Transit buses on an experimental basis that started in October 2006, according to Ken Tucker, marketing manager with Blacksburg Transit. In February, Citizens announced the end of its high-speed mobile Internet service, citing lack of subscribers and competition from other providers.
A Shawsville man was found guilty Tuesday of assault and battery and destruction of property for crashing through a window into a magistrate.
Dallas Calvin Gibson was also charged with attempted escape, but that charge was dismissed. He was ordered to spend 12 months in jail on each of the two convictions.
CHRISTIANSBURG — A man accused of setting fire to a restaurant to cover up an embezzlement waived a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
James Robert Steele, 32, was arrested Jan. 30 and charged with arson, embezzlement and destruction of property in connection with a fire at the Christiansburg Papa John’s earlier that week.
Yet another reason (cold, Palin) not to live in Alaska.
Mount Redoubt erupted again, and officials are warning that people near Cook Inlet and the Kenai Peninsula could find themselves under a rain of “razor-sharp volcanic ash.”
Per MSNBC:
Alaskan volcanic ash is like a rock fragment with jagged edges and has been used as an industrial [...]
Creating fully functional Web sites isn’t quite as simple as it should be.
I’m learning this as I’m working on a site for a group. The requirements are fairly simple. It should have:
Latest news and announcements on the home page
A message board
A photo/video gallery
Single sign-on (so you log into the site once and can then [...]
I wrote the other day about how bloggers help increase divisions among people by reinforcing whatever views they already have. And I’ve certainly picked on bloggers-as-journalists many times, because so many of them who think they are, aren’t.
But now it’s time to look at the other angle: Why bloggers are smacking around newspapers [...]
One year, 12 bucks. Great deal.
And yes, I’ll be blogging again very soon.
