by ROD [email protected] CLINTWOOD, Va. — Public safety, recreation and long-term planning took center stage Tuesday evening as the Dickenson County Board of Supervisors approved more than a dozen actions ranging from new rescue squad equipment and library improvements to the creation of two new advisory committees designed to shape the county’s future. Meeting on July 28, supervisors unanimously approved several grant applications totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in emergency equipment, authorized major capital improvements, established a county Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee and appointed members to a newly formed Energy Opportunity Committee. The nearly four-hour meeting reflected what county […]

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by SONALI KOLHATKAROtherWords The recent, record-breaking outbreak of Cyclospora infections linked to lettuce consumption has left Americans wondering what food is safe to eat. What brands of lettuce are safe and which aren’t are important questions. But even more important might be why such outbreaks happen in the first place — and how our government has made them increasingly likely. Nobody wants explosive diarrhea — and yet the way our federal government has left us unprotected is enough to make one sick. The chief culprit in the cyclosporiasis debacle is our centralized, monopoly-based food system. The outbreak has been linked to Taylor Fresh Foods, which […]

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ABINGDON, Va. — A Letcher County woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to distribute meth in southwestern Virginia. Britia Noel Johnson, 40, of McRoberts, pleaded guilty back in March to conspiracy to possess and distribute more than 500 grams of meth. Prosecutors say she would sell one- and two-pound quantities of meth for others to distribute in southwestern Virginia and that she introduced another person to a source for even larger quantities of drugs. Complicating matters for Johnson was an arrest for meth trafficking in Pike County in April, after she […]

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