The honors awarded Dr. Frederick Douglas Reese Sr. are too numerous to count. Yet this man remains modest and retiring, never asking for praise or thanks. Of the most recent honor he has received, he says only, "I am very appreciative of the honor, which came from Alabama State University.
Water conservation The city of Winchester is replacing a sand filter at its Percy D. Miller Water Treatment Plant, a process that will take approximately two weeks to complete.
A former homecoming king at Tazewell High School described by his friends as a comic who could make people's ribs ache from laughter was killed in Iraq on Saturday.
WHEELING — Walter Reuther was true to the community in which he grew up, a labor historian said. David Javersak, dean of West Liberty State College’s School of Liberal Arts, said he rarely uses the term but called Reuther a “hero” of his era.
In a hard hitting defensive struggle, Northland Community College came up with a little more offense to knock off the Itasca Vikings 20-7 Thursday night on a beautiful night for football at Dixon-Barle Field in Coleraine.
In a small manufacturing-based city in Southside Virginia, Worth Harris Carter Jr. has seen the past and the present of community banking. Now, he's preparing to take it into the future.
John W. Ryan of Ashburn has been named chairman of the Northern Virginia Community College Board for 2006-2007. Ryan, who represents Loudoun County, is completing his second four-year term.
The Virginia Community College System recently approved a new diploma in construction technology offered by Wytheville Community College. The program is intended to prepare students to work in the carpentry, electrical or plumbing trades, but also to give a "more well-rounded education" than is offered in Wytheville's less-comprehensive, career-studies certificate programs, said David
