An energy company headquartered in Virginia is spending more than $50,000 on a social media campaign to raise awareness about the work of volunteer firefighters and the sacrifices they make. Wednesday company representatives came to Marion to celebrate Marion Fire-EMS and award them a grant …

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Despite strong opposition from citizens during a December public hearing on a proposed loitering ordinance, the Marion Town Council will take another look at the measure brought up in response to the community’s growing population of unhoused individuals.

The park and recreation area long envisioned for Marion’s Callan Drive area possesses the potential to improve the quality of life of not just the town and county but the region. Scott Carson, a landscape architect and project team leader, made that assertion before the Marion Town Council M…

Area law enforcement credited a Chilhowie business with helping solve an industry theft. On Aug. 17, the Washington County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation into the theft of industrial wire and tools from Stuart Rush Company in Abingdon. According to a WCSO news release, the stolen…

A sitting member of the Saltville Town Council, who first served the town as a department head, died last weekend.