Mark Sage | Community Newspapers of Southwest Virginia
Bland County lodged the Mount Rogers Health District’s first completed complaint on June 1, the day the Virginia Department of Health’s online portal for concerned residents to report non-compliance with mask and distancing mandates went live.
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