Today's News

By Congressman Robert Hurt

Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the great opportunity to continue to meet with and hear from Central and Southside Virginians in and across the District.

    I recently had the opportunity to intercept a working TV that was on its way to electronics recycling. It was a pre-digital broadcasting TV, so it needed a converter box, which the previous owner passed on to me. My old TV, a 1977 vintage set, died back in 2008, and I never replaced it. The price (free) for the “new” set was just what I was looking for.

A proposed development has turned out to be in perfect harmony with a Virginia Department of Transportation plan to fix a dangerous crossover on U. S. 460.

    A group of volunteers spent a wet, dreary Saturday earlier this month planting trees at Falling Creek Park.

    According to Todd Kready, the Virginia Department of Forestry’s forester for Bedford County, the trees are a mix of species, including black walnut, bald cypress and three types of oaks. The 75 trees were donated by Vaughn-Bassett, a furniture manufacturer in Galax. Henderson’s Furniture, a retailer located in Forest, donated the tree shelters.