Today's News

The other day, I was reading previews for the upcoming ACC football season.

The head coach of Duke’s gridiron bunch was quoted as having a team goal of earning a berth to a bowl game this year.

    Georgia Pacific’s Big Island plant has installed a piece of equipment that both helps the environment and the plant’s bottom line.

    It’s called a recovery boiler and it allows the plant to recycle chemicals needed to turn wood chips into fiber. It also lets them use waste material as fuel.

When Hope Cupit’s daughter, Bendera, had her 13th birthday, she had something in mind other than presents.

    The Forest teen turned her birthday party into a fundraising event for a little girl named Hannah Johnson. Johnson, a student at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, is fighting leukemia. The type of leukemia she has responds well to treatment, but it’s expensive. Her  family  has insurance, but their out-of-pocket expenses are cheap.

he county’s students are back in school and an event last week reminds us of how important it is to take extra care on the roads.

    Less than a week into the school year an elementary student was hit crossing the road to get on a bus. On Thursday morning a 17-year-old driver, traveling in the opposite direction of the bus on Route 757 in Goodview, struck the 9-year-old student. There’s too much at stake for us not to take the extra precautions that are needed.