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Where there’s smoke alarms … Community Works joins Red Cross in fire safety event
GATE CITY – Sixteen Gate City residences are safer after volunteers from Scott County Community Works, the American Red Cross and the Gate City Fire Department gave out free smoke alarms Saturday. The event, part of a fire safety education campaign, saw Community Works volunteers paired with Red Cross...
Where there’s smoke alarms … Community Works joins Red Cross in fire safety event
GATE CITY – Sixteen Gate City residences are safer after volunteers from Scott County Community Works, the American Red Cross and the Gate City Fire Department gave out free smoke alarms Saturday. The event, part of a fire safety education campaign, saw Community Works volunteers paired with Red Cross...
$317K grant improves Devil’s Bathtub trail access
SCOTT COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — The Scott County Economic Development Authority received a $317,000 grant to improve the access trail to the Devil’s Bathtub. The grant from the Virginia Department of Energy’s Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) helped cover the cost of improvements to the Devil’s Fork Loop trail that leads to the Devil’s […]
Sacred Ground: Trammell Cemetery
Some months back, the Sacred Ground series visited Chitwood Cemetery off Pine Grove Road in Winfield, the final resting place of Revolutionary War veteran James Chitwood. Chitwood, who was from a family that was strongly loyal to the British crown but was himself a Patriot who fought for independence, was just one of two Revolutionary War veterans who settled in what we now know as Winfield soon after the war. The other was Capt. Dennis Trammell. And, like Chitwood, he has a fascinating story to tell.
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