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CO-CREATOR, BOOSTER OFWYTHEVILLE COLLEGE DIES CIVIC VOLUNTEER ROBERT JOHNSON WAS 84; ROBERT ELEY JOHNSON 1919 - 2003
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Robert Eley Johnson has been called a circuit rider for drumming
up support to create what is now Wytheville Community College.
Former college president William Snyder came up with that
description for Johnson's work in 1990, when the college conferred
its first honorary degrees in humane letters. Johnson headed a
steering committee that was successful in creating a two-year branch
of Virginia Tech in Wytheville, and helped argue for it in 1961
before the State Council of Higher Educat...
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; Gov. Mark Warner will be the keynote speaker when Wytheville Community College begins its year-long 40th anniversary celebration Thursday. College officials will also use the occasion for a formal announcement of a capital campaign. Wytheville Mayor Trent Crewe also will lead a ground-breaking
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Program to offer free ride on tuition: Some high school graduates will get help to attend Wytheville Community College.
Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
; ... expand their horizons once they've graduated. Copyright (c) 2006, The Roanoke Times, Va. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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WYTHE COUNTY DEPUTIES ARREST STABBING SUSPECT
Roanoke Times & World News
; A tip from a citizen led police to a stabbing suspect, the Wythe County Sheriff's Department said. Deputies and state police entered a camping trailer on Crockett's Cove Road in Wythe County about 1:30 a.m. Sunday to find Walter "Freddy" Richardson unresponsive. Richardson had narcotics in his
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Wythe County, Va., hospital and health care system consider 30-year lease plan.
Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
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PANEL SEEKS INPUT ON WYTHEVILLE, WYTHE COUNTY VISION CITIZENS COMMITTEE HAS ALREADY GAINED INPUT THROUGH COMMUNITY FORUMS
Roanoke Times & World News
; Residents of Wytheville and Wythe County will begin crafting a community vision statement at a meeting Thursday at Wytheville Community College. The meeting involves a committee composed of a cross-section of residents who have been assembling data on the area's future for nearly two years. But the
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AFTER A DECADE, POWER LINE OK'D FOR WYTHE COUNTY 38 HOMES, 280 PARCELS OF LAND ARE IN THE APPROVED 90-MILE, 1,000- FOOT-WIDE CORRIDOR
Roanoke Times & World News
; American Electric Power Co. got the final approval it needed Tuesday to build a 765,000-volt power line from Wyoming County, W.Va., to a substation at Jacksons Ferry in Wythe County after more than a decade of controversy over the project. The U.S. Forest Service issued an environmental-impact
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At the crossroads of commerce: At a time when many of its neighbors are struggling over shuttered plants and mass layoffs, Wythe County's success in attracting new business is striking.
Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
; ... services growth and all that, Hawthorne said. Copyright (c) 2007, The Roanoke Times, Va. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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Panel Seeks Input on Wytheville and Wythe County, Va., Plan.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; By Paul Dellinger, The Roanoke Times, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 22--WYTHEVILLE, Va.--Residents of Wytheville and Wythe County will begin ... 2003, The Roanoke Times, Va. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
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WYTHE COUNTY MAY RETHINK SUPPORT FOR POWER PLANT EXAMINER'S REPORT RAISES WATER QUALITY ISSUES
Roanoke Times & World News
; Wythe County may reconsider its support of a gas-fired power plant that would use water from an abandoned mine in Austinville. Duke Energy North America wants to build the plant on the New River in Wythe County, using water from a flooded abandoned zinc mine for cooling. The county board of
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SENATE CONFIRMS PIKE AS MARSHAL IN WESTERN VA. HE SERVED AS WYTHE COUNTY SHERIFF
Roanoke Times & World News
; The former sheriff of Wythe County has been officially approved for the job of U.S. marshal for the Western District of Virginia. The Senate unanimously confirmed Wayne Pike's nomination Thursday evening. President Bush nominated Pike in April after he was recommended by Sens. John Warner and
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