Government

Due to new developments, the Virginia-Carolina Water Authority directed its engineer to look at ways to provide fluoridated water to Independence and Grayson County and unfluoridated to Sparta and Alleghany County.
Board chairman Bryan Edwards, who is also Sparta’s town manager, said Sparta Town Council had voted not to purchase fluoridated water from the Authority.
The Alleghany County Board of Commissioners also voted last month not to buy fluoridated water.

Nearly 300 Grayson County taxpayers braved torrential downpours and frigid temperatures to protest the county’s 2010 tax increase during a citizens’ meeting Nov. 30.

The Grayson County School Board will meet 6 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Independence Middle School library.
This is a change from the board’s traditional meeting location at the Grayson County Courthouse.
 

We continue to live in a very dangerous world.
Radicals, terrorism growing in numbers around the world and the Middle East almost to the point of boiling over to a major conflict to an outright war.
From wars past to the present, American soldiers continue to lose their lives in countries where their enemies hide in the shadows, caves and behind women and children.
Then you look at the drug war that is costing many people their lives.
Countries like Afghanistan, Mexico and Colombia continue to ship their poison to our streets, schools and workplaces.