by Laurence Hammack | Oct 9, 2017 | Politics/government
BUCHANAN — At the historic Buchanan Theater, a Main Street icon in this small town, recent showings have featured a gun-slinging battle of good versus evil in “The Dark Tower, ” high-speed automotive action in “The Fate of the Furious, ” and the World War II story of...
by Laurence Hammack | Dec 26, 2016 | Politics/government
WARM SPRINGS — Local politics is so heated in Bath County these days that the board of supervisors moved its Dec. 13 meeting to the county’s circuit courtroom to accommodate an overflow crowd, which watched the proceedings in quiet disapproval. Three of...
by Laurence Hammack | Feb 22, 2009 | Politics/government
One year after Councilman Alfred Dowe resigned amid controversy over his spending for meals and travel, the rest of the council members have cut back on their own spending. Here are the numbers, not counting Dowe’s $15,000-plus expense account: In 2007, the...
by Laurence Hammack | Nov 7, 2008 | Politics/government
On a day when Democrats had every reason to be energized, and in a county where they rarely lose an election, voters stayed away from the polls by the thousands. In Buchanan County, turnout was just 53 percent Tuesday — the lowest of any city or county in the...
by Laurence Hammack | Aug 24, 2008 | Politics/government
HAYSI — Deep in Appalachia, a mountaintop Ferris wheel circles as high as the surrounding ridges while daylight fades to dusk. The county fair is in full swing here, on one of the few stretches of flat land to be found in Dickenson County: a former strip mine....
by Laurence Hammack | Feb 25, 2008 | Politics/government
The city-issued MasterCard that was in — and often out of — Alfred Dowe’s wallet made it ever so easy for him to bill taxpayers nearly $15,000 for his meals and travel last year. Every month, his credit card statement went straight to city hall and...