News on the future of catawba hospital. Jean, the new budget proposals confirm what we heard last week, that keep the Mental Health facility open, at least for now. Proposals strip the funding that governor mcauliffe had proposed, to begin the process of closing the hospital in roanoke county. Lawmakers did call for a study of Psychiatric Services for geriatric patients, to be completed year. Roanoke county supervisor Martha Hooker says she is pleased catawba hospital will remain open for now, but doesnt view it as a permanent victory. Martha hooker r catawba supervisor i think that Mental Health care is changing. And were going to have to adapt to that, but this does give us a reprieve and we can gather our resources together and study, and most of all just take care of our Mental Health patients. Thats what we need. Passenger rail is another issue that received attention in the two budget proposals. Both plans include language designed to protect funding for the extension of Passenge
As an investigation continues, students at Hargrave Military Academy are back to their normal schedule. After an threatening message was recieved over social media last week with possible ties to isis, the campus shut down for the weekend. Law enforcement spent the weekend patroling the area and students were allowed to go home. School leaders say to normal and there are no updates on the investigation. Pittsylvania county Sheriffs Officers say they are aggressively following up on many different leads. The man accused of abducting and killing teenager Nicole Lovell now has a new attorney. David eisenhauer hired Tony Anderson from roanoke to represent him in court. The Montgomery County juvenile and domestric Relations Court confirmed the change yesterday morning. Eisenhauer was first appointed christiansburg attorney chris tuck by the court. Natalie keepers is also charged in lovells death. Both eisenhauer and keepers are in the western virginia regional jail. The Supreme Court of vir
Through social media. Why werent we updated sooner. Why did they wait until the next day . Parent Cliff Jennings says like many, he thinks more should have been done. Thank goodness it wasnt a threat, but had it been and something happen the next day and they didnt a alert parents, it couldve been a bad situation. School leaders admitted that more shouldve been done to alert parents. We should have sent you a message. Social media can be good, but in these situations, its really causing this the school. School board mccracken says the students safety is the boards top priority, i want them to be able to feel their kids are safe. Theyre secure, they can get refocused and this is a great need to have confidence in the our kids back on track off of social media and focus on upcoming testing. Either way, parents said they want re assurance that the most is being done to protect their children if another confidence that if it happens again, were going to be involved sooner. They will look i
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