Consider borrowing 40Million Dollars to build a middle school and gymnasium for students in the northwestern part of the county. Wdbj7s tim saunders is live in bedford with a preview of tonights meeting. Jean, School Leaders have been talking about this project for a long time and tonight theyre hoping they need to move forward. Supervisors will consider a resolution on construction of a school and a competition gym for 40million of that amount would be borrowed. The board cast a similar vote last june, limiting the project to 38million. Since then three new members have been elected. Some members of the school board have said the project cant be done for 38million and tonight theyll get support from parents like john messier, who plans to speak at the meeting in favor of the larger amount. John messier parent we need to let the five supervisors who are in favor of the project at 100 of the funding know that we support them and appreciate that, and the other two supervisors we need to
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
Hirsbrunner. Rain this morning followed by heavier rain wednesday. Flooding concerns increase by midweek. As an investigation continues, students at Hargrave Military Academy are back to their normal schedule. 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 schedules are back 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 lovell
I mean, telling her is all you can do. You cant physically stop her from talking to them. Reporter according to a news release from the dr. Phil show just before christmas lovells father david found out that lovell was chatting online with older men and grounded her. He also took away her cell phonehe also took away her cell phone, though she did end up getting it back. Noreen. Noreen all right, we will continue to stay on top of this story. Thank you, annie. Seems to be a struggle seating a jury in the ashley white case in pulaski county. Jury selection is going on right now after starting a process yesterday morning. The 31yearold is charged with abuse and neglect in her 5yearold son noah thomass death last march. It has been an arduous back and forth between prosecutors and Defense Council all day long as they went through jury selection and seem to be brewing a close. At issue is the defenses allegation that it is impossible whites public defenderwhites public defender has been abl