Month: October 2019

There was a period of time, prior to me being hired full time, when the Bulletin was down to one news reporter, a sports reporter and an editor. As a result, some meetings were missed. City Hall may have sent out the notice that they were having a closed door meeting, but they denied the…

Neighbors from across the street were visiting when the occupants of a house at 1027 Askin St. in Martinsville smelled smoke around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Martinsville Fire Department and EMS responded to a 911 call, but fire spread quickly through the roof and totally destroyed what was home to seven people. “There were no injuries,…

“Maybe Wednesday we’ll open, but they won’t have an ABC license until the 28th or 29th of October,” Martinsville City Council member Danny Turner said. Sports bar opens, but no beer. I didn’t get by to see how it went. In fact, I just ate at this restaurant for the first time about two weeks…

This story involved a number of sources. I interviewed several county officials and the AEP spokesman about a plan to upgrade 15 miles of power line in Henry County. County officials were mostly supportive of the idea, but there was an underlying concern of property owners not getting a fair price for right-of-ways and whether…

As mentioned, I don’t intend to post a link to every fire or wreck I cover. This one I’m including for two reasons… it was the first one I covered for the Bulletin and the photo was the story. They teach you to keep your finger off the zoom – which is wrong. Learn how…

This was an interesting meeting to cover because a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the school system had just been dismissed involving a student that was beaten by another student where the claim of “bullying” was made. The school board members and other participants in the meeting made no mention of the lawsuit – as if…

Three people were injured Monday afternoon in a head-on collision on Craddock Road near Ridgeway. The crash occurred about 2:30 p.m. when a Ford Mustang and a Toyota Tacoma truck ran into each other near Eggleston Falls Road. One of the victims was airlifted to a hospital outside of the area, but the severity of…

At the end of a long dirt road somewhere near the Henry County – Pittsylvania County line there is a dirt road called “Nowhere Road” that led to a small house that was the home to thirteen members of one family. The house burned down and although they escaped with their lives, they lost everything…

Henry County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a shooting late Thursday afternoon in Basestt. At approximately 5:45 p.m. the Henry County 9-1-1 Communications Center received a call of a gunshot victim at 683 Murry Hill Lane. The dispatcher indicated the victim had been shot in the head. “There is an incident at Murry Hill resulting in…

I don’t intend to post every wreck or fire I cover. I cover far more than are necessary, but you can never be sure if it’s newsworthy unless you go. Some argue that no wreck is newsworthy and anytime one is filed and the story is pushed to social media, the argument inevitably begins again…