Jared Quigg

MARTINSVILLE — Suzanne Mittenthal arrives at Fables & Fairytales in style, donning a bright red, flowery shirt from Fiji and walking with the help of two long hiking sticks in lieu of a cane. “You stop there on the way to Australia,” she explains about the shirt. “I’m not too long for this world,” she jokes. The sticks, though, are fitting for the 84-year-old, who has spent much of her life building and hiking trails across the globe.

“I didn’t know I had an opponent!” said Melissa Greene on Monday, then asking if she could hear Hall’s name again. Until July, Greene was uncontested for the Morgan County Council District 2 race following her victory in the May primary. The incumbent Republican was running for the seat unopposed until the Morgan County Democrats caucused in Hall on July 1.

MARTINSVILLE — Metropolitan School District of Martinsville (MSD) superintendent Eric Bowlen denounced “keyboard warriors” critical of the school district on social media in extended remarks during last Thursday’s meeting of the MSD school board. Bowlen’s comments follow widespread social media criticism of the board’s decision to pursue authorization to issue up to $60 million in […]