Norton, VA – Pro-Art is thrilled to announce the return of its children’s theater camp for Summer 2026. Camp Create! will center around a musical theater production of “Hadestown: Teen Edition” by Anaïs Mitchell, a production Newsday hailed as, “Achingly beautiful, thought-provoking, powerful and prophetic.” All youth ages 10 to 17 are encouraged to apply. There… Read More Pro-Art’s CAMP CREATE! Welcomes Students for Summer 2026
© Jerry F. Couch AUTHOR’S NOTE: THE FOLLOWING LETTER AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE SENT TO THE CLINCH VALLEY TIMES BY REMIRE SUTHERLAND, AND WERE FEATURED IN THE CVT’S NOVEMBER 20, 1975 EDITION. Dear Mrs. Gregory: I enjoy your feature “Remember the Good Old Days” very much. I thought perhaps some of your younger readers would get… Read More The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company – Dickenson County, VA
BY Dr. Karissa Niehoff ON February 18, 2026 | NFHS NEWS, NFHS VOICE SURVEYS IN THE PAST have indicated that the No. 1 reason high school students participate in sports is to have fun competing with their peers. Fast forward from those surveys of yesteryear to today, the question now is, are they really having… Read More Finding the Fun of High School Sports Through the Daily Grind
Wise, VA – Jan. 9, 2026 – The Pro-Art Association has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to launch Pro-Art Studio, a new initiative debuting later this year that will provide hands-on artmaking opportunities to the community at large. This marks Pro-Art’s first-ever NEA award and arrives as… Read More PRO-ART Receives National Endowment For The Arts Grant to Launch PRO-ART STUDIO
© Jerry F. Couch IN 1914, GERMANY INVADED BELGIUM. This invasion caused widespread suffering among the Belgian people. Many were starving. Americans were sympathetic and relief efforts were quickly organized. The newspaper clippings that follow are from the December 11, 1914 edition of The World News of Roanoke, Virginia. They provides details of how people… Read More The Compassion of St. Paul Virgnia’s Citizens in 1914