Page 18 - Patrick County News Today

Thursday morning I got a phone call from a lady who said she was with the Victim/Witness Program asking me if I could arrange to be in a Henry County courtroom in about 20 minutes.

A portrait of a Danville segregationist judge who banned public protests in the city and ordered arrests of civil-rights demonstrators during the 1960s has been removed

Residents of Patrick County continue to press the board of supervisors to protect property in the county from the installation of solar panels and power lines.

The fall fire season has ended and with recent rains to the region, burn bans are being rescinded. During this years fall fire season, which ran from Oct. 15 to Nov. 30, included 156 wildfires in Virginia that burned nearly 25,000 acres and damaged 13 structures. In Patrick County, the Tuggles Gap wildfire consumed 1,150 acres before it was completely contained.

A Bassett man is facing attempted murder and arson charges after an incident on Thursday, according to the Patrick County Sheriff’s Office.

A Bassett man is in the Patrick County Jail on charges of attempted murder and arson.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has reversed a ruling by the Virginia Court of Appeals and, as a result, will require a Patrick County man to reimburse the state Medicaid program over $22,000. Larry Dale Puckett, 61, of Pedigo Ridge Road in Claudville, was sentenced in 2021 to a 12-year active sentence for stabbing Justin Sinclair Hawks of The Hollow Road, multiple times in the chest and side in 2019.

TODAY’S WORD is exsiccate. Example: With no rainfall for months, the soil in the farmer’s field started to exsiccate, making it difficult for crops to grow.

Calendar items may be sent to accent@martinsvillebulletin.com or mailed to P.O. Box 3711, Martinsville, VA, 24115. Dates and times must be included.

• A Mount Airy man has been jailed under a $75,000 secured bond as a fugitive from justice from a neighboring state, according to city police reports.