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POUND – With a mostly new council and a fresh start, Pound officials will be searching for one item while organizing for a 2022-23 budget.

The Pound Town Council now has a full complement of members.

WISE — More court action is coming this week concerning last week’s appointments to the Pound Town Council.

WISE – One new appointee to Pound Town Council will not be taking office.

WISE – A bill to revoke Pound’s charter in late 2023 is heading to Governor Glenn Youngkin’s desk after state senate passage.

RICHMOND – Legislation to revoke Pound’s charter has made it to the Virginia Senate floor, with a second deadline extension added to the bill.

POUND — Pound got a lump of coal in its Christmas stocking from the Wise County Health Department over a Dec. 6 “reverse” parade. According to a Dec. 7 letter to Pound Town Manager Jane Bennett from the department’s environmental health manager, Brad Stallard, the town was issued a notice of violation of Gov. Ralph Northam’s emergency orders in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This Notice of Violation of Executive Order 67,” Stallard wrote, “is to info...