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CAROLYN R. WILSON | SPECIAL TO THE BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. — Mary Beverly sipped a morning cup of coffee last week as she prepared to face a computer screen instead of her classroom of students at Abingdon High School. Send ideas for Hometown Stories to citydesk@bristolnews.com. Include a few lines about the person, a phone number and your name. Be sure to put "Hometown Stories" in the email subject line. The halls of the high school — like all of the other schools in Washington County — are once again empty as students tackle online learning at home an...

Sarah Wade | Bristol Herald Courier ABINGDON, Va. — On Monday morning, the Virginia National Guard launched a week of mass COVID-19 testing in Southwest Virginia’s Mount Rogers Health District, where the respiratory illness continues to spread with a wildfire-like ferocity. A huge train of cars and pickups inched through steady rain along the road leading to Abingdon High School’s lower parking lot, one of the testing sites, at around 9 a.m. Under a pair of blue tents, eight or so service members from Task Force Dogwood, the Virginia National Guard’s COVID-19 t...