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Lived and worked in those buildings voiced their outrage tuesday at the supervisors meeting. But the friends of the greenfield preston plantation say they have the answer, and it starts with a check for 40 thousand dollars just raised a day ago. Peggy crosson, friends of greenfield plantation ted at 9 00 in the morning, and by 6 00 p. M. , we had almost 33 thousand dollars in committed monies. If supervisors agree, the next step of the plan would put the buildings back where theyve stood for centuries, while also allowing for industrial development. 03 26 12 we think theres opportunities to re...

Weather. We want you to stay move through the region last night into this morning, but by the afternoon, outside of some drizzle, we did dry things out a bit. Another round of heavy rain will likely impact the region later tonight into wednesday, as a powerful storm system from the southwest impacts us. Tonight rain again forms, milder with lows around 40. Fog is again possible. Pleas e be careful driving. Wednesday rain likely, even some storms are possible, with the winds picking up, highs in the midto upper 50s. A flood watch is in effect until 700p on wednesday. 12 of rain will fall tonigh...

As you can see behind me, crews are still on kennon drive, as they have been all day, working to repair multiple power poles and multiple power lines. Were pretty lucky. Id say were lucky. Lucky because the storm couldve been much worse. Around 750 people in danville lost power as a result of yesterdays storm, but now only about 150 are still without power. Jerone mabe engineerin g technician if it had kept raining and the temperature had staid around freezing, 31 to 32 degrees, we wouldve had a lot more people out. The city says the biggest concentration of outages came this morning when arou...

Ice and rain, it was nice to see the sun return on tuesday. However, we will still be dealing with the ramifications of the last storm, as there numerous Power Outages due to downed trees and powerlines. Also, we will be monitoring the river levels over the next couple of days because of all the precipitation that fell. A weak clipper system will impact the region tonight bringing some light precipitation with it. We will start to see some light snow southern nrv and mountain empire during the mid evening hours. As the storm progresses east towards southside, the light snow showers could chang...

Booth says before crews get chopping, first he appraises the damage. Going to their homes it can vary from anywhere from damage. Going to their homes it can vary from anywhere from 15 to fortyfive minutes. It all depends on the damage. Once booth gets a quote. Which can run up to onethousand dollars, crews come out to to work. We had big branches fall and you just have to get out and get it into small pieces where you can manage it. And get it into piles where you can manage the piles. Booth says crews are dealing with scattered tree limbs and some even weighing on homes. Its a clean up proces...