To mark National Safe Boating Week, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources this week reminded all boaters to stay safe this summer and always wear a life jacket while on the water.
A new organization will take over running the Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival, as it returns to former venue of Crazy Horse Marina for this year's event.
“When I was that young, I had a friend much older than I was, and I’ll remember him forever,” Ian England said. “He was an amazing role model for me, so I wanted the kids to have someone like that that they could look up to.”
The Joyous Junque yard sale is set to return June 2 and 3 at Resurrection Catholic Church in Moneta. A wide variety of items are being cleaned, priced and tagged for sale in expectation of eager crowds looking for deals.
A Franklin County family’s libel lawsuit, which claimed ABC News defamed them by including a four-second video of their home in a story about politics and race, was dismissed Friday by a federal judge.
The school division closed schools Monday due to a cyberattack. Schools reopened Tuesday.
Smith Mountain Lake visitor dies after falling off dock at Smith Mountain Lake.
When Bernice Cobbs became Franklin County's superintendent of schools in 2020 her starting pay was $125,000. The new schools leader starting July 1 will make $156,000.
The Rocky Mount Town Council has adopted a $15.8 million operating budget for the 2024 fiscal year.
A proposed resort facility including motel and cabins on the shoreline of Smith Mountain Lake is moving forward following a decision by the Franklin County Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday.
A new app providing information on Smith Mountain Lake received a significant update thanks to the help of a local fishing club.
Booker T. Washington National Monument, established in 1956, preserves the birthplace of the enslaved child who after emancipation grew to become an influential Black educator who helped found the Tuskegee Institute.
The Smith Mountain Lake Marine Volunteer Fire Department trained by raising of a sunken boat at Bayside Marina in Moneta. The department’s dive team practiced the intricacies of raising the vessel to assure it will be able to call upon those skills when needed.
With its efforts to create the first no-wake zone at Smith Mountain Lake blocked by state authorities, a local commission now focuses on educating boaters to operate their watercraft with safety in mind.
Smith Mountain Lake once again saw the most boating incidents of any body of water in Virginia last year, according to the state Department of Wildlife Resources.
A Franklin County homicide case, one with an extensive profile but not much definition, gained deeper and more provocative shadings June 24 at a preliminary hearing for Michael Alexander Brown.
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Take Pride in Smith Mountain Lake, the lake’s annual cleanup initiative, continues this month with organized events scheduled for the next two Saturdays: May 13 and May 20 at various locations around the lake.
Three of the four incumbents on the Franklin County Board of Supervisors plan to seek reelection in November, one of those three with a challenger.
Solie Stenger has shown she's a force to reckoned with on waterskis. The 16 year old has proven her talents competing in slalom, trick and jump events and even earned a spot on Team USA in the Pan-American Waterski Championships in Santiago, Chile this past November.
TLAC’s Navigation Committee voted against making any changes to Smith Mountain Lake’s no-wake buoy criteria during a meeting Monday.
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