The first time Gerald Mays went to the Brookville-Timberlake Volunteer Fire Department’s Fireman’s Fair, he was just a child.

A Concord family will need extensive work on the front of their house before they can move back in after a pickup truck crashed into the front wall Wednesday afternoon.

Campbell County’s Board of Supervisors will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Haberer Building in Rustburg.

The three counties that border Smith Mountain Lake would like Campbell County to join the commission that lobbies for lake interests, from debris removal to weed control.

Del. Kathy Byron’s legislative workload got a little heavier this week. Byron, R-Campbell County, was named to nine study commissions appointed by Del. William Howell, speaker of the House of Delegates. No other Lynchburg-area legislator was appointed to more than four of the commissions, which work during the months when the General Assembly is not in session.

RUSTBURG — A Madison Heights man pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter and driving drunk in the July 2007 death of a Lynchburg-area woman.

RUSTBURG — Delores King didn’t just manage the Campbell County Social Services offices. She mopped floors, outlined budgets and handled everything to do with department computers.

The plan to close the Campbell County landfill on July 1 and switch to a regional trash operation stinks to one local trash collector. Ray Roakes will have an extra 20-mile round trip every time his company Rustburg Trash Removal hauls off garbage.

On Tuesday, two local cities and three counties will begin using the Lynchburg landfill, which will be renamed the Concord Turnpike Regional Landfill.

A Halifax County man was found dead early Sunday morning in the Staunton River four miles north of Brookneal.

Officials at Virginia’s Region 2000 partnership are keeping an eye on where high-speed Internet access is available.

A recently released state water quality report designates 45 Lynchburg area streams and lakes as impaired — most because they contain too much E. coli. The report adds more than 1,600 miles of streams and rivers throughout the state to the impaired list, but that’s mostly because more waterways — 16,191 miles, or 31 percent, of all state waters — were assessed.

RUSTBURG — A man accused of acting as “muscle” in the slaying of a Lynch Station man was denied bond for a second time Thursday.

Brad McDouall put a trashcan lid full of wet, soot-covered Beanie Babies on the trunk of his car to dry in the sun while he continued to dig through the wreckage of the house his family was preparing to call home.

RUSTBURG — A Campbell County man convicted in March of carrying a pistol onto Rustburg High School’s parking lot despite his insistence that the government has no power over him was ordered to be released Tuesday after spending seven months in jail.