Dean-Paul Stephens

4 days ago | cardinalnews.org | Dean-Paul Stephens

Martinsville supervisors will talk water infrastructure at their Tuesday meeting, 6 p.m., at the New College Institute’s Gardner Board Room. Supervisors will learn more about the city’s water-related assets via a presentation by Dewberry Engineers, the firm hired to gauge the city’s infrastructure.

4 days ago | cardinalnews.org | Dean-Paul Stephens

Henry County supervisors will tackle school-related maintenance at their upcoming meeting following the school board’s request to transfer more than $1 million toward the maintenance and upkeep of several schools. The meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday at the Administration Building. If supervisors approve the two requests, totaling $1.2 million and $150,000, it would earmark $1.35 million for the proposed project.

4 days ago | cardinalnews.org | Dean-Paul Stephens

A handful of Martinsville restaurants received a few citations from Virginia Department of Health inspectors in May. May’s inspection list is available online. The previous month’s inspections are usually published around the start of each month.   Last month, Martinsville inspectors visited five full-service restaurants: Asador El Vergel, A Touch of Soul, Skip’s Restaurant, Wild Magnolia and Rania’s Italian Restaurant.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dean-Paul Stephens

The men and women who maintain Henry County’s archives have spent the last several years fighting back against the universal enemy of recordkeeping both public and private: time. From damp basements to dust-ridden offices with minimal climate control, important documents are relegated to less-than-optimal spaces for storage and become susceptible to a litany of dangers. In Henry County, a pair of rooms in the clerk’s suite of offices hide a trove of county history that is in danger of crumbling.

2 weeks ago | cardinalnews.org | Dean-Paul Stephens

Martinsville has to play catch-up if it wants to reach employee pay parity with other Virginia communities. This is according to researchers at the Berkeley Group, whom city officials commissioned at the start of the year to conduct a study comparing Martinsville’s pay structure to localities including Danville, Roanoke, Lynchburg and Radford. The monthslong study concluded that Martinsville should take steps, sometime within the next two years, to reach for market competitiveness.