Shining Star

Wytheville’s own Rosa Lee Jude was named the Shining Star Tourism Executive of the Year at the fifth annual Celebrate Tourism Summit at the Wytheville Meeting Center.

The summit, presented by Jude’s Visit Wytheville, the Virginia Tourism Corporation and Friends of Southwest Virginia, was held Tuesday.

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Wythe County

County seat of Wythe County & strategically located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia.

Close to Roanoke and Washington, D.C., both Wytheville, Virginia and Wythe County have much to offer. Much of the 460 square miles of Wythe County lies in a beautiful, broad valley bordered by the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountain ranges. We invite you to contact us! We can save you time and money in locating properties

$5.1 M

The availability of ready sites in Wythe County’s aptly named Progress Park will soon get a boost. On Thursday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced that $5.1 million would be awarded for a major site development project in Wythe County that will yield a new, graded property in the park to market.

See PROGRESS, Page 3 throughout the counties of Wythe, Bland, Grayson, Carroll, Pulaski, Giles and Smyth in Southwestern Virginia. We offer a fine selection of homes, farms and ranches, mountain property, recreational land and businesses for sale. United Country is the only national franchise system specializing in real estate throughout the small towns and cities of rural America.