A Sheva man saw the lead level in his home well water supply surge when Virginia Uranium Inc. performed exploratory drilling last year.  Since those holes were sealed, the lead content in Allen Gross’s well water has dropped below unsafe levels.

Late last month, the Board of Supervisors asked state Sen. Robert Hurt, R-Chatham, to seek an opinion from Virginia’s attorney general regarding the legality of a county ban on uranium mining

About 40 people got a wake-up call Wednesday night urging them to seize their right to self-government and make their representatives put a stop to corporate assaults on their communities

Groups presenting an anti-mining seminar at Averett University tonight will not circulate a petition as planned to ban uranium mining in Pittsylvania County and remove the Board of Supervisors if it doesn’t adopt a new county constitution outlawing the practice.

A local organization plans to roll out a petition Wednesday night demanding that the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors impose a ban on uranium mining

A Pittsylvania County resident who lives about a mile from Coles Hill says the amount of lead in his drinking water skyrocketed to unsafe levels after Virginia Uranium Inc. began exploratory drilling began about a year ago

The Pittsylvania County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will weigh the planned study on uranium mining at a meeting on March 12 in Chatham.

Pittsylvania County Administrator Dan Sleeper and Chatham-Blairs Supervisor Hank Davis each had a resolution on uranium mining on the table Tuesday night for the Board of Supervisors to choose.

Mayor Lillian Gillespie said the town is neither for nor against uranium mining, but it wants a study.

‘We don’t trust you,” Gregg Vickrey, president of the Chatham/Pittsylvania chapter of Southside Concerned Citizens, said to supervisors during their regular meeting Monday night