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Sports| Page 9| Cole first Burton player in All-Star softball game. Homespun| Page 10| Cooks & Books July 30 in St. Paul. FRIDAY the July 22, 2016 Vol. 105 • No. 59 16 Pages NORTON, VA 24273 USPS 120-120 $1.00 A Progressive Newspaper Serving Our Mountain Area Since 1911 PROGRESS Couple charged in death of infant son It is the policy of The Coalfield Both of the Pound each of child abuse and neglect. Progress not to publish information Each charge is punishable by up to that could identify the victim of a couple’s twin infant sons 10 years in prison. sex crime. died last year under The crimes are alleged to have taken place between April 26-May JEFF LESTER unusual circumstances. 1, 2015. NEWS EDITOR According to Wise County sher- child abuse and neglect in associa- iff’s investigators, the couple’s A Pound man was recently tion with the June 2015 death of the infant son Franklin died June 2 of charged in the August 2015 death of infant’s twin brother. last year. his infant son. Monday, the grand jury charged Lt. Tim Wagner said a medical This week, a Wise County grand Franklin Len Mullins, 44, and Viola examiner determined the cause of jury handed down indictments Marie Mullins, 43, of 8845 Maple charging the man and his wife with Lane Rd., Pound, with two counts INDICTMENTS, PAGE 3 Franklin Len Mullins Viola Marie Mullins Drone to pursue better reclamation ATV trail Town cuts ribbon next week Coeburn’s long wait to become part of the Spearhead Trails regional multi-use trail system is about to pay off. Town Manager Drew Mullins confirmed this week that officials will cut the rib- bon Friday, July 29, at 10 a.m. for the town’s connector trail to the Mountain View trail system in St. Paul. The event will begin at the downtown depot stage, fol- lowed by a short all-terrain vehicle ride to the trailhead in Banner on Little Tom Road. Officials will cut the ribbon there. This has been a three-year process working with the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority and VIRGINIA-ISRAEL ADVISORY BOARD PHOTO Virginia Department of Gov. Terry McAuliffe, left, congratulates Dr. Robi Stark of Sensilize for plans to use drones locally in Transportation, according to mine reclamation research. Mullins. In May, town council approved an ordinance gov- An Israeli company will use unmanned Gov. Terry McAuliffe congratulated Dr. Robi Stark, chief execu- aerial systems to conduct a pilot project tive officer of Sensilize, the Israeli compa- erning ATV use in town asso- aimed at revolutionizing parts of the mine will be at UVa-Wise ny whose remote sensing technologies will ciated with the trail system. reclamation process. be used. The ordinance defines The company’s leader will be in Wise this morning to discuss Drone-mounted sensors flying over affected vehicles as including County July 28 to discuss the effort. drone technology. more than 1,000 acres of mined Wise golf carts and similar vehi- In a press release yesterday, the County land will measure the health of cles, all-terrain and utility Virginia-Israel Advisory Board announced vegetation, according to the release. vehicles, dirt bikes and simi- that Virginia will be home to a “multi- reclaiming coal-mined land, expanding Sensilize plans to work with Wise lar vehicles. spectral remote sensing pilot project” the tax base and creating jobs. All such vehicles must be using an Israeli-made sensor mounted on a During a recent trade and marketing licensed and registered with drone to seek more economical ways of mission to Israel, Gov. Terry McAuliffe SENSILIZE, PAGE 5 the town. Operators must be licensed drivers whose license has not been suspended or revoked. Remote Area Medical begins An in-town use permit will cost $10, due by April 15 of The 17th annual Remote Area opticians will make prescription SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION HERE SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION For more information, each year. Medical of Virginia began this eyeglasses on site. Anyone operating an ATV morning at the Wise County fair- please contact the Those who have obtained a in town must wear a state- grounds and continues through lens prescription within the last approved motorcycle-style Sunday, July 24. Health Wagon at 12 months from a local eye care helmet. Vehicles cannot be Gov. Terry McAuliffe is provider will be able to fill those 276/328-8850. operated between sunset and scheduled to visit the health care prescriptions at RAM. sunrise. outreach event this morning at Glaucoma testing will also be 11 a.m. offered. Streets and roads where RAM is a non-profit, all vol- patients are not coming for eye DENTAL CARE: Cleanings, such vehicles are permitted unteer organization that pro- or dental needs, a fast track fillings and extractions will be include: The eastern begin- vides free dental, medical, and option is available to prevent available. Oral surgeons will ning of Front Street East and vision care to isolated and rural waiting in lengthy lines. perform biopsies and screen for westward to the beginning of communities. The purpose of However, a patient will be iden- mouth and throat cancer. Those Front Street West; then, west- RAM of Virginia is to provide tified and they are not allowed to who have ill-fitting dentures can ward to the Marty Shopping free care to the uninsured, change their minds to get eye or come for possible realignment. Center; and from the intersec- underinsured, unemployed, dental services once inside the HEARING EXAMS, AIDS: tion of Front Street East and working poor, and others who gate. Quillen Avenue, along Quillen EYE CARE: Complete eye cannot afford to pay. to the Fasmart Valero station. FAST TRACK MEDICAL: If examinations will be offered; RAM, PAGE 5 The trailhead • Drug, theft murder. is on INSIDE: indictments. • Businesses come to city. Little Tom • Dickenson man • Rock climbing opportunities. Road in Banner. charged with • Blood drive scheduled. PAGE 2 Friday, July 22, 2016 The Coalfield Progress Norton, Virginia 24273 Business at JULY 21, 1966 new location This Week in The Wise County Chamber of Commerce recently held a ribbon Local History cutting for the new location of In Home Care at 329 Church St. in the 50Years Ago... Payless shopping center in Wise. Left to right are Laura Mullins, town • Norton councilman of Wise; Rita Lee, chamber director; Archie V. Woods resigned Jeff Kilbourne, Natasha Proulex, with roughly one month left on his term. Woods Amy Jackson and Loice Ramey, In explained that he would be Home Care; Cindi Smoot, Wise coun- out of town for that entire cil member; Kathy Holbrook, In CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PHOTOS time period, and he believed Home Care; Danny French; and Jeff it was only fair for him to step Dotson, Wise council member. down. • A Wise County grand jury handed down several Business indictments. Alleged crimes locates here included shooting into an occupied vehicle with intent The Wise County/Norton Chamber of to kill, maim or disfigure, along with several charges of Commerce recently held a ribbon cut- breaking and entering. ting ceremony to celebrate the new • Big Stone Gap’s “Trail location of HairVolution at 746 Park of the Lonesome Pine” had Ave., Norton. Left to right are Henrietta been ranked number two Dotson, chamber president; David among outdoor dramas Robinson, Marcus Adkins, Sarah across the United States, according to The Washington Collier and Allie Palmer, HairVolution; Post. The local outdoor and Rick Colley, chamber executive drama was second only to vice president. “Common Ground,” staged in Williamsburg. Rock climbing opens at the Breaks KATIE DUNN at the Breaks began in climbing locations is also STAFF WRITER 2007-08 as part of a larger a benefit, said Schmidt. At effort to restore the birds other places climbers BREAKS — Kylie to their former eastern must drive to access dif- Schmidt developed a love U.S. ranges. ferent routes, but at the for climbing as a child. The falcon nests at Breaks, “you can pretty The 26-year-old on July 2 high elevations, normally much hike to all of the recalled how she was cliff ledges, where climbing spots here.” drawn to rocks, trees, and climbers might encounter Schmidt hopes climb- other vertical objects at a the species. ing will be the first phase young age. “It was an The climbing advisory in a “sustainable shift in inherent interest of panel discussed where economic development” mine,” she explained routes would be estab- that will boost other out- while preparing to scale lished and their proximity door adventure tourism an impressive rock cliff in to nesting sites, and links, like restaurants, Breaks Interstate Park. agreed to follow protocols campgrounds, and outfit- Rock climbing was that involve seasonal cliff ters. recently approved by the closures during the Bradley also hopes for Breaks Interstate Park breeding season. a sizable economic Commission as a sanc- Educational materials are impact. He and Schmidt tioned recreation activity. KATIE DUNN PHOTO also being developed to cited a 2015 economic The 4,600-acre park spans Kylie Schmidt, a Pikeville, Ky. native, climbs in Breaks Interstate better inform climbers impact study of rock portions of Virginia and Park earlier this month. It was Schmidt who helped gain climbers about how to identify the climbing in the Red River Kentucky, and Park falcon. Gorge conducted by Superintendent Austin approval to legally scale the park’s sandstone cliffs. Bradley said that the Eastern Kentucky Bradley said that it is the Breaks is home to five or University. The study first state park in either people requested that the tions with Schmidt and Rowe made clear that six sensitive animal and found that an estimated state to approve rock park open to climbing.