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Judging by the coming impact of new laws the General Assembly approved this winter, 2013 could be characterized as the year of the car in Virginia.
Policymakers further toughened penalties for prohibited behaviors behind the wheel — such as texting and drunken driving — and voted to make consumers pay more to buy vehicles as part of a financing plan to raise new revenue for state roads. They also voted to place new conditions on the use of mopeds.

ROANOKE — The Buck and Byllesby dams, named after two major players in the United States’ widespread adoption of alternating current at the dawn of the Electric Age, continue to churn out electricity for Appalachian Power more than 100 years after their completion.
The two hydroelectric dams on the New River in Carroll County helped establish the utility now known as APCo in the region, according to a news release from the company, celebrating more than a century of operations.

Carroll’s Public Service Authority has worked for four years to get water to the Cliffview community, and county officials expect the bidding and construction process to take an additional two years.
But public water is on its way, PSA Chairman Tom Littrell and other authority members stressed at a special meeting held in the community on June 20.

HILLSVILLE — Four people in a 1977 Jeep that wrecked in the Fowlers Ferry section of Carroll County Sunday morning were listed as injured in the single-vehicle crash, according to a Virginia State Police report.
The incident occurred when the Jeep, driven Cody Moss, 18, of Elk Creek, was traveling too fast on the gravel road near the intersection of Virginia routes 635 and 739, according to the report by Trooper C.H. Campbell.
The vehicle went off the road to the right. Trying to correct, the driver sent the Jeep back across the road to the left.