Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Nora, Virginia is a small town in Dickenson County, Virginia, several miles south of Clinchco. Nora hosts Ervinton High School. Ervinton is most famous for athlete Trazell Silvers who played for the Harlem Globetrotters and overseas in Europe.