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For 46 years now the Carroll County Gun Show and Flea Market has reigned as the big show on Labor Day in Southwestern Virginia, bringing crowds that estimates say easily top 100,000 to Hillsville, a ...
Power Direct, the telemarketing company behind Data Knight 365, the shadowy firm that announced last week it would spend more than $20 million to build a "world class data center" in Floyd's ...
Spent more than 22 hours in bed Friday night and Saturday morning after an eye surgeon finished restoring the vision of my right orb to 20/20 vision, completing the last of several operations over ...
The basketball Buffs took the lead early against the tough Dan River squad from Pittsylvania County and beat back attempts to spoili the match, but the Floyd County boys fought back and took a 10-pt ...
Enthusiastic fans cheer their Buffs. For much of the quarter-final match of state basketball play Tuesday night at Floyd County High School, the tough Virginia Hight Bearcats controlled the game with ...
Korey Turpin of the Buffaloes goes for a score. (All Photosby Doug Thompson) Taking the lead from the beginning at a home match against the Blacksburg Bruins, the varsity Buffaloes let my more tthab ...
No, it's not just wet. It's slick as hell. The Natiional Weather Service issued a new weather warnng this mornint for Floyd County. You think? What we’re thinking ...
This, of course, assumes the hating ever stopped. An annual Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey reveals massive racism that drives the White Chrisitan evangelical movement that also ...
Floyd County may lay claim to “The Man Who Moved a Mountain,” but moving mountains and rerouting rivers is business as usual in Grundy, the Buchanan County seat in deep Southwestern Virginia. And at a ...
Chantilly Farms Saturday became the center ring and sideshow of Cirque Du Floyd, featuring acrobats, fire shows, ImaginAerial and more for six hours on the site off Franklin Pike northeast of Floyd.
Most friends and readers know that I have been dealing with a long list of health problems over the last couple of years with new ones sprouting up just as I seem to get clear of the previous ones. It ...