New this year on Floyd’s ever-expanding music scene is the Thurday night series of concerts at Hotel Floyd. At a time when the cost of enjoying music is going up at some venues,...

September 2 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Virginia’s Department of Transportation (VDOT) is an all-but-missing entity in Floyd County since the department reorganized and shut down the Hillsville residency office earlier this year and transferred us to the Christiansburg residency....

September 1 2010 / 6 comments / Read More »

A Blue Ridge mountain sunset, shot from the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Roanoke....

August 30 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Fog greeted me early Sunday as I headed out on the Blue Ridge Parkway for an extended ride down into North Carolina for breakfast.  By lunch, I was off the Parkway and into...

August 29 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Saturday  dawned foggy and cool. If I had any illusions about using the day for a long, comforting, therapeutic motorcycle ride, those fantasies disappeared under the reality of the need to mow out...

August 28 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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Musings

A welcome addition to Floyd’s music scene »

A welcome addition to Floyd’s music scene

New this year on Floyd’s ever-expanding music scene is the Thurday night series of concerts at Hotel...

September 2 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

VDOT is AWOL »

VDOT is AWOL

Virginia’s Department of Transportation (VDOT) is an all-but-missing entity in Floyd County since the department reorganized and...

September 1 2010 / 6 comments / Read More »

Bankole Johnson is a corporate shill »

Bankole Johnson is a corporate shill

The short biography of a University of Virginia egghead who wrote a diatribe against rehab in general...

August 31 2010 / 15 comments / Read More »

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  1. rio semione: Kudos to Hotel Floyd for this music series. I have been a few times and it is a relaxed, pleasant venue...
  2. rio semione: I’ve been intending to speak to someone about the speed in which MOST drivers come down Rt.8 into...
  3. Yvonne: Blackberry typo in prior comment — meant to type “Topamax,” of course.
  4. Yvonne: I don’t have first-hand knowledge about TV commercials for pharmaceutical medications because I...
  5. Quincy: Part of the problem is the funding formulas. Floyd County has a lot of roads, and not a lot of people. Most...
  1. A welcome addition to Floyd’s music scene
  2. VDOT is AWOL
  3. Bankole Johnson is a corporate shill
  4. Blue Ridge sunset
  5. Views of the Blue Ridge
  6. Plowing the south 40
  7. Lance Terpenny is a good fit for Floyd
  8. The Blue Ridge Parkway at 75
  9. Home volleyball season begins
  10. A tale of two communities along the New River Trail

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A hell of a meth »

Ask cops what concerns them most when it comes to crime in Southwestern Virginia and they usually answer in two words: Crystal meth. Methamphetamine use and production is rising to epidemic levels throughout the area and that use leads to other crime as users turn to robbery and break-ins to finance their habits. Floyd County...

July 1 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »
A hell of a meth

A Floyd Friday night »

With more and more Springlike weather (while not forgetting the cold weather in the weekend’s forecast), the streets of Floyd are packed with music and listeners on Friday nights. The traditional “First Friday” observations at The Jacksonville Center, Winter Sun and Station on South Locust added to the crowd this past Friday night as the...

May 9 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »
A Floyd Friday night

Home volleyball season begins »

Floyd County High School kicked off its home volleyball season Tuesday night with the JV team beating Christiansburg while the varsity girls lost the first game. More photos in next week’s Floyd Press....

August 25 2010 / No comment / Read More »
Home volleyball season begins

Odds favor another term for Boucher »

Many Congressional incumbents around the country are in trouble. At the moment, veteran 9th District Congressman Rick Boucher does not appear to be one of them. A new poll shows Democrat Boucher leading Republican challenger Morgan Griffith by 13 points — 52-39 percent. An incumbent with more than 50 percent re-elect is not usually considered...

July 22 2010 / 15 comments / Read More »
Odds favor another term for Boucher

Liars, damn liars and Anthem Blue Cross »

Eleven months ago, my weight — which has grown steadily over the past few years — hit a knee-staggering 280 pounds. My doctor warned me that my blood sugar had reached the bottom threshold to signal a threat for diabetes. She recommended I deal with the problem immediately. I listened and went on a weight...

November 24 2009 / 10 comments / Read More »
Liars, damn liars and Anthem Blue Cross

FUBAR

The uncivil war in an angry society

The uncivil war in an angry society »

We live in an increasingly hate-filled society. Violence lurks just below the surface. This shocker from the Associated Press over the weekend in Louisa, Virginia: A man involved in a...

August 23 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »

NASCAR’s fading glory »

NASCAR’s fading glory

When Amy and I attended the inaugural Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis in 1994, a NASCAR official arrogantly predicted the race would “be...

August 10 2010 / 8 comments / Read More »

More questions about Lance Terpenny »

More questions about Lance Terpenny

Lance Terpenny, Floyd’s new Town Manager, took an $80,000 pay cut to move from Christiansburg — where the Town Council told him...

August 6 2010 / 22 comments / Read More »