My paternal grandmother dismissed Daylight Savings Time as a stupid idea, saying the fantasy of making the day longer was “like tying to make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off one...

March 15 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

OK. I’ve got Spring Fever. Got it big time. Temperatures in the high 50s sent the snow packing and the morning sun cut through the trees of the back yard this morning for...

March 12 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Cafe del Sol will not reopen. Frank and Sally Walker have put the equipment up for sale and will be moving out of the space in the Winter Sun building this weekend. Sun owner...

March 11 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »

As my story in today’s Floyd Press points out, one out of every eight households in Floyd County currently need food stamps to feed their families. That’s a dramatic increase from eight years ago...

March 11 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Three dead raccoons at the bottom of our driveway in this winter of extremes. All appeared emaciated and probably starved to death. A number of dead deer and other animals have been found in...

March 10 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »
Musings

Spring Fever »

Spring Fever OK. I’ve got Spring Fever. Got it big time. Temperatures in the high 50s sent the snow packing and the morning sun cut through the trees of the...

March 12 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »
News

Daylight Savings Crime »

Daylight Savings Crime

My paternal grandmother dismissed Daylight Savings Time as a stupid idea, saying the fantasy of making the...

March 15 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Goodbye Cafe del Sol, hello Dogtown Pizza »

Goodbye Cafe del Sol, hello Dogtown Pizza

Cafe del Sol will not reopen. Frank and Sally Walker have put the equipment up for sale...

March 11 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »

One Floyd family in eight on food stamps »

One Floyd family in eight on food stamps

As my story in today’s Floyd Press points out, one out of every eight households in Floyd...

March 11 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Winterkill »

Winterkill

Three dead raccoons at the bottom of our driveway in this winter of extremes. All appeared emaciated...

March 10 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

In search of…a place to eat »

In search of…a place to eat

Friends drove over from Wythe County Tuesday for dinner…or at least in search of dinner. They hoped to...

March 9 2010 / 12 comments / Read More »

Most Recent

  1. Ron Dees: Oh…and one other thing. Calling Mickey’s the best restaurant in a town with a population of 429...
  2. Ron Dees: I certainly hope all you folks are right. And I hope you remember in January and February after...
  3. john mish: I have worked with Michael Gucciardo at the Pine Tavern, I have been involved in the “growing” of floyd...
  4. Jeni Partnerschaft: True it is dificult to get used to new time at leat for a week since the change. I read other...
  5. Will Norton: I think Mickey G’s will do fine. He isn’t leasing a huge space, his restaurant is almost...
  1. Daylight Savings Crime
  2. Spring Fever
  3. Goodbye Cafe del Sol, hello Dogtown Pizza
  4. One Floyd family in eight on food stamps
  5. Winterkill
  6. In search of…a place to eat
  7. Another national embarrassment for Virginia
  8. No trip to Richmond this year
  9. Cafe del Sold?
  10. A slow path to raising speed limits

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A national honor and playing with the master »

Two of Mike Mitchell’s music students got the chance to play on stage with the legendary Wayne Henderson Wednesday as the Floyd County Store and Virginia’s Crooked Road took to the national stage for special recognition by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Hannah and Laurel Brooke joined Henderson on stage at the Country Store at...

February 4 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »
A national honor and playing with the master

Bad news for Floyd coffee lovers »

Floyd’s popular coffee shop, Cafe del Sol, closes for the entire month of February, starting Monday. A sign on the door of the establishment in the Winter Sun building on South Locust Street announces the closing, leaving caffeine-addicted Floyd Countians one less place to feed their habit or warm up on cold February mornings. The closing...

January 28 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »
Bad news for Floyd coffee lovers

Floyd boys advance in district tourney »

Floyd County High School’s boys varsity basketball team notched a 54-47 win over Glenvar Tuesday night at the FCHS high school gym in Three Rivers District Tournament play. The girls face Auburn tonight in a tournament semi-final game at Christiansburg High School (6 p.m.) ...

February 17 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »
Floyd boys advance in district tourney

A well-deserved butt kicking »

Hell froze over in Massachusetts Tuesday. Voters sent a Republican to Washington to represent the most liberal state in the union in the United States Senate. Defeated Democrats immediately launched their typical finger-pointing game — blaming the loss of seat held for so long by Sen. Ted Kennedy on everyone and everything except themselves. Most of the fingers...

January 20 2010 / 25 comments / Read More »
A well-deserved butt kicking

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 loss...

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

FUBAR

The AEP rate suspension scam

The AEP rate suspension scam »

If you buy into the propaganda surrounding the new law suspending Appalachian Election Power’s (AEP) latest rate increase then your momma failed to drown the dumb ones. The bill, signed into...

February 25 2010 / 6 comments / Read More »

Packing heat in bars »

Packing heat in bars

The National Rifle Association, along with the Republicans (and some Democrats) they own in the General Assembly, wants Virginians with a concealed-carry...

February 24 2010 / 28 comments / Read More »

Power outages hit Floyd County »

Power outages hit Floyd County

UPDATE: AEP reported power restored to most county homes by mid-afternoon. More than 600 customers of Appalachian Power Company lost power in Floyd...

February 16 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »