Thanks to online news sites and the proliferation of “hyperlocal” news sites, those of us who have lived in multiple places throughout out lives can keep up with what’s happening in our old hometowns. My daily Internet cruises includes visits to web sites that provide news and information about Tampa, Florida (the city of my [...]
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Drivers beware: There’s a pothole out there just waiting for the chance to destroy a tire, break or suspension or — at the very least — knock your front end out of line. The winter of extremes left us with a plethora of potholes: Some large enough to qualify for statehood or their own zip [...]
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Only the Irish would devote a hard-drinking holiday to a non-existent saint. Yep, St. Patrick ain’t a saint. Never was, never will be. But the Irish don’t care. The celebration of a false saint is nothing more than an excuse to drink (as if the Irish need an excuse to get tanked). For the record, [...]
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Fought a long, protracted battle with technology over the weekend, one that so sapped my energy that I had little time for little things like updating Blue Ridge Muse. My political news web site, Capitol Hill Blue, which has been online since 1994, went on the fritz with database and server resource problems, causing the [...]
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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 end and sewing it to the other. My farmer stepfather said that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t get his [...]
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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 a little while before fog set in. The afternoon forecast calls for a chance of thunderstorms. Thunderstorms? Yep. That’s a sure sign [...]
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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 Anga Miller confirmed today that Dogtown Pizza will take over the space that has housed the popular Floyd Coffee shop for [...]
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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 when one out of every 18 used food stamps. County social services director Carl Ayers says applications for food stamps and [...]
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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 other parts of the county — all dead from lack of food in this winter of extremes. Experts call such deaths [...]
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Friends drove over from Wythe County Tuesday for dinner…or at least in search of dinner. They hoped to eat at Mickey G’s but Tuesday is the one day of the week that the restaurant is closed. So they headed for Pine Tavern. No dice. PT is open Thursday-Sunday. Oddfellas Cantina? Nope. Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays [...]
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