First came the rain, then the fog. A heavy blanket fell on Floyd Monday afternoon as a prelude to evening showers as a final part of a deluge that dropped four inches or more on the region since Sunday.
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For weeks we’ve been saying how much we need rain. Well, we got rain…lots of rain. If forecasts are correct, up to six inches will drench the area by the time the rain ends tonight or early Tuesday. The rain started late Saturday night and has been steady since then. The U.S. Weather Service has [...]
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Organizers of the “first annual” Kanawha Valley Bike Rally probably hoped for a larger turnout than the moderate number of motorcyclists — most Harley “bikers” – who rode to the rodeo arena and equestrian center near Dugspur over the weekend. Confederate flags outnumbered vendors, a “bikini bike wash” sat mostly empty and only a handful [...]
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Varsity volleyballers go 0-10 in non district play but JV continues to win
September 24, 2010 1 Comment
Floyd County High School’s varsity volleyball team (above) ended non-district season play Thursday night with a 3-0 loss to James River and head into district games next week with a 0-10 record so far this season. Meanwhile, the JV team celebrated another win (below), overcoming a second game loss to James River to take the [...]
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Hanging over Harvestwood Road in Floyd County, VA. Shot with a Canon 7D DSLR with an 80-200 zoom f/2.8 lens. Exposure: 1/3o00th of a second at f:11. ISO: 1250. Manual settings.
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A September moon amid clouds along Virginia Rte. 8 in Montgomery County, VA. Shot with a Canon 5D, MKII DSLR, 8-200 zooms f/2.8 lens. Manual exposure: 1/2000th of a second at f:11. ISO: 1000.
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A Blue Ridge mountain sunset with a touch of blue. Shot along U.S. 221 at Bent Mountain in Roanoke County, VA. Canon 5D, MK II DSLR with 70-200 f/2.8 zoom lens. 1/2000th of a second at f:8. ISO: 800. Manual exposure. Slight enhancement in Adobe Photoshop.
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It took five years for Radford University to strip an avowed racist’s name from one of its arts and music buildings. The university’s board of visitors voted Friday to remove the name of John Powell, a white supremacist in Virginia, from Powell Hall on the Radford campus. In 2005, history professor Richard Straw and his [...]
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You’ve heard of the Twinkie defense? A few years ago, a California man charged with murder claimed he killed his girlfriend while under a sugar high from eating too many Twinkie. Now comes the caffeine defense. A Kentucky man goes to trial next week with the claim that he strangled his wife because of too [...]
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