Floyd Mayor Will Griffin calls new town manager Lance Terpenny a “perfect fit” for Floyd. After spending more than three hours with Terpenny Thursday, talking about motorcycles, small town politics and several other things, I’m inclined to think Griffin is right. It’s clear that the 55-year-old Terpenny, who brings more than 20 years of municipal [...]
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At some point next month, I will head my Harley north on U.S. 11 to Front Royal and then take Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park to the beginning of The Blue Ridge Parkway for a multi-day trip down the 469-mile length to the Great Smokey Mountains. It’s a trip I’ve been meaning to take [...]
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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.
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Fries bills itself as the town at the start of the New River Trail but the Commonwealth of Virginia’s web site for Virginia State Parks considers 5.5 mile stretch that runs from Fries a “branch” of the main trail that it says runs 51.5 miles from Galax to Pulaski. Maybe that’s one of the reasons [...]
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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 dispute over property and belongings opened fire in a rural neighborhood in central Virginia, killing two people and wounding four others before police fatally shot [...]
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Any way you slice it, Friday nights in Floyd remain a magical time with street music and the sounds of music ranging from bluegrass at the Friday Night Jamorbree to classical guitar at Oddfellas and African folk songs at Dogtown Roadhouse. For many, it’s the street music that makes a trip to Floyd on Friday [...]
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Another day, another round of storms, another flood watch. Another day of watching helplessly as my driveway washes away and ends up somewhere in Franklin County. Another day when another tree will probably fall and/or more limbs will come cascading down. If I dare complain about the weather over a breakfast table at Blue Ridge [...]
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Floyd County has long enjoyed fast, reliable broadband Internet service thanks to Citizens Telephone Cooperative’s leadership in deploying high-speed data services in the region. Now Citizens has a grant to expand and improve broadband service in a seven-county region — primarily underserved areas of Wythe, Pulaski, Floyd, Giles, Montgomery, Roanoke and Botetourt counties. The $11.5 [...]
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Like an idiot, I believed the “meteorologists” who predicted Monday’s thunderstorms would strike in late afternoon so I rode my motorcycle to my mother’s assisted living facility in Radford to pick up some clothes to take to her at the rehab center where she is trying to recover from a broken hip. Dark, ominous clouds [...]
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Some people ride motorcycles for sport, others for recreation and still others as a hobby. I ride for two reasons: Transportation and therapy. Transportation is why my 2009 Super Glide — purchased 18 months ago — has more than 32,000 miles on the odometer. Therapy is why I can head out early in the morning [...]
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