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 [...]

When Amy and I attended the inaugural Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis in 1994, a NASCAR official arrogantly predicted the race would “be bigger than the Indy 500 in the coming years.” An overflow crowd of more than 300,000 packed the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that year. A decade and a half later, empty seats outnumbered those [...]

Lance Terpenny, Floyd’s new Town Manager, took an $80,000 pay cut to move from Christiansburg — where the Town Council told him to resign after saying they had “lost confidence” in his ability to serve their needs — but he’s not about to go broke. New details of his severance package from Christiansburg shows he [...]

Lance Terpenny spent his first day on the job as Floyd’s new town manager Monday. The former Christiansburg administrator moves from managing the third largest incorporated town in Virginia to one of the smallest and takes an $80,000-a-year pay cut. When I drove into town Monday I did not see a “Wall Mart Coming” sign [...]

City Magazine, the free (ad supported) arts and entertainment mag that is circulated throughout the area, is out with its annual dining roundup and based on the inaccuracies in that list, the folks that claim to rate the area’s restaurants don’t get out much. At first passing, a found a half dozen eateries listed that [...]