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 the [...]

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 other public [...]

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 “winterkill,” an [...]

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 and Wednesdays.
Cafe del [...]

Virgil Goode and George Allen may be distant, bitter memories in the minds of most progressive Virginians but Ken Cuccinelli, the Commonwealth’s homophobic attorney general, stepped up late last week to remind us that cretins still exist in our government.
Cucinelli sent out a letter to state colleges and universities telling them to ignore discrimination against [...]