Floyd’s new Artisan’s Market opened in Floyd Friday afternoon and evening in the new Community Market structure across from the Country Store and next to the Station on South Locust. The Artisan Market will be a regular Friday feature along with a Farmer’s Market on Saturday. Sustain Floyd will be the sponsoring agency for both [...]
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From the time my mother’s housekeeper found her unconscious on the floor of her home, a team of medical professionals moved quickly to save her life. The Floyd County Rescue Squad responded swiftly and stabilized her. They were concerned about an erratic heartbeat and sky-high blood pressure and got her to the Carilion New River [...]
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I got a first-hand look this week at how often drivers ignore the lights and sirens of an emergency vehicle when I followed a Floyd County Rescue Squad ambulance on Floyd and Montgomery County roads as they rushed my mother to the hospital after she fell at her home. With lights flashing and siren wailing, [...]
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A man yapping away on his cell phone drifted into my lane on Rte. 419 in Roanoke County Tuesday afternoon, forcing me to swerve my motorcycle close to the median. I honked the horn and he looked at me with a deadpan stare: No remorse, no regret, not even surprise. Drivers who talk and text [...]
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Virginia Tech recently set up a special web site to help students deal with violence on campus. Tech’s “Threat Assessment Team” is understandable for the campus where the greatest mass murder in U.S. history is still seared into local, state and national memories but the Blacksburg campus is not the only school where violence is [...]
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The rabid right wing of the Republican party saw Bob McDonnell’s election as a road to the past, restoring the shameful and restrictive policies of the Old South to the Old Dominion. Now they’re not so sure. “He clearly cannot be trusted,” Joe Glover, a Republican activist who lives near Lynchburg and heads the Family [...]
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Virginia’s latest national embarassment — attorney general Ken Cuccinelli — is at it again. Now he wants to cover up a bare breast on the Virginia State seal. Cuccinelli recently distributed new lapel pins to his staff with the breast-baring tunic worn by Roman goddess Virtus replaced with an armored breastplate that covers her charms. [...]
Continue reading …Friday was one of those days when Floyd County High School had so many sporting events going on at once that it took help from principal Barry Hollandsworth and his Gator to get around to all of them. More photos of the games in the next edition of The Floyd Press.
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