Dangerous, lurking shadows of the night
As a motorcyclist, I’m always on the watch for critters on the road. Around here, deer pose the greatest threat to those on two wheels. More than a dozen riders have collided with deer in Southwestern Virginia so far this year. Two died. Five others suffered serious injuries. Deer, however, aren’t the only dangers lurking [...]
Say goodbye to Chevron and Texaco
Chevron and Texaco service stations in Southwestern Virginia began to disappear over the weekend as some locations closed and other changed to other brands of gas under the company’s decision to cease retail fuel operations in the Middle Atlantic, South and other parts of the country. I filled up at a Chevron station on U.S. [...]
Crime increasing in Floyd County
Armed robbers storm into a Willis convenience store. A 15-year-old Floyd County girl is lured via the Internet into a car and abducted to Pennsylvania by a predatory couple. A county woman flees an abusive husband in South Boston and comes home. She returns to retrieve her daughter and is gunned down by the husband [...]
Floyd wraps up a busy week
The Floyd Country Store closes out a 10 day celebration of its 100th anniversary today with the Sunday afternoon Oldtime Slow Jam, a weekly gathering of musicians who play and sing in a circle in front of the stage from 2 p.m. Guitarist and legendary luthier Wayne Henderson and country piano virtuoso Jeff Little appeared [...]
The graveyard of broken blog dreams
A local blogger threw in the towel this week. Jim Connor pulled the plug on his “On the Porch” site and pulled all content off the servers at WordPress.Com. I emailed Jim when the RSS feed from his blog stopped working on Muse’s homepage. No response. Fred First of Fragments from Floyd says Jim told [...]
Floyd is going to the dogs
DogTown Pizza, the folks who served up food from a stone hearth oven in the back of a pickup a year ago, goes big time this weekend with its grand opening of DogTown Roadhouse in the Winter Sun digs formerly occupied by Cafe del Sol. DogTown actually opened last weekend in time for the Town [...]
A heart-breaking setback
As late as Tuesday night, we looked forward to Wednesday as a banner day when we would move my 86-year-old and increasingly immobile mother from rehab into an assisted living facility as the next step in her recovery from a fall at home six weeks ago. Then the phone rang before dawn Wednesday. Instead of [...]
Traffic jams in a one stop-light town
One of the by-products of Floyd’s increasing popularity as a visitor destination is traffic — lots of traffic. On some days it can take three or more cycles to get through the county’s only stop light at Main and Locust Streets in Floyd. Parking is difficult to come by on Tuesdays when Angels in the [...]
Swinging with Sway Katz
[slide] Sway Katz, the dance band with a big band swing, rocked the Pine Tavern Pavilion Saturday night to a large crowd that kept the dance floor shaking throughout an evening. Even thunderstorms that ventured into the area couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm.
Scenes from a busy weekend
[slide] Busy weekend in Floyd. Kickoff of the Country Store’s 10oth anniversary celebration, the second annual Town Jubilee and Sway Katz at the Pine. Kept my camera busy. Here are a few shots.