While eating lunch at the Floyd Country Store recently, a couple who moved to the area six years ago stopped by my table to announce they were moving to Idaho next month. When I asked why, both said Floyd did not turn out to be the country mecca they hoped to find. Floyd, Carlie Jamison [...]
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Floyd County High School’s junior varsity football team wrapped up its home season with a match against Patrick County Friday night. The junior Buffaloes were leading 22-6 at halftime when I had to leave the game for another event. More photos and Roger Mannon’s full story in next week’s Floyd Press.
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For many years, visitors flocked to Floyd on Friday nights for the Jamboree and pretty much ignored the town for the other six days of the week. No more. This is not your daddy’s Floyd…or your granddaddy’s for that matter. Music will resonate through the town Thursday night with the free concert series at the [...]
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Floyd County High School’s varsity football team rebounded from a season-opening loss last week to Christiansburg by stomping Rural Retreat 48-20 Friday night for the home opener. Dorian Harris (above), aided by key blocking, shredded the RR defense with rushing touchdowns while the Buffalo defense stepped up (below) with key quarterback sacks an solid wall [...]
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New this year on Floyd’s ever-expanding music scene is the Thurday night series of concerts at Hotel Floyd. At a time when the cost of enjoying music is going up at some venues, the Hotel Floyd series if free to the public and features popular area bands with a mix of music. Franklin County bluegrass [...]
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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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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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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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After a brutal winter that left some Southwestern Virginia school systems closed for an entire month, administrators aren’t taking any chances. Students return to school in Floyd County this morning, joining their counterparts in other counties who started even earlier. The early start will give school systems plenty of “snow days” to bank is another [...]
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