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Business owners and area citizens have been working hard the past month to get the area around the new Blue Ridge HOST visitors center ready for a soft opening Sept. 3. New visitors center focal point of Fancy Gap Park
Fancy Gap has always been known as a tight-knit place, but locals of the Blue Ridge Parkway community have outdone themselves with the construction of a new visitors center. Business owners and ar...
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The possibility of Carroll County’s school buses running in biofuel is being considered by school officials. Schools see possible future with biofuels
Canola could one day help drive Carroll County’s economy while fueling the buses that drive its students to school. That’s the message from Bassett-based Red Birch Energy’s Dean Price, who met wit...
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Sheriff Warren Manning Manning to retire as Sheriff at end of term
After 31 years in law enforcement, Carroll County Sheriff Warren Manning plans to retire when his term runs out at the end of 2011. Manning, who’s served as Carroll’s sheriff since the first of hi...
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Teri Robinson (left), area sales rep for the Virginia Lottery, presents a $500 check to Sharon Vaughn (right) of Cockerham Tire and Auto Parts #2 of Galax on Thursday for selling a winning ticket to Debbie Harris (center). Harris won a new Dodge Challenger (background) in the Muscle Car Money game. Harris wins new Dodge Challenger in Virginia Lottery
Galax’s Debbie Harris went from zero to 160 in a mere matter of seconds August 1. At least, that’s what the speedometer registers in the 2010 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi she won that day in the Musc...
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Members of the Hillsville Volunteer Fire Department work to clean up the scene at Guynn Hardware after a car crashed through its window Tuesday. Hillsville woman arrested after crashing into area business
A Hillsville woman has been arrested for driving under the influence of drugs after smashing her Ford Mustang into Guynn Hardware on Aug. 24. Ruth Ann Smith, 49, was driving a 1993 Ford Mustang at...
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Five-year-old Terry White talks to Hillsville attorney Raleigh Cooley on Aug. 13. Cooley bought a cup of lemonade that day from White, who was raising money for childhood cancer. Five-year-old raises money for childhood cancer
As soon as five-year-old Terry White heard about Alex’s Lemonade Stand, he knew it was his best chance to help fight childhood cancer. White, the grandson of Hillsville’s Carl and Alley Staples, s...
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Carter Home Foundation celebrates renovation
by Allen Worrell, News Writer
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While there is still much work left to be done, Aug. 17 was a day of celebration for the Hale-Wilkinson-Carter Home Foundation. With Congressman Rick Boucher and state senator Roscoe Reynolds on h...
Carroll fixes ‘broken promises’ with Honeycutt Dam water project
by Allen Worrell, News Writer
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Carroll County officials and Woodlawn citizens celebrated the “fix of broken promises” Monday with the groundbreaking of the Honeycutt Dam Road water project. Citizens along Honeycutt Dam Road, F...
Five years of dreams celebrated at Crossroads
by Thomas Lester, Editor
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On June 27, 2005, the Twin Counties took the first step toward rebounding from numerous furniture and textile layoffs. That was the day the Crossroads Institute opened its doors at the old Lowe’s ...
First Day of School
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Elliott Bowman (left), Jason Martin (background), Kamryn Quesinberry and Nicholas Kruise (right) get ready for the first day of their Kindergarten class Monday morning at Gladesboro Elementary School.
Community garden flourishes in year two
by Thomas Lester, Editor
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Last year, the congregation at the First Baptist Church of Hillsville saw the need for a community garden, as the difficult economic times made it difficult for people to keep food on the table. T...
Bobbitt charged with malicious wounding of infant
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A 22-year-old Hillsville man has been charged with the malicious wounding of a 24-day-old infant. William Ray Bobbitt of Cox Street has been charged with felony child neglect and malicious woundin...
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