Danbury News

Relentless rain drenched much of the Atlantic seaboard yesterday, pelting communities from North Carolina northward with gusty winds and heavy rains and inundating streets, stranding drivers and causing two deaths in North Carolina and three deaths in Virginia.

Relief may be on the way for people in Stokes County who are on the wrong end of the digital divide.

Many paddlers would agree that the prettiest sections of the 200-mile-long Dan River are in Stokes County.

Dove season opened in temperate weather for a change last weekend and I'm waiting for reports as to how well local hunters did.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The 2009 Living Storybook will hold auditions from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Stokes Community Services Auditorium, 700 N. Main St., Danbury.

A few things have changed in the 35 years since some arts-minded folks in Stokes County decided to organize a festival along the banks of the Dan River.

The Best of Lewisville, Sept. 19 in the Lewisville Town Square, will include several cooking contests.

Officials are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man who fell about 70 feet while working with a crew that was sandblasting the town water tower in Epping, N.H. Police say the man fell and landed on his back shortly after 6 p.m. Friday.

Officials are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man who fell about 70 feet while working with a crew that was sandblasting the town water tower in Epping, N.H. Police say the man fell and landed on his back shortly after 6 p.m. Friday.

"Lightnin' bugs are too good for us." I wrote that line a few years ago - could have been as much as a decade back now that I think about it.

All ages. Meal provided nightly. v Today through Friday, 6:30 to 9 p.m., Vacation Bible School a oeBoomerang Expressa at Pinnacle View Baptist Church, 1332 Shoals Road, Pinnacle.

The Department of Transportation has begun work on a project at Clyde Amos Road on Highway 89 in Danbury.