Fancy Gap News

As the July 4th holiday approaches, there is much to do in Carroll County. The Town of Hillsville will host its annual July 4th Parade at 4 p.m. and its fireworks display at approximately 9:30 p.m. Plenty of other activities are scheduled in town throughout the day, while Fancy Gap gets in on the action with festivities from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Local ...

In politics, the two sides in a debate take the same information and make it look as good or as bad as possible in an effort to convince others that only their view is right.

Announcement : Song of the Mountains Festival Celebration is This Weekend BMNN wrote: on Jun.

Continuing rain is making hay hard to harvest and filling creek banks, but it's also slowing down work on Fancy Gap's new Dollar General store.

From left: Jim Marshall, Roger Boyer, Eldon Gardner and Deb Boyer jam at the Fancy Gap Pickina Porch during the Inaugural Pickina Porch Day on June 13.

Finishing a process that began 11 years ago, Carroll County finally approved a completed subdivision ordinance June 8. After nearly an hour of discussion to make a few final changes, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve a subdivision ordinance that has been under construction since 1998, county attorney Jim Cornwell ...

Emily Page Beamer, 11, of Hillsville passed away Tuesday at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, N.C. Emily had been diagnosed with pineoblastoma brain tumor on March 13, 2008, and had been undergoing chemotherapy at Duke University.

McCraw Reunion, descendants of James Calvin and Susan Easter McCraw will be held at Ruben's Red Lantern from 12 - 4 p.m. Ruben's Red Lantern is located 1/2 mile off I-77, Exit 8 on Kelly Road, Fancy Gap.

Much like the tractor trailers that try to negotiate Lambsburg Mountain, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors were left stuck after a public hearing regarding Route 620 restrictions on May 11.

The effort to keep tractor-trailers from getting stuck on Lambsburg Mountain hit a roadblock in May when Carroll supervisors learned it would apply to dump trucks, too.

Locals are used to thinking of Carroll County as a windswept place - and researchers studying wind energy production say that's partly true.

Carroll Countya s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2009-2010 includes no operating funds for the county swimming pool.

In last week's column I expressed my distaste for the word issue when used to mean a problem .

Police in Alabama have arrested one of two men wanted on charges of shooting at tractor-trailers along Interstate 77 in southwest Virginia.

Police are looking for two North Carolina men charged with shooting at three tractor-trailers along Interstate 77 in southwest Virginia.

High winds caused a wreck on Interstate 77 northbound Monday afternoon. It happened around 4 p.m. at mile marker 11, that's near Fancy Gap.

Two of three suspects arrested after Carroll deputies found 313 pounds of marijuana hidden away in a tractor-trailer now face federal charges.

Virginia State Police are asking the public for help in identifying a suspect in the shootings of three tractor trailers on Interstate 77 near Fancy Gap.

The Virginia State Police is intensifying its search for leads in a series of tractor-trailer shootings last week along Interstate 77 south of Fancy Gap near the Surry County line.

Following a short, but somewhat steep, trail downhill, then rounding the bend, adventurers might find what seems to be a simple den with a large open entrance.