Floyd News

FLETCHER The Carolina Mountain Ribfest, happening this weekend at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center, has plenty of barbecue, amusement rides, and car and bike shows.

Bigelf's metallic circus-influenced music is a quilt of T.Rex, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd.

Celebrate freedom with music in the courtyard. Food and wine available for purchase.

Adopt a more nuanced approach to personal technology for Floyd schools. The Floyd County School Board will meet on Monday to discuss revisions to the Standards of Student Conduct and Attendance.

Young is charged with first degree murder, second degree murder, and felony hit and run in the death of former Roanoke attorney Tom Farrell back on January 28, 2008.

Saturday's celebration in downtown Floyd Virginia was billed as a one of a kind celebration of music, art, food, and community spirit.

A former service station has been transformed into a 17,000-square-foot space for retail and apartments.

A few weeks ago,we caught the tail end of a special on Square Foot Gardening and it inspired me to start container gardening again, but in a new and more productive way.

Submitted by Doug Thompson on June 9, 2009 - 7:49am. General It's primary day in Virginia with spirited races for the Democratic and Republican nomination for governor.

As many have noted before Kodachrome Basin State Park is a nice retreat from the crowds of the nearby Bryce National Park.

Sounds of silence: Local radio host Craig Bailey. The voice of rock band Pink Floyd.

I think this is an obligatory shot for anyone visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which holds 35,000 plants and animals representing 623 species .

Nathan Cronk , a Bluefield College student from Floyd County, recently went on a mission trip to trip to Nanjing, China.

Well, not quite. In the latest production by Floyd County's maturing Young Actors Co-op, the Fab Four have become a faux four -- a boy band composed of fakers who couldn't twist and shout their way out of a wet paper bag.

David Stewart Wiley conducts the RSO at the 2008 "Rock Symphony Circus" concert.

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A commenter yesterday brought to our attention the fact that A. Carol Pratt, 6th District challenger for the House of Delegates has a somewhat impressive background .

A woman from Floyd died in a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning, police said. Ashley Renee Chaffin, 23, was not wearing a seat belt shortly after 10 a.m. when the 2004 Pontiac Sunfire she was driving went off a Floyd County road and flipped several times, said Sgt.

May 3, 2009 Woman killed in Floyd County crash A young woman is dead after an accident this morning in Floyd.

Kevin Myatt grew up in Arkansas to the tune of tornado sirens and the rhythm of hailstones, aspiring to be a meteorologist before his studies and career were turned to journalism instead.