Whitetop News

The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band from the highest mountains of Virginia.

Ya learn something every day. Ever heard of a mountain delicacy called "ramp"? Neither did I. Apparently it's a wild leek or wild onion that grows in a relatively confined area of Southwest Virginia and northern North Carolina that is considered a delicacy by those who know of them and love them.

Built by Lutheran missionaries, the Konnarock Girls' School was a prestigious place for young women to attend in the early 20th century, when the region lacked modern roads and education.

The world might be moving ahead at breakneck pace, but that's one reason so many people come back here every year: to get centered again on down-home food, old-time music and unhurried fun.

Bikers, hikers and nature enthusiasts will flock to the little town of Damascus, Virginia this weekend for the 23rd Annual Appalachian Trail Days.

ABINGDON, Va. - Kyle Buckland stood on the brick sidewalks of Abingdon, tightening his easel.

Hearing about all those people pouring into Damascus, Va., on the Virginia Creeper Trail made Sandra Tanner enthused.

In the wet and the fog and the mud, people came out in droves Saturday to welcome spring with the first seasonal festival of the year: the Whitetop Mountain Maple Festival.

Blame the potency of the sugar rush. Or maybe Buryl Greer just got a little happy when he got sappy.

Grayson County has taken huge steps forward in its tourism industry in the past year and the results are finally being seen.

BMNN wrote: on Dec. 15, 2008: The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band from the highest mountains of Virginia.

It would be a Christmas to remember. A few days before Christmas 2006, I found myself - as a newspaper employee and as Santa - smack in the middle of a news story and full of conflicting duties.

Skylar Jade Blevins was just 3 months old when she died of sudden infant death syndrome June 29, 2005.