Carroll County News

A 26-year-old Woodlawn man accused of burning down his own home after a domestic dispute last September pleaded guilty to that and other charges in Carroll County Circuit Court last Thursday.

Nine days after the Hillsville Fire Department voted to reinstate him, Carroll County suspended Roger Hawthorne from the operation of county emergency services equipment.

A former Pulaski police officer arrested on drug charges in two neighboring counties has been released on bond.

A search of a home at 204 Cross Ridge Lane in Galax has lead to three state charges being filed against a Galax man, Autreyhue Dane Davis.

Carroll County PSA Chairman Sam Dickson uses a map to show the progress the county has made in adding water and sewer services throughout Carroll over the past two years.

Carroll County Alzheimera s/Dementia Caregivers Meeting will be held today at 10 a.m. at the Carroll County Senior Citizens Center, 449 Training Center Rd., Hillsville, in the downstairs room.

More than a year after her passing, Mary Sumner is still remembered for many reasons.

Beginning at 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 18, crews will be changing the traffic pattern in the work zone on I-77 southbound.A While the change is taking place, traffic will be reduced to one lane on I-77 southbound.A When the traffic pattern change is completed, two lanes of traffic will remain open on southbound I-77, but traffic will run on either ...

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 ...

June 17, 2009 More charges placed against Pulaski police officer More criminal charges have been filed against a Pulaski town police officer.

Effective Jan. 1, 2010, Carroll County citizens will no longer put county decals on their vehicles.

First responders in the Twin Counties have received more than $180,000 for emergency equipment through the federal stimulus package.

The Carroll supervisors had the last say in the back-and-forth on the county's subdivision ordinance at their regular June meeting Monday, and they opted for several less restrictive standards.

As part of a project to reconstruct the Major Coltrane Bridge on U.S. 52 in Hillsville, a section of the major highway in Carroll County will be closed for up to four months.

The Carroll Industrial Development Authority rejected Log Cabin Homes owner Tom Vesce's submitted site plan last Thursday, but county officials said they would work with the company on a second attempt.

A National Weather Service hydrologist got an eyeful of Chestnut Creek in Galax and Carroll County after more than three inches of rain dropped from the skies on May 27.

Grayson County will welcome only its third county administrator in history on June 1, as Jonathan Sweet returns home.

The executive director of the Carroll Wellness Center has taken a leave of absence after allegedly hitting a parked police car while drunk on May 22.

Carroll supervisors have scheduled a public hearing for their regular June meeting to hear comments on a plan to do away with vehicle decals.

Two people entered pleas in Carroll County Circuit Court on May 21 to charges stemming from a 2008 vehicle vs.