This week marks a major attempt to return to as much of a normal life that a 78-year-old with bad knees, a pacemaker in the lower cavity of his heart and a half-dozen recommended surgeries by Carilion ...

The Twin Creeks Stringband headline the Friday Night Jamboree this week at The Floyd Country Store. Lots of entertainment this week in and around Floyd County. Here’s a list of some good ones. Our ...

A group with a lot of history, and a crowd favorite, The Whitetop Mountain Band. headlines The Friday Night Jamboree this weekend at The Floyd Country Store. The music and dancing kick off at 7:30 p.m ...

After a couple of days off, the rain is falling again, daily, and is expected to continue for at least another seven or eight days, Thunderstorms have appeared as well, and blinking lights show ...

FloydFest 26 kicks off Wednesday with high hopes and a cancellation of a featured act because of appendix surgery. A message from the Tedeschi Trucks Band laid out the bad news: At this time, the ...

Crowd at a Small Town Summer event. This week brings us to mid-July and the schedule is full of things to do for fun. Small Town Thursday, music at various venues and the Friday Nite Jamboree are ...

With FloydFest arriving this month, I have been looking through the terabytes of video I shot while covering the event for 10 years. One of my favorites featured Bluegrass legend Sam Bush and his ...

With what is happening in the perverted leadership of our nation, a sizable number of Americans, including us, are worrying aloud if the democratic republic created by our founders 250 years ago, is ...

Fifty years ago, I was single and, with my then-steady girlfriend and a vintage MG Midget British convertible sports car, headed east from Alton, Illinois towards Washington, DC, to celebrate the then ...

After Jack, a talented trio of ladies from Ferrum, appeared at the Hotel Floyd Concert Series at The Country Store in 2012 and their spirited rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Black or White”” inspired ...

Kenny Wingfield (on his motorcycle) with RVHOG friends. (Photo courtesy of Facebook) A man I I knew and admired from my time with the Roanoke Valley Harley Owners Group (RVHOG) died tragically Sunday ...

William D. (Tommy) Thompson Sr. I never had a chance to really know my father. He died from an industrial accident when I was nine months old. Most of my knowledge of him came from my mother’s stories ...