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For the first time in my 31 years as a recovering alcoholic, I missed a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous to celebrate another ...
The basketball Buffs took the lead early against the tough Dan River squad from Pittsylvania County and beat back attempts to spoili the match, but the Floyd County boys fought back and took a 10-pt ...
Spent more than 22 hours in bed Friday night and Saturday morning after an eye surgeon finished restoring the vision of my right orb to 20/20 vision, completing the last of several operations over ...
Music festivals like the annual FloydFest event just off the Blue Ridge Parkway each summer generally have a reputation as laid-back gatherings where peace, tranquility and love supersede anger, ...
George Michael recognized sports for what it was: entertainment. He covered all sports with a passion: football, baseball, basketball, wrestling, rodeo, NASCAR and even “wiener-dog racing” Like my ...
Taking the lead from the beginning at a home match against the Blacksburg Bruins, the varsity Buffaloes let my more tthab 20 points by halftime took a 76-51 win on the Alan Cabtrell Court at Floyd ...
Floyd County may lay claim to “The Man Who Moved a Mountain,” but moving mountains and rerouting rivers is business as usual in Grundy, the Buchanan County seat in deep Southwestern Virginia. And at a ...
Power Direct, the telemarketing company behind Data Knight 365, the shadowy firm that announced last week it would spend more than $20 million to build a “world class data center” in Floyd’s ...
Legendary Bluegrass musician and singer Sam Bush is a favorite in our household, especially because he is an avowed fan of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball program and often appears on stage wearing a ...
Enthusiastic fans cheer their Buffs. For much of the quarter-final match of state basketball play Tuesday night at Floyd County High School, the tough Virginia Hight Bearcats controlled the game with ...
They call it the largest Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in the world — thousands of recovering addicts who journey to Akron each year for Founders Day: The anniversary of the beginning of the group that ...
Back in the days of life in Washington, DC. Photo taken for MacWorld magazine for feature when Doug Thompson was called Capitol Hill’s unofficial Macintosb expert. He started using Mac computers by ...