I admit more then some reluctance to celebrate this year’s Indepence Day. Do we have any indepence to honor or celebrate.

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 ...

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 ...

Korey Turpin of the Buffaloes goes for a score. (All Photosby Doug Thompson) Taking the lead from the beginning at a home match against the Blacksburg Bruins, the varsity Buffaloes let my more tthab ...

The Special Wesather Statement issued today by the National Weather Service was, at best, foggy.

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 ...

For 46 years now the Carroll County Gun Show and Flea Market has reigned as the big show on Labor Day in Southwestern Virginia, bringing crowds that estimates say easily top 100,000 to Hillsville, a ...

Losing a local legend like Arthur Conner is hard enough in the best of times. In these days with death around us so much because of a pandemic, a loss by the 95-year-old Conner reminds us that mort… ...

For the first time in my 31 years as a recovering alcoholic, I missed a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous to celebrate another year of sobriety and receive my coin to mark the event. The last year ha… ...

With a 5-5 regular season record the Buffs head into post season play next week.

Natalie Morris tires to find an opening for a shot. (Photo from a earlier game. The Lady Buffaloes, playing in a gym where school and classes remained closed by weather, fell to James River Thursday, ...

A large abscess containing multiple bacteria, including a rare one that infected my blood, plus a previously undiagnosed heart problem.