Jean-Phillipe Devillers’ visit to Floyd was part of his “Around the U.S. in 80 days’ trip.“

The first day of classes for all students will be Wednesday, Aug. 22. Here’s information about parent-teacher meetings, fees, bus routes and more.

For three days and nights my wife worked. She pricked her fingers with pins and needles. She went without sleep at night and soldiered through the next days with those hollow zombie eyes, cooking food and making sure the boys stayed reasonably clean, as clean as any 4- and 5-year-old needs to stay during summer break. She measured their bodies while they slept. And once, that I know of, she trotted up above the garden with a ruler to get readings on Fools, the goat eating the tree line up there.

The snack choices at the Virginia Highlands Festival were…well…ho-hum.  I ate my once-annual funnel cake, but I could have gotten it at any other festival.  Vendors offered all the other standard festival food, like bloomin’ onions, and Kettle-Korn, and that curly potato thing. 

It doesn’t matter if Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Lee Harrell wins his defamation suit against Sunny Daze owners Michael and Linda Dix. His boss won’t regardless of the outcome.
Harrell filed a civil suit against the convenience store owners, asking for $600,000 - $500,000 in punitive and $100,000 in compensatory damages – because a Web site maintained by the Dixes claims Harrell lied in court.

This black oil has nothing to do with gas prices.
In the hands of Roni Pattison, it’s a shadow, an eyelash, a boulder.
Combined with other oils in blues, reds and yellows, it becomes a vibrant portrait of a grinning child or a grazing horse.

Explanation of Cogno’s Corner question in The Mountain Adviser 0811

For most of her life Kristen Elliott has been the student. Now she will be the teacher.

A store along the Blue Ridge Parkway takes visitors down memory lane.

I was kind of hoping that just maybe No. 756 wouldn’t happen.