FloydFest kicks it up with Cajun swing

Don’t leave the kids at grandma’s! Bring them to FloydFest

So far, so awesome! After a long wait, a long drive and a long talk with Mother Nature, we arrived at our campsite here at FloydFest Friday morning. 

We’re packed, car’s loaded.....

With Diana Krall’s husky crooning in the background one evening, Mike Mucha and his wife, Angie, enjoyed coffee and conversation with an Abingdon couple. The easy-flowing conversation could have happened in their living room, but it was at the Muchas’ new shop on Main Street, which they playfully named “Handsome Molly’s.”

As a young girl growing up in Ceres, Hazel Waddell Sparks never imagined the path her life would take. Last month she was honored as a Harford County Living Treasure by the Harford County Council in Maryland.

If Vince Groseclose has an off switch, he apparently can’t reach it and no one else knows where it is. More likely, he’s just made to be on all the time. His energy seems inexhaustible and he may be a kind of perpetual motion machine, getting back from those around him the energy and devotion he imparts. Ever upbeat, ever authentic, he’s always in the moment, never watching for the end of his shift.

A local radio station owner, deejay and voice artist aspired to play a suspect on a television’s “Law & Order,” but his dream came true in more of a “Dateline NBC” way Wednesday. Smyth County Sheriff David Bradley and Commonwealth’s Attorney Roy Evans announced Thursday that Jeff Raynor, 45, of Glade Spring was arrested on one count of using electronic communication to solicit sexual activity with a child and one count of possession of child pornography.

BLOG: It’s not every Friday night that you get to play in the streets of downtown Marion!

What a great day for a festival in the park!