The Floyd Press: News
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Floyd Harvest Festival and County Fair is Saturday, September 20The event features exhibits as well as music and vendors.
Kicked out of a drug treatment program because they smoked cigarettes, the women wentto jail to await full hearings on probation violations.
The chief administrative officer of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) ruled to grant the license to Shooting Creek Farms Brewery, dismissing the claim of some nearby residents who claimed the business would disrupt their quality of life and endanger users of the road.
Portable Produce delivers surplus vegetables, fruit and other food to people without transportation in Floyd County.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Squad trainingProposals equate to more time and cost for local rescue squad members.
Resident engineer Bob Beasley told Supervisors that VDOT has been ordered to prepare three sets of budget reductions for the upcoming General Assembly session.
Hours at the town’s new public restrooms are being reduced following a vandalism incident.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Man’s father, friends ask for leniencyThe judge did grant a request that the Virginia Department of Corrections place Zopf in a prison that has a “therapeutic” drug dependence program.
Proceeds from the town-sponsored benefit went to Duke’s brain tumor center.
Tracking,, Will Dotson says, is “the blending of physiology, psychology, geology, botany, meteorology, and more.”