“You have to go to Florida; you’re good luck.”
Taylor Doss kneeled beside Dale Orfield on the grass.
“If I was ever to go (to Florida ) this would be it, but I can’t go,” Orfield said. “I’m too old. I’m 78.”

Clarence “Tilly” Walker of Northeast Tennessee was one of game’s great power hitters in early days of the game and is the fifth player featured in a series of stories on ex-locals in the pros

With all the negativity in the news anymore, be it the war in Iraq to domestic violence to child abuse to gas prices, what’s needed every now and again is a feel-good story.
The following is simply that, the story of a former Bland County Bears football player whose life God chose to spare in a violent motorcycle crash a couple of months ago.
Zach Perkins was enjoying a day with friends, riding for a cause. He and several of his ‘biker buddies’ were returning home on May 26 after participating in the Ride for the Wall Memorial. A brief moment in time quickly changed the young man’s life as well as anyone whom he called family and friends.

Tigers bring home the crown in softball play

Richlands senior league team win state crown

The O’Reilly Southern National Series rolled into town Monday night for its first race of a 10-race schedule spanning 13 nights

By the time this story hits the newsstands on Saturday morning, Zack Puckett will have arrived in Farmington, New Mexico, to prepare for the national high school rodeo finals.

The Galax All-Stars defeated Wythe County West 14-1 Tuesday afternoon to win the Dixie Youth Baseball District One AAA tournament.

The Hogoheegee District and Mountain Empire District boys’ and girls’ basketball tournaments continue throughout this week.
Both districts’ girls’ tourneys began Monday night. The Fort Chiswell and George Wythe girls’ teams both received byes to the semifinal round.