Thursday, January 16th, 2020
It has become a recognizable whir, one we hear at football games, festivals or walking across a parking lot. The buzz is similar to that of a flying stink bug, if amplified 100 times. But it’s not a stink bug (or a bird or a plane). It’s a drone! And they’re everywhere. A drone, by
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Their stories all begin in desperate places. Many of them – a stunning 65% or more – rise victoriously to overcome drug and alcohol addiction, be restored with their families, get married, become employed, finish college, be...
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Friday, May 12th, 2017
Having grown up on Hillside Farm in Pulaski County, it seemed only natural to Scott Flory that he remain on the land that has been farmed by his family (the Guthries) since 1795, so he became a...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2016
Text by Jennifer Poff Cooper | Photos by Kristie Lea Photography Windy Hill GuitarWorks began in 1992 after Mike Mears took a trip on a whim to the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth, Penn. It dawned...
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Monday, July 18th, 2016
Late one morning, Corinne Graefe walked through an outbuilding that’s part of the fine furniture business, Phoenix Hardwoods, she and her husband, Bill, operate in Floyd. In the warm shadowy light, she examined slabs of various hardwood...
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Monday, May 16th, 2016
Text by Kelsey Foster | Photos by Nathan Cooke Giles County has a long, somewhat divisive relationship with alcohol. Because mixed-alcohol beverages are illegal in the county, one local legislator passed a law permitting any business...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
Text by Karl H. Kazaks Photos by Tom Wallace When you first see Gerry Clark’s 2016 Polaris Slingshot, it’s hard to know whether to call it a motorcycle or a car. It has no top and...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2015
The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for the Third Annual MontGOmery SHOPPING initiative in partnership with Downtown Blacksburg, Inc., the Town of Christiansburg and Montgomery County. Proclamations have been signed by Mayor Ron Rordam...
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Monday, March 30th, 2015
There doesn’t seem to have been a time in the life of Jeni Benos when she wasn’t shaping horses out of whatever material was handy – clay, metal, wire. “I’ve always been 3-D inclined,” states the 30-something...
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Friday, January 9th, 2015
A hearty, big thank you goes out to Duncan Driscoll of Blacksburg for driving around the countryside on fall weekends. He stumbled on the Wildwood Farms General Store some five miles south of Floyd, discovering, among other...
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