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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022

Candle-Making and Dancing through High School

The entrepreneurial bug can bite young, and Lindsay Santos, 15, doesn’t remember a time when she did not want to start a business. She would daydream about it and even sketch out business plans and marketing ideas. There’s nothing like peer pressure as a teen, and when one of her friends started making and selling

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Thursday, January 16th, 2020

A Steady Drone . . . drone popularity takes off over the New River Valley

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...

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

Live in Sustainable Recovery

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

High Quality Lifestyle for Cows

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

Life’s Too Short to Play a Bad Guitar

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

For the Love of Wood

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

Drinking in Giles

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

One Street-legal Fun Machine

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

2015 Go Shopping, Shop Small, Shop Local

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

Horses, Bullets and Flowers

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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