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Today's News

  • Local pastors planning prison ministry

    INDEPENDENCE ― A meeting is planned for June 6 to discuss plans to open a prison ministry at the new River North Correctional Center in Independence.
    According to reports, neither the Virginia Department of Corrections nor Chaplain Service Prison Ministry of Virginia has funds to place a chaplain at the prison.
    The Rev. Terri Gregory, pastor of the Independence United Methodist Church, said plans are to organize a “River North Ministry Council” made up of ministers and laypeople in the surrounding counties of Virginia and North Carolina.

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  • VDOT gets $6 million for I-77 signs

    SALEM — The Commonwealth Transportation Board has found funding for safety improvements on Interstate 77 in Carroll County, including additional condition sensors and a variable speed limit system.
    These measures were already planned, but unfunded, when nearly 100 cars were involved in a massive Easter Sunday crash that killed three and injured dozens more on the foggy stretch of highway in Carroll.

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  • Arrest Reports 5/20/13

    The Gazette is partnering with local police departments to publish photos of suspects arrested and charged.

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  • What's the buzz on cicadas?

    BLACKSBURG — While certain areas of Virginia are abuzz with the sound of cicadas, the Twin Counties will stay relatively quiet on that front.
    The arrival of the 17-year wave of the noisy and colorful cicadas — different than the annual summer brood of insects — has been much dreaded, but Virginia Tech Entomologist Eric Day says that Twin County residents shouldn’t have to stuff too much cotton in their ears to block the buzzing.

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  • Local relief on the way to Oklahoma

    Firefighters are joining with a local church and a Galax industry to collect and deliver much-needed supplies to victims of deadly tornados in Oklahoma.
    This week, pastor Michael Morris, announced that Cornerstone Church in Galax was joining with the Galax Volunteer Fire Department and God’s Pit Crew to collect supplies on Saturday. They will be at Walmart in Galax starting at 8 a.m.
    The local Woods River Chapter of American Red Cross also is collecting monetary donations from the community to help with disaster relief.

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  • MED BASEBALL POSTPONED

     The Mountain Empire District baseball tournament has been postponed for another day after Wednesday's heavy rains rendered the Felts Park field unplayable for Thursday.

    Grayson County and Fort Chiswell will pick up play at 2 p.m. with Grayson leading 3-0 in the bottom of the second. The Galax-Narrows semifinal will follow.

    The finals will be played Saturday, time TBA, if Grayson wins its semifinal. If Fort Chiswell wins, the finals will be played Friday.

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  • Tide blanks G-girls to reach semis

    After a nondescript start, Galax finished strong in its Mountain Empire District quarterfinal win over Graham. Kinda like the Maroon Tide’s season in general.

    Having started the season by dropping 10 of its first 13 games, and having seen its first six batters retired in order on Monday, Galax won for the fifth time in its last seven outings by coming on strong in the third and fourth innings, blowing past Graham 10-0 in a five-inning game at Mountain View Park.

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  • MED baseball and softball tournaments suspended

     The semifinal rounds of the Mountain Empire District baseball and softball tournaments were both suspended Wednesday due to the thunderstorm that swept through the area. In softball, Galax led Fort Chiswell 6-3 with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning when play was halted two outs short of an official game. Play resumed Thursday at the point where it was stopped.

    In baseball, Grayson County led Fort Chiswell 3-0 in the bottom of the second when the game was suspended. It, too, was resumed Thursday at the point which the game was halted.

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  • Carroll girls edge Martinsville in Region IV tennis

    MARTINSVILLE –– Carroll County took two of the three doubles matches and three of the five completed singles matches to get past Martinsville 5-3 in the quarterfinals Tuesday of the Region IV girls’ tennis team tournament at Martinsville High School.

    The Cavaliers’ Cassidi McCann and Kelly Lundy defeated Kate Dietrich and Hannah LaPrade 6-3, 6-4 and teammates Sarah Light and Kirstin Robinson downed the Bulldog duo of Violet Mazurek and Ashleigh Buck 6-1, 6-2 for a 2-1 Carroll team advantage entering singles play.

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  • Cavs upset in SWD semis

    HILLSVILLE –– Scoring opportunities like the one Tazewell wasted in the first inning against Carroll County have been few and far between in games between the two this year.

    The Bulldogs didn’t blow their second chance.

    Having come up empty despite three first-inning singles, Tazewell pushed four runs across in a decisive third-inning rally and went on to shut out the Cavaliers 5-0 in the Southwest District softball semifinals Tuesday at CCHS.

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