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  • Cavaliers rally from 5-0 deficit to top Grayson County, 6-5

    HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County rallied from five runs down and edged Grayson County 6-5 in a nondistrict baseball game Thursday at Bill Worrell Field.

    Trailing 5-4, the Cavaliers got the tying and go-ahead runs when Jordan Lamb beat out an infield single, Brett Anauo walked and Craig Rosen drove in both runners with a two-out double.

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  • Cavaliers rally again, top Richlands

    HILLSVILLE –– Carroll County trailed Richlands 8-2 in the bottom of the fifth before rallying for a dramatic 9-8 win in a Southwest District baseball game Friday at Bill Worrell Field.

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  • Galax wins rematch, 1-1

     Galax didn’t exactly beat Radford, but the Maroon Tide certainly left the field in a better mood than the last time the two teams met.

    Galax, which dropped a 4-0 decision to the Bobcats in the Group A state championship game last June, deflected charge after charge by Radford and answered a late goal with one of its own, holding on to salvage a 1-1 draw in a nondistrict match Friday night.

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  • Cavaliers roll past Graham, 7-4

    HILLSVILLE -- If not for the fact that it is used as an actual soccer term, ‘shootout’ would have fit nicely in Carroll County’s win Monday over Graham.

    With 11 total goals scored, it is quite suitable nonetheless.

    Goals came early, often and in bunches at Tommy Thompson Field as the Cavaliers rolled past the G-Men 7-4 in a Southwest District match.

    Matt Felts and Lucas Webb combined for five goals and three assists for the Cavaliers.

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  • Trading Spaces

    Looking for a house a few blocks from Palm Beach in sunny Florida?

    Susannah Pushkin, whose grandparents were originally from Baywood, is hoping someone will agree to trade her a home in Galax in exchange for her 1,358-square-foot house in Lantana, Fl.

    Pushkin is the owner of a two-story, 100-year-old farmhouse in the Baywood community of Grayson County, and is looking for something to do with the property. In order to begin working on the place, she needs a home back in Galax.

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  • Dialect Discrimination

    Holly Padgett Parker of Raleigh, N.C., is a Galax native and the city was her home for 27 years. “I miss it every single day,” she says.

    Let’s talk a little bit about dialect and colloquialisms.

    A few years ago, I was offered a hostess position at a very ritzy restaurant in downtown Raleigh, N.C. The owner and my company had done some business together and the owner was so impressed with my demeanor and professionalism that he asked me to come to work on a part-time basis and train potential hostesses about customer service and attitude.

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  • County administrator to head PSA

    HILLSVILLE — The Carroll County supervisors added responsibilities for water and sewer projects and operations to the county administrator's duties after a joint closed meeting Monday between the county board and the Public Service Authority.

    The board and the authority members emerged from an unusual joint closed session at the supervisors' regular April meeting and ended the interim appointment of Assistant County Administrator Ronald Newman as director of the PSA.

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  • Welcome to Tuna, Texas (Population: 2)

    When the show's over, actors Randy Carico and Art Pemberton might have an identity crisis.

    The pair stars in the Galax Theatre Guild and New River Players production of the popular laugh-out-loud comedy “Greater Tuna,” opening later this month at the Rex Theater in downtown Galax.

    Carico, of Pinnacle, N.C., and Pemberton, of Galax, portray all of the 20 eccentric characters — of both genders and various ages — in the town of Tuna, Tex.

    They quickly change personas and costumes throughout the production.

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  • Police search for car, passenger in I-77 trucker shooting case

    WYTHEVILLE — Virginia State Police are seeking an older model Plymouth car and its two or three occupants that allegedly took shots at three tractor-trailers on Interstate 77 in southern Carroll County on the morning of April 16.

    Anyone who has information about a brown or gold early 1990s model Plymouth Acclaim should contact the state police's Wytheville office at (276) 228-3131, said Sgt. Mike Conroy.

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  • Police file murder charge in missing person case

    UPDATED APRIL 23:

    HILLSVILLE — Carroll authorities filed a first-degree murder charge against a Cana man less than one day after a citizen found a body in Lambsburg on April 16.

    Sheriff Warren Manning announced late on April 17 that deputies charged Chad James Hall of Cana with first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and obstruction of justice.

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