Today's News

HILLSVILLE — Hillsville Town Council adopted several changes to ordinances at its March 25 meeting.
Some of the town codes needed updates to match up with Virginia state law, said Hillsville Town Manager Travis Jackson. Other were updated to improve or simplify their readability.
No citizens spoke at a public hearing on March 25 about the changes, so council moved ahead with adoption. All the changes passed by unanimous vote.
Changes include:

HILLSVILLE — Bands played, choruses sang and ribbons were cut while students and staff cheered the completion of construction work at Carroll County high and intermediate schools on April 2.
Schools Superintendent Strader Blankenship told the students at both schools that wrapping up the additions and renovations for phase III construction caps off a decade-and-a-half of work in a countywide effort to improve facilities in Carroll.

Lights on
I’m calling about the fog in Fancy Gap and Galax and everywhere else around. It is a law in Virginia to have your lights on and there are a lot of cars that don’t drive with their lights on in the rain and the fog. If the police would start ticketing them, maybe we wouldn’t have so many wrecks.

Show of respect

By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
The Church Sisters, a bluegrass gospel group from Danville, are picking up and moving to Galax to further their music career and become more involved with the local music scene.
It all began in 2006, when aspiring singer Savannah Church entered a talent competition. “It was just me and my dad, who played guitar,” she said. “I didn’t make it in myself. I thought I was a good singer, but evidently not!”