Today's News

Chestnut Creek School of the Arts in Galax review its progress over the past year and looked ahead to a new woodworking studio at its most recent board meeting.
For the school’s first year, 2011-2012, the school showed an overall growth of 173 percent. Documents shared with the CCSA board showed a significant rise in numbers in most of the categories, including Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) hours, outreach and on-demand usage, the Empty Bowls project, The Galax Art Guild and facility usage.

 INDEPENDENCE –– Six-run innings don’t happen to Grayson County. Six-run innings almost never happen in the region semifinals.

A six-run inning in the region semifinals ended the Blue Devils’ season on Thursday.

Reaching a level of the postseason where final scores like 1-0 and 2-1 are more the norm, Floyd County exploded for a half-dozen runs in the top of the third inning and coasted past the Blue Devils 9-2 in the Region C Division 2 semifinals at the Grayson Rec. Park.

WYTHEVILLE –– The politically correct and thus more palatable term favored by the VHSL is ‘sudden victory’ overtime. It all depends upon one’s perspective. Radford could certainly go along with the categorization, Galax would strongly disagree.

Galax-Grayson EMS responded to an accident near Camp Zion Road in Galax the afternoon of May 27.
They arrived on the scene to find that Billy Redd of Galax, 77, had sustained serious injuries in a lawnmower accident.
At press time, there was no further information about the nature of the accident.
While the Galax Volunteer Fire Department did not respond to the scene, Fire Chief David Hankley confirmed that Redd’s condition was urgent enough to require an airlift to the hospital.