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Today's News

  • Project Linus 'Blanket Day' is Saturday

    In January, Vatress Williams of Woodlawn handed the Carroll Chapter of Project Linus over to Sarah Melton of Independence.

    Williams had served Project Linus for about five years and got the chapter to supply 4,030 blankets to children in the area.

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  • Arrest Reports 5/31/13

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

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  • Fatality leads to criminal investigation

    FANCY GAP — Carroll County authorities have launched a criminal investigation of a fatality on Interstate 77 that claimed the life of a local tow truck driver over Memorial Day weekend.
    Russell Nelson, 75, owner of Russell’s Garage in Hillsville, was struck by a car and killed on May 25, while answering a call on I-77.
    He had been in the towing business for more than 30 years, coworkers said, often responding to help others on the historically dangerous stretch of highway.

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  • George investigation continues

    Investigators on Wednesday were still awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death for a missing woman whose body was found near Fries on May 22.
    The body of Desia Rae George, 33, of Fries, was found in a creek alongside secluded Brush Creek Road in Grayson County, after a youth cutting weeds there found her cell phone and alerted police.
    The mother of four had been missing since April 15.

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  • POW/MIA section of memorial dedicated

    For veterans, the “Empty Chair” at their meetings, draped in a black POW/MIA flag or banner, is a symbol of brothers and sisters in arms who are still listed as missing in action or held as prisoners of war.
    On Memorial Day, local veterans gathered to dedicate a permanent “Empty Chair” monument to remind the community of the sacrifices of their comrades.

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  • Eight reach state track and field meets

    Galax advanced four athletes to the Group A state track and field championships, Grayson County will send three girls in four events and Carroll County had one girl reach the Group AA event after their respective region meets this past weekend.

    At Radford University Saturday, Darian Brown, Chandler Quesenberry, Megan Boyles and Jamie Mohr all placed in the top six of their respective events for the Maroon Tide while the Blue Devils saw Emma Wyatt, Mary Beth Cunningham and Olivia Wyatt score top-six finishes to earn a trip to the state meet this weekend, also at Radford.

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  • Devils, Cavs win region games, Galax ousted

    BUCHANAN –– It figures that the last two Division 2 Region C baseball teams playing would be Glenvar and Grayson County. 

    The region’s two dominant traditional powers will go at it one last time as regional members when they play for the title Friday. Glenvar blasted top-seeded Chilhowie 9-4 in the first game of Wednesday’s semifinal double-header and Grayson County chopped down Floyd County 10-2 in the nightcap at James River High School. 

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  • Grayson escapes Fort in first round

    INDEPENDENCE –– Winning its ninth straight game and for the 16th time in its last 17 outings, Grayson County did what pretty much everybody expected and played its way into the Region C Division 2 softball semifinals.

    But it wasn’t like the Blue Devils’ first-round opponent just rolled over for them.

    Fort Chiswell, which had taken five-inning losses of 12-1 and 10-0 in the regular season, and Pioneer pitcher Amber Chrisley held Grayson County to five hits as the Blue Devils scraped out a 4-0 win Tuesday at the Grayson Rec. Park.

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  • Highlanders end Grayson doubles, team tennis season

    RADFORD –– With Grayson County having won five of the first six games in the first set of the Region C boys’ tennis doubles championship Wednesday, one might have wondered just how fast the thing was going to be over with.

    As it turned out, Glenvar got it over with pretty quickly.

    The Highlander duo of Alex Dunkenberger and Colton Walls reeled off 11 straight games, then fended off a comeback attempt by Grayson’s Garrett Bailey and Mike Vaughan to win the title 7-5, 6-4 on the Dedmon Center courts.

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  • No. 20 sends Galax to state

    WYTHEVILLE –– When Galax boys’ soccer coach Troy Barkley asked his team to come up with a list of goals at the start of the season, ‘reach state tournament’ found its way somewhere on the list. The team winning its first 20 matches did not.

    They got that one anyway.

    Galax improved to 20-0 and punched its ticket to the Group A tournament with a dominant second-half effort, overwhelming Giles 5-1 at George Wythe High School’s Pendleton Field.

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