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Today's News

  • Vaughn waives right to preliminary hearing

    HILLSVILLE — A Woodlawn man who was picked up on a misdemeanor charge in August but managed to escape from police will now face a grand jury for a felony.
    Toby Lee Vaughn, 23, had an outstanding misdemeanor charge for destroying cemetery property when Deputy Barry Lineberry conducted a vehicle stop on Sharp Road in the Laurel community.
    Lineberry handcuffed Vaughn, but he got loose and ran.

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  • Suspicious fire destroys business

    The old Stevens Creek school building was destroyed by a fire that was reported shortly before midnight on Oct. 28.

    The Fries and Galax volunteer fire departments battled the blaze, located on Pine Ridge Lane off Stevens Creek Road, for several hours before it was brought under control.

    Grayson County Sheriff Richard Vaughan said arson investigators with the Virginia State Police were due on the scene Monday to begin their investigation. He termed the fire “suspicious.”

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  • Ice cream recalled due to allergen

    A recall has been issued for Kay’s Classic vanilla bean ice cream sold by Food City and Super Dollar stores in Virginia.
    Manufacturer Schoep’s Ice Cream Company of Madison, Wis., alerted customers that because of a packaging error, the ice cream contains an undeclared allergen.
    The recall was initiated upon discovery that certain containers of Kay’s vanilla bean ice cream contained Kay’s Butter Pecan Ice Cream.

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  • Readers' Hotline 10/31/12

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  • Woodlawn woman passes away after early Oct. wreck

    UPDATE — An 80-year-old Woodlawn woman involved in a two-vehicle collision Oct. 3 has died.

    Ila Faye Payne passed away Oct. 27 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to an obituary from Vaughan Guynn Funeral Home.

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  • Halloween Events Planned: UPDATED

    UPDATED: Due to the remnants of Hurricane Sandy passing through on Wednesday and expected temperatures in the 30s, several Halloween activities — including those in Independence and Galax — have changed venues:

    Oct. 30: Grayson Children's Center

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  • Storm has at least one Carroll victim already

    HILLSVILLE — Even in the quiet before the storm Hurricane Sandy struck, the winds blew over a tractor-trailer on Interstate 77 Monday morning, according to local authorities.

    Not a lot of information was immediately available, but Virginia State Police First. Sgt. Mike Musser described it as being like a usual wind-related accident at the 3 mile marker in the Lambsburg area.

    The place has a history of empty tractor-trailers falling victim to the wind in that spot.

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  • Lundy tosses three TD passes in 36-18 win

     NARROWS –– Grayson County jumped out to a 29-6 halftime lead and rolled over Narrows 36-18 in a Mountain Empire District game Friday at Ragsdale Field.

    Filling in for injured starter Max Rodgers, quarterback Tyler Lundy threw three touchdown passes in the first half as the Blue Devils (7-2 overall, 3-1 overall) never trailed.

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  • Tide starts big, blasts Bland Co.

    Galax used 35 first quarter points Friday night en route to a 56-14 thrashing of district foe Bland County to pull even in Mountain Empire District play.

    The Tide (6-3 overall, 2-2 district) held the ball for a miniscule 1:08 during the first 12 minutes of the game and touched the ball only seven times before the clock began to run continuously.

    Bland County (0-9, 0-4) scored a season-high 14 points, but found little success with its triple option offense.

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  • Marion surges past Cavaliers

    HILLSVILLE –– Marion used consecutive one-play scoring drives in the third quarter to break open a tight ballgame, and the Scarlet Hurricane dominated the second half to take a 35-6 Southwest District win over Carroll County Friday at Tommy Thompson Field.

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