Today's News

HILLSVILLE — Final revisions to the phase III construction plan for Carroll high and intermediate schools are complete and the projects are being rebid. At its Aug. 9 meeting, the Carroll School Board heard from Pinnacle Architect’s Randy Baker that the bid specifications would soon be ready to advertise.
The goal of the construction project is to close the aging Woodlawn school. To do that, educators have to move those students to the intermediate school and the ninth grade to the high school to make room.

FLOYD – It sounds like a basketball score but it was actually the first football game of the season between Grayson County and Floyd County.

When the dust settled, the Blue Devils came away with a 64-40 victory in a benefit game that doesn’t count in the regular season record.

But the players approached the game as the opportunity to open the season with a victory and build some momentum for this Friday night’s opening game against the Alleghany Trojans in Sparta, N.C.

WYTHEVILLE — A 58-year-old Ivanhoe man was killed and a 64-year-old Fries man was injured in a head-on collision on Ivanhoe Road Friday at 11:17 a.m.

Virginia State Police Trooper C.O. Brown identified the driver who was killed as Richard Jefferson Jr., who was driving a Suzuki SX4 hatchback at the time.

That vehicle was struck by a 2000 Ford Excursion, driven by James Douglas Underwood. The trooper reported that the Ford went across the line and into oncoming traffic.