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Spewing germs
I was just looking at the picture of the restrooms at Carroll County High School. This is a disgrace. Anyone knows if you flush a toilet without putting the lid down first it spews germs and all kinds of dangerous stuff all over the room and coats everything in sight. This is a health hazard in itself, not counting the no stalls for privacy. I don’t know what the world is coming to. I think we are going backward instead of forward.

Heard enough

Fewer Galax households received heating assistance funds in 2011, which could be the result of more people being hired, said Susan Clark, director of Galax Department of Social Services.
With some businesses hiring — such as the new furniture company Albany Industries, Results calling center and Consolidated Glass — “we’ve heard indication that some of our clients are getting on at these locations,” said Clark.
The heating assistance program assists low-income households in meeting their immediate home energy needs.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  — Virginia lost five law enforcement officers during 2011, a year when gun violence against police spiked nationwide, according to a report by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Preliminary information released Dec. 28 found that 173 officers had been killed in the line of duty in the past year.
This is up 13 percent from the 153 officers who died in 2010, according to the report.

Virginia ABC’s sales data for 2010-2011 rank the following as the top dozen product categories in Virginia: