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Today's News

  • Adult, teens charged with break-ins, bus theft

    HILLSVILLE — Four teens have been charged with an Oct. 25 day-time break-in at Gladeville Elementary School, according to Carroll Sheriff Warren Manning.

    Deputies gathered information on the crime that led to a break in the case, resulting in Investigator Fred Bobbitt serving warrants against Levi Cole Roberts, 18 — no address given — and three juveniles, according to the news release from the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.

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  • Former puppy mill worker alleges animal abuse

    HILLSVILLE — A former dog-breeding operation employee, convicted of misdemeanors involving the sale of animals, has aligned himself with the Humane Society of the United States in an anti-puppy mill campaign.

    Timothy Ray Bullion of Woodlawn, who worked at Horton's Pups when authorities found the business housed up to 700 breeding dogs, made a video testimonial for the national animal advocacy group's "Puppy Mill Action Week."

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  • Tour of Trees

    Stroll through a winter wonderland of dazzling pines during the Holiday Tour of Trees, sponsored and decorated by local families, businesses and organizations to benefit Twin County Hospice.

    The Holiday Tour of Trees main event will be held Saturday from 4-7 p.m. at the Twin County Hospice office located in the Vaughan Office Suites at 818 Glendale Rd. in Galax.

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  • Gone to the dogs?

    Will Carroll County and Hillsville's national notoriety forever be based on the controversy that surrounds the commercial breeding of dogs?

    Right now, it looks like once being the home to sizable breeding operations continue to define this place — even though those businesses have apparently been shuttered here.

    Two years after animal advocates took covert video at a breeding operation in Hillsville, our localities can't seem to escape the issue nipping at its heels.

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  • Letters to the Editor for 12/7/09

    We will bear burden of health care

    Within the health care bill under debate in the U.S. Senate are requirements for states to take on more expense for Medicaid.

    Federal law requires state and local governments to balance their budgets every year, but there is no such requirement for the federal government, which is why the feds can keep printing more money or borrowing it from another country to spend outlandishly.

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  • Hunter shot, in critical condition

    A Galax man is in critical condition after an accidental shooting in Grayson County on Saturday.

    Lt. Rex Hill of the Virginia Department of Inland Fisheries said Jose Lopez-Cruz, 36, was part of a group that was hunting for deer on Andrews Farm in Grayson County.

    Hill said Lopez-Cruz was not hunting, but was coming up on the group when Edward Culler, 55, mistook him for a deer.

    Lopez-Cruz was airlifted to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, where he was listed in critical condition Monday afternoon.

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  • Country 'Idol' to perform in Galax

    Fifth season “American Idol” contestant and country music artist Kellie Pickler is scheduled to perform at Galax First Baptist Church on Dec. 14 as part of the annual Morgan Shepherd Charitable Fund visit to the Twin Counties.

    The concert at 4 p.m. is free and open to the public.

    The Dec. 14 event will also include the band Mountain Creek Harmony, "Mayberry Deputy" David Browning and Christian comedian Barry McGee.

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  • Remote diagnosis available

    Twin County Regional Hospital began using a new teleneurology program Tuesday morning, which will allow medical staff to rapidly connect with board-certified neurologists using videoconferencing at the patient's bedside.

    TCRH, in conjunction with Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., can now provide a high level of emergency stroke and critical neurology care 24 hours a day.

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  • End of the road for car tax relief?

    One of the sacred cows in Virginia’s budget — car tax relief for residents — is among items that outgoing Gov. Tim Kaine and his team are analyzing as they look to plug a state revenue hole estimated at $2.7 billion to $3.5 billion.

    Particulars of the discussions are hazy as budget talks occur among a select group of high-ranking state officials. A request for documents about the proposal made through the state open records law was denied.

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  • Nutcracker ballet opens this weekend

    Like trimming a Christmas tree, The Conservatory of Dance & Theatre’see annual ballet, The Nutcracker, is a much-anticipated holiday tradition and celebration for many local families – and the fifth annual production may just be the equivalent of placing the glowing angel atop a 12-foot Fraser fir.ee

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