Today's News

Voters in the Fancy Gap District have a choice of Republican challenger Phil McCraw or incumbent Manus McMillian, a Democrat, for supervisor when they go to the polls in November.

Phil McCraw
With reliable help to manage Virginia 500 Fruit Market in Cana, where he’s worked since 1970 and which he has owned since 1987, Phil McCraw says now is the time to run for supervisor and get directly involved in Carroll County government.
He doesn’t like the direction the county’s been going recently.

Since he was released from jail in 2009 after being incarcerated for drug distribution and other crimes, Jimmy Peak has been trying to turn his life around.
He has a job, attends church and lives on his own, but he faces a slew of obstacles that come with being an ex-convict.
Dressed in suit and tie, Peak told those attending a Galax community meeting on Friday about the challenges he’s faced in putting his life back together.

HILLSVILLE — It could take years to widen part of Coulson Church Road to the west of Interstate 77’s Exit 19, according to Virginia Department of Transportation officials.
Carroll officials continued driving towards their idea of widening both sides of Virginia 620 at Interstate 77 during their regular October meeting.
VDOT spokeswoman Marshall Barnhill expects two things to happen to change the scope of the original plan of widening Virginia 620 east from the 77 interchange.

 INDEPENDENCE –– Allison White was unstoppable. Harley Brewer was impenetrable.

White put away 21 kills and Brewer stonewalled her way to 18 blocks Tuesday night as Galax took an important Mountain Empire District volleyball win, knocking off Grayson County 25-14, 20-25, 25-23, 25-15.