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10th annual 'Praisin'...

Staff Report

This year marks the 10th anniversary of “Praisin’ In the Park,” which started Sunday night and continues through Wednesday, 6-8:30 each night in Felts Park.

The event, put on by Cornerstone Community Church and other local churches and businesses, creates a family-friendly, Christian environment for fun and worship.

Readers Hotline 7/17/17

No answer
It’s amazing that when a controversial decision is made in Grayson County like firing a coach, you can’t get the superintendent or the school board members’ phones to work. You call and you call and you can’t get an answer. Someone needs to call the phone company and fix the phones up there in Independence.

Not fair

Great Race team wins division

Staff Report

The Crooked Road Racers once again went to the Great Race, leaving on June 21 and returning on July 3 after capturing a first-place win in the X-Cup Division and 44th place overall, according to native Galax racer Tom Littrell.

The X-Cup Division involves youth navigators with an adult driver.

The Galax team was also the first place X-Cup team in the pre-race event called the Trophy Run. It is a preliminary race held around the start city the day before the actual competition begins.

Town's historic bell could...

FRIES — Fries Town Council discussed the topic of potentially relocating the Fries bell during its monthly meeting on July 11.

Ideas include putting the bell near the planned Fries Depot site, or by the Whistle Stop Ice Cream Shop by the New River.

The large metal bell was taken down when the old Washington Mills cotton mill was demolished.

Public record for 7/12/17 edition

Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record.  
The listings are complete.
The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing. For additional information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.

District Court

These sentences were recorded in January in the Carroll County General District Court office, Hillsville. Sentences may be appealed:

Grayson rejects middle school...

By LARRY CHAMBERS, Staff

INDEPENDENCE – The Grayson County School Board has rejected a proposal that would have allowed 6th graders to participate in middle school athletics.

The proposal was brought up at the June meeting to give board members the opportunity to discuss it at the July 10 meeting.

The first question board member Fred Weatherman asked was, “why?”

Readers Hotline 7/10/17

Hiss, hiss
Isn’t Galax a great little town? I just love the “live and let live” atmosphere around here. Like my neighbor. He has this unusual hobby of raising feral cats under his front porch so his dog can chase them down in the yard and kill them. Most places, the authorities would kind of look down on this type behavior. But here in Galax, [it is viewed as] “there are too many cats in Galax anyway.” Now, ain’t Galax a great little town?

Good ole club

Grayson should reinstate...

This is a letter responding to the Grayson County School Board’s decision to not renew Charles Campbell’s position as varsity assistant baseball coach at GCHS.
Charles has coached several sports and volunteered on many occasions to assist in others. I’ve known him since he was a young player in rec league baseball, and coached him for more than 10 years. He was then and is now a very respectful person.

Like a rolling stone, art school...

Has someone decided their rock garden needs a cool new look, or is Galax the starting point of a different kind of rock tour?

Since around July 4, Chestnut Creek School of the Arts has been puzzling over that question.

A series of stones, painted by children during local festivals that the school participated in, have been left out under a tree in front of the school over the past year or so.

Readers Hotline 7/12/17

Plus-sizes
I’m calling, not to complain about the presidency or having potholes in the road. I’m calling to complain about the city not having any plus-size clothing stores other than Walmart or Cato. We need [choices] with quality clothing that will fit 5-foot-2 people instead of all just 5-foot-10 and up. Fries, you have been doing some pretty neat things lately. Why not bring in a plus-size store in to the old company store? I would travel to Fries to buy the clothing. It would be really nice if we had [that] in Galax.