Today's News

Effective Nov. 15, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) made three synthetic phenethylamines illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) for the next two years.
“These drugs are marketed online and through illicit channels as illicit hallucinogens such as LSD,” said a news release from the DEA, shared by Grayson County Sheriff Richard Vaughan. “They have been encountered as powders, liquid solutions, soaked onto blotter paper and laced on edible items.”

HILLSVILLE — Carroll Public Service Authority officials say that the lack of an environmental report for the Joy Ranch Road sewer line led to Rural Development asking the county to return $266,000 in federal funding.
The authority, after repaying the money, has appealed the federal agency’s ruling, PSA Chairman Tom Littrell told The Gazette. The appeal is still in process.

Works both ways
A lot of stores and gas stations have signs up saying, “don’t be on cell phones in the checkout line.” They consider it rude and don’t want it to happen. Isn’t it just as rude to walk into a service station or store and the cashier is sitting there on a cell phone and talking? If customers shouldn’t be on their phones in the checkout line, don’t you think the cashier should not be on their phone either? It just makes common sense to me. What goes around, comes around. Do it both ways.

HILLSVILLE — Carroll County’s Teacher of the Year made a career change in her early 40s, moving from business to the world of education.
Connie Reece, teacher of eighth grade math and algebra at Carroll Middle School, said she wishes she had the foresight to become a teacher earlier in life.
After leaving her job as customer services and prototype manager at brake maker TMD Friction in Dublin, Reece has taught in Carroll County for nine years.
“I wish I’d done it sooner,” she said. “I love it.”