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Staff Report

The entire 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway and all associated facilities, with the exception of the Pisgah Inn and Peaks of Otter Lodge, closed Friday, in anticipation of high winds and heavy rains due to the remnants of Hurricane Florence.

Bus drivers get benefits

HILLSVILLE – The Carroll County School Board has returned benefits to part-time bus drivers, after discovering it had more flexibility in its budget.

Part-time employees have been requesting a return of benefits for several months.

The school board voted to reinstate the benefits at its meeting on Sept. 11.

Several requests were made earlier this year, from part-time bus drivers employed by Carroll County Public Schools.

Grant will help FVFD recruit new...

FRIES — The Fries Volunteer Fire Department was recently awarded a grant to assist in recruiting new members, the second from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the past month.

The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant, totaling $178,616, provides funding directly to fire departments to assist them in increasing or maintaining the number of trained “front line” firefighters.

AEP project moves forward

The Galax Industrial Development Authority has sold a 16-acre parcel of land to American Electric Power for use in the utility’s $40 million Glendale Area Improvements Project.

Hillsville reburies time capsule...

HILLSVILLE – Memories will remain dormant for another 50 years, as another time capsule has been buried in downtown Hillsville in front of the Former Carroll Drug on Main Street.

Members of Friends of Hillsville helped coordinate the ceremony, and with the help of Tom Jackson (who owns the building where the new and original time capsules were buried), Joey Haynes, Bill Gallimore, Mayor Greg Crowder and Council Member Barry Jessup, a newly constructed capsule was placed back into the ground to be opened in 2068.

Galax subdues Cavs

HILLSVILLE –– Galax’s offense can generate a lot of hubbub and hullabaloo, and rightly so, with a recent string of three straight 3,000-yard rushers, then a shift this year into overdive that has resulted in more than 500 passing yards in its first two games. But the Maroon Tide defense deserves its props, too.

Keepers found guilty

CHRISTIANSBURG — On Jan. 26, 2016, Nicole Lovell of Blacksburg kissed her mother goodnight, went to her room, pushed a dresser against the door and climbed out her window to meet David Eisenhauer, an older boy she was in love with.

She never returned.

Eisenhauer, 20, is serving 75 years in prison for abducting and stabbing to death the 13-year-old, due to fears their relationship would be discovered.

Town holds public hearing for...

INDEPENDENCE ― The Independence Town Council’s plans for the downtown area ― namely, the Independence Town Park ― has been opened to suggestions from event planners and local business owners who utilize the space for local events, including the Independence Farmers’ Market.

The council held the first of several planned public hearings to discuss the town park prior to their regular monthly meeting Sept. 11. Several farmers’ market representatives attended, along with representation from the Grayson County Library.

Readers Hotline 9/10/18

Too hot to learn?
I keep seeing where schools in surrounding areas shut down early due to the extreme heat. Galax schools keep their kids in all day and I understand the heat in the classrooms is 90 to 100 degrees. How can kids and teachers focus in conditions like this? Maybe the superintendent should put his heat at 100 degrees and see if he can work in conditions like that.

Rabid

Readers Hotline 9/12/18

Willing to help
There’s no use getting upset about people that abuse children only getting a little bit of time in a jail cell. There’s too many people that are willing to help them get their way. You people support pedophiles, you help them out all the time, you can’t expect the court to do any different. They need that money, too.

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