by Doug Thompson | Feb 2, 2017 | Musings
Returning to Floyd County in 2004 after 39 years brought some realizations that while change is inevitable in a community, much of the area was little different from what I left in 1965. I began my high school years at the opening of Floyd County High School in 1961,...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 1, 2016 | Musings, News
Too much bad news locally as the first month of 2016 winds down. A day after the missing teenager from Blacksburg was found dead just over the North Carolina line in Surry County, two Virginia Tech students are in jail — an 18-year-old freshman and a 19-year-old...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 23, 2014 | Musings
Threats, criticisms and personal attacks go with the territory when you cover news. When a shooter killed John Lennon many years ago, I wrote about the public outcry over his murder and wondered in print if it was way too much fretting over the death of a former pop...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 18, 2014 | Musings, News
Indictments handed down this month from the Floyd County grand jury included 29 counts of child pornography against a 20-year-old Indian Valley man. Police arrested Randy Lee Phillips, a 2012 graduate of Floyd County High School, on September 4. A Virginia State...
by Doug Thompson | May 10, 2014 | Musings
The guilty pleas and prison sentences of a prominent father and his adult son on charges of child pornography has kept tongues wagging at Blue Ridge Restaurant and other gathering places in Floyd this week. But sexual crimes against underage girls and boys was a...
