by Doug Thompson | Sep 22, 2014 | Musings
A loud visitor helped Floyd County government kick off the new, and presently unoccupied, Innovation Center at the Economic Development Park on Christiansburg Pike Monday. The Navy Prowler was one of two that screamed low overhead for early in the speeches by various...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 1, 2010 | Featured, FUBAR, Musings
Virginia’s Department of Transportation (VDOT) is an all-but-missing entity in Floyd County since the department reorganized and shut down the Hillsville residency office earlier this year and transferred us to the Christiansburg residency. Since the...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 17, 2010 | Featured, Musings
Like an idiot, I believed the “meteorologists” who predicted Monday’s thunderstorms would strike in late afternoon so I rode my motorcycle to my mother’s assisted living facility in Radford to pick up some clothes to take to her at the rehab...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 12, 2010 | Featured, Musings
After a brutal winter that left some Southwestern Virginia school systems closed for an entire month, administrators aren’t taking any chances. Students return to school in Floyd County this morning, joining their counterparts in other counties who started even...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 9, 2010 | Featured, Musings
Lance Terpenny’s controversial move to the Floyd Town Manager’s job after his ouster from a similar post in Christiansburg adds another player to the county’s growing motorcycle mafia — an increasing group of government officials, business...
