Police asking for friends’ help in finding missing 12-year-old
ROANOKE COUNTY – Police are asking friends of 12-year-old Brittany Smith for help in finding the missing Glenvar girl whose mother was found murdered in their home yesterday. Roanoke County police said...
View ArticleCommunity appalled by mother’s murder, missing daughter
Did she leave voluntarily or was she abducted by the boyfriend of her mother who apparently was murdered in their home? That’s the question some people are asking each other after seeing surveillance...
View ArticleMcCrumb gears up for ‘Tom Dooley’ book tour
CATAWBA – Novelist Sharyn McCrumb is making sure to get as many locally grown tomatoes as she can right now at the Catawba Valley Farmers’ Market, before she leaves for a month-long tour to promote her...
View Article$16,000 raised for burned boys
GLENVAR – What looked like an ordinary yard sale was really a community rallying to help two badly burned boys. The giant yard sale at the Fort Lewis Fire Department in Glenvar on Sept. 17 was a way of...
View ArticleAdvice to graduates: Choose people
The strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” for graduates to process into the auditorium were still echoing when the celebrating began at a recent commencement ceremony. There was a little pomp and lots of...
View ArticleSalem resident speaks in North Carolina about Link
SALEM – Salem resident Bill Arnold has been making the rounds giving talks about O. Winston Link and showing slides made by the famed photographer. He did three talks in three weeks about Link’s work...
View Article‘The music goes zoom-zoom…’
Just anybody under 80 can probably sing at least part of the Valleydale pigs song. “The music goes zoom-zoom. The drummer goes boom-boom, and everybody shouts, ‘Hoo-ray for Valleydale. Hoo-ray for...
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