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Carroll County Annual Music Festival scheduled for July 27
The Arts are well known for lifting one’s spirits. The upcoming Carroll County Annual Music Festival will aid something uplifting... namely the elevator in the Historic Hale-Wilkinson-Carter Home. The festival is scheduled for July 27 from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Hillsville Farmers Market Pavilion Stage located...
Carroll County Month End Deeds of Partition and Conveyance
This is a listing of recent Carroll County Circuit Court’s County Month End Deeds of Partition and Conveyance. The following listings were recorded on June 11 to June 18, 2024 and list record grantor, grantee, consideration (if any) and type, as space allows in this edition of The Carroll News. June 11:Sutphin, Rebeca A to Lauer, Roderick, $151,000, Deed of Bargain and Sale. Bunton, Wayne G to Mason, Eugene, $55,000,...
Thousands head to FloydFest for five days of music at new venue
CHECK, Va. – Thousands of people made their way to Floyd County on Wednesday to attend the highly anticipated FloydFest. The five day long festival returns this year in a new location after being canceled last year. The new venue named, FestivalPark is in Check, Va., a small town...
Customers have power back after outages surrounding Floyd
FLOYD, Va. (WDBJ) - As of Friday afternoon, all Appalachian Power (AEP) customers in the areas surrounding Floyd had their power back after an outage, according to AEP. According to AEP Director of Communications George Porter, about 13,000 customers’ power has been restored since Friday morning. The outage initially...
Sale of Park & Ride lot may free county from PART
County officials may be cautiously optimistic about the prospect of a final exit from the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) following the sale of one of the park and ride lots. Last week Mount Airy agreed to purchase the former park and ride lot at 1334 Carter Street in Mount Airy, attached to the Big Lots shopping center, consisting of more than 200 spaces for a price tag of $145,000, using funds from the state that had previously been allocated to the city. ...
New materials available at Carroll Public Library
The Carroll County Public Library has a number of new books in for patrons to enjoy. Among those are: “Finding God’s Will for Your Life: Discovering the Plans God Has for You,” by Joyce Meyer “Woodworking: The Complete Step-By-Step Manual,” by Alan Bridgewater “How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to...
'Project Vista' still hovering on horizon
There’s still no word from an unnamed local company as to whether it will remain in Mount Airy after being granted a generous incentive package including the donation of 25 acres of land at Westwood Industrial Park. Such an announcement had been anticipated in early July by officials including Surry County Economic Development Partnership (EDP) President/CEO Blake Moyer. “We’re still in the same situation we were a couple of weeks...
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