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Michael Howlett/The Carroll News Michael Henley has been on the job as the Hillsville Police Department's office manager since Feb. 1.
A conversation with …Michael Henley
Name: Michael Henley Family Members: My parents, who live in Hillsville; a sister and her husband, who also live in the Hillsville area; a sister, her husband, and their two children, who live in Mount Airy; and a nephew, his wife, and their two children, who live in Pulaski. Occupation and why you selected it : I am the new office manager at the Hillsville Police Department. My job allows me to combine my business, technology, and e...
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<p>Becky Brendle became Surry County&#8217;s clerk of court on Jan. 1 and is excited about the opportunity to serve local citizens.</p>
Carroll native takes over as Surry County (N.C.) Clerk of Court
DOBSON, N.C. — At first glance, no one would suspect that Carroll County native Rebecca “Becky” Brendle is a hardcore football fan. She is seated for an interview at the Surry County (N.C.) court headquarters in Dobson, where the walls of her tidy office are adorned with tasteful artwork, and a large bookshelf containing law volumes with green covers dominates one side of the room. The institutional-like setting contains no team banners or ...
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The Final Days of Floyd and Claude Allen to be presented April 7
The last of the series of public events scheduled by the 1912 Courthouse Tragedy Centennial Committee will be presented on Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. in the historic Carroll County Courtroom. There is no admission fee and everyone is welcome. On March 28, 1913, Floyd Allen and his son, Claude, died in the electric chair in the Richmond Penitentiary. This, the final act in the sad drama of the Carroll County Courthouse Tragedy, brought to a c...
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Michael Howlett/The Carroll News Students at Carroll County Intermediate School recently got the chance to talk to a park ranger from Denali National Park in Wasillia, Alaska, via Skype.
CCIS students Skype with Alaskan park ranger
Students in Monica Thompson’s eighth-grade English class at Carroll County Intermediate School were treated to a special lesson on Alaska during a Skype uplink with an Alaskan park ranger on Feb. 26. The ranger who spoke to the students was from Denali National Park in Wasillia. Thompson said setting up the Skype connection was easier than she expected. “I basically emailed Denali, we arranged a date and that was it,” said Thompson, who a...
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An automobile accident in January left 38-year old Marty Dalton, pictured on the far right with his daughter Shyann, paralyzed and virtually blind in his right eye. To help Dalton, the Marty Dalton Benefit Lunch and Auction will be held Sunday, April 14 at 11 a.m. at the Grover King VFW Post 1115 building in Hillsville.
April benefit set for Marty Dalton
At the start of 2013, Marty Dalton was like many people in the area. Trying to better himself by going back to school at Surry Community College, the 38-year-old Hillsville man was trying to get back on track after being laid off from his long-time job in textiles. Even though he had lost his insurance, he was taking advantage of a government program to study computers at the North Carolina college. But then on January 11, everything change...
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Carroll will spend $250,000 on security upgrades for schools
To help bolster school safety, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors will fund $250,000 worth of security upgrades in the county’s public school system in Fiscal Year 2013. During the Carroll County Board of Supervisors’ meeting March 11, Fancy Gap District Supervisor Phil McCraw brought up the subject of school safety. He said the budget committees of both the Carroll County Board of Supervisors and Carroll County School Board met on Mar...
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Michael Howlett/The Carroll News Mac McPeak is carrying on a family tradition at The Diner.
A conversation with … Mac McPeak
Name: D. “Mac” McPeak Jr. Family Members: Wife, Valerie Occupation and why you selected it: Born into it. Do you feel you’re preserving local history by continuing to operate The Diner? The Diner hasn’t changed much since 1946, so it’s kind of like it’s still in the 1950s and 60s. What clubs, groups and church do you belong: None Education: Carroll County High School What would you be doing if you weren’t doing what y...
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Afterschool program offers certain some students music lessons free of charge
For the past 10 years, acclaimed Carroll County musician Josh Pickett has helped aspiring musical artists fine tune their dreams with private lessons at his Cana studio. Through a new 21st Century Grant, certain Carroll County Intermediate School students will now have the opportunity to learn music from Pickett free of charge. “It’s basically a grant that will give students the opportunity to learn music that might not otherwise have that ...
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Michael Howlett/The Carroll News Paul Byrd stands with Officer Josh Edwards of the Hillsville Police Department. Byrd is one of the 15 elderly and/or physically impaired citizens who have already joined the department's call-in program.
Hillsville Police Department reaching out to elderly, physically impaired with call-in program
The elderly or anyone with a physical impairment living in the town limits now has friends in high places. In this case, those friends are members of the Hillsville Police Department. The Senior/Physical Impairment Call-In program is designed for senior citizens or persons of any age with a physical impairment, who would benefit from extra attention from the police department. “The sheriff’s office has a similar program, but I want to sta...
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Submitted photo Robbie Ladd (left) of the Hillsville Gun Shop and David Wells, Senior Field Representative of the NRA, display items that will be available April 13 at the Southwest Virginia Friends of NRA's inaugural event in Hillsville. At right, Wells is holding a Kel Tec KSG shotgun, one of the most popular, hard-to-get firearms in the U.S. right now.
Area’s first Friends of NRA chapter forms
For the first time in the history of the Twin Counties, the area has its own chapter of Friends of the NRA, a non-profit spinoff of the National Rifle Association. The local chapter, Southwest Virginia Friends of NRA, will host its inaugural event on Sat., April 13 at the Grover King VFW 1115 in Hillsville. The chapter held its third organizational meeting on Feb. 21 in Hillsville “We’ve met three times to form the committee, which is new...
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Dawn Auction Co. will be selling an Oak Parlor table said to have been made by Sidna Allen at Public Auction on March 16, 2013. The table has a hand written note attached to it with the following: Oak Table bought around 1948 at Sidna Allen sale by Alva McGrady – late husband of Serita Goad McGrady.
Sidna Allen Table??? – you be the judge
Dawn Auction Co. will be selling an Oak Parlor table said to have been made by Sidna Allen at Public Auction on March 16, 2013. The table has a hand written note attached to it with the following: Oak Table bought around 1948 at Sidna Allen sale by Alva McGrady – late husband of Serita Goad McGrady. Records show that Sidna Allen died in 1941 and his wife Bettie Allen died in July of 1948. While we can’t authenticate the table, DeAnn Smith, ...
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HPD makes arrest for stolen vehicle; uses facebook to solve gas drive-off
Thanks to good police work on one case, and the help of facebook on another, the Hillsville Police Department was able to make an arrest for a stolen vehicle and solve a rash of gas drive-offs in Hillsville this past weekend. On March 1, members of the HPD responded to a report of a stolen vehicle from the parking lot at Red Carpet Inn, just off Interstate 77’s Exit 14 in Hillsville. Within a few minutes, Sgt. Robert Martin, Officers Bradle...
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Submitted photo Like most 15-year-old students at Carroll County Intermediate School, Tyler Dobbs would like nothing more than a brand new iPad. But while most of his peers would use the handheld device for games and entertainment, an iPad is critical for Tyler, who is autistic, to communicate to the outside world. Staff members throughout Carroll County Public Schools are trying to help Tyler, the son of Jennifer Dobbs, Library Media Specialist at Hillsville Elementary, obtain a personal iPad through a program called The Puzzling Piece.
School employees hope to help autisic teen receive iPad
Like most 15-year-old students at Carroll County Intermediate School, Tyler Dobbs would like nothing more than a brand new iPad. But while most of his peers would use the handheld device for games and entertainment, an iPad is critical for Tyler, who is autistic, to communicate to the outside world. Staff members throughout Carroll County Public Schools are trying to help Tyler, the son of Jennifer Dobbs, obtain a personal iPad through a pr...
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Michael Howlett/The Carroll News Steve Pottorff, the agrilculture and natural resources agent with the Virginia Cooperative Extension, choose his profession because he wants "to be involved in feeding the world and helping people improve themselves."
A conversation with … Steve Pottorff
Name: Steve Pottorff Family Members: Wife, Vicky Town; dog, Sheldon Occupation and why you selected it: Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent-Virginia Cooperative Extension, Carroll County office. I wanted to work and serve in the same community that I live in. Agriculture is the most important and largest industry in the U.S. I wanted to be involved in feeding the world and wanted to help people better themselves. What clubs, ...
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Hillsville Town Manager Travis Jackson
Town Manager pledges commitment to work closely with county
During his first public interaction with the Carroll County Board of Supervisors, the Town of Hillsville’s new Town Manager pledged his commitment to work closely with the county. Travis Jackson, who took over as the Town of Hillsville’s Town Manager on Feb. 1, spoke to supervisors during their Feb. 11 meeting. Jackson is no stranger to the board as he worked with the county on numerous occasions as the former Executive Director of federal ...
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Velma Horton served the children of Carroll County for over 37 years, both as a teacher and as a guidance counselor.
Horton to be remembered through scholarship
When Velma Horton passed away on Jan. 21 she left many friends and loved ones searching for a way to show their appreciation for her over 37 years of service as a Carroll County educator. That desire has materialized in the Velma B. Horton Memorial Scholarship. The idea of honoring Horton with a scholarship in her name came about during a discussion between two of her closest friends, Yvonne Jessup and Helen Melton, following Horton’s funer...
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Cana man sentenced to five years on felony firearm charge
A 31-year-old Cana man has been sentenced to serve five years in prison after being found guilty of possession of a firearm by a violent convicted felon. Glen McMillian, of Cana, was found guilty of the charge Thursday after a jury trial in Carroll County Circuit Court. The jury recommended a five-year sentence, which Judge Robert Turk upheld, said Michael Jones, Chief Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney for Carroll County. While it is rare for ...
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Carroll County students celebrate with the Carroll County boys' basketball team Saturday, moments after they defeated Salem 66-48 in Hillsville in the Region IV, Division 4 championship game. Thanks to an anonymous donor, a bus load of students will be transported to the March 2 Group AA Quarterfinal at the Salem Civic Center with their tickets to the game already paid for.
Carroll students to get free rides, tickets to state quarters
Thanks to an anonymous donor, many Carroll County High School students will be able to travel to and take in the Cavaliers’ Group AA state quarterfinal on Saturday at the Salem Civic Center free of charge. On Wednesday, CCHS Principal Chuck Thompson got a call from a person he would not name who donated enough money to send a bus full of kids to the state quarterfinal with the $10 ticket charge already paid for. The Cavaliers will take on E...
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Joe Mabry
Mabry being remembered by MS group
When the Blue Ridge Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society holds its fundraising walk on April 28, it will have special meaning. Not only does the group want to raise money and awareness for multiple sclerosis, it will be honoring a special young man. Joe Mabry passed away on Aug. 11, 2012, at the University of Virginia Medical Center from complications of a congenital heart disease, but even during the last three years of his lif...
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Future Farmers of America cattle sale set for March 9
TOAST, N.C. - North Surry High School’s annual Destination FFA Cattle Sale is an almost perfect backdrop of solutions and issues facing farming — coming at a time when many farmers are aging out of the profession and interest in local produce and livestock is on the rise. On one level the sale is a crucial fundraiser for the program at the school. It is scheduled for March 9 at noon at the Mount Airy Stockyards. The registered and commerc...
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Allen Worrell/The Carroll News Carroll County's boys' basketball team celebrates after winning the Region IV, Division 4 Championship in Hillsville on Saturday. The Cavaliers beat Salem 66-48 for the program's first regional championship since 1980. The Cavs open the Group AA State Tournament against E.C. Glass on Sat., March 2 at the Salem Civic Center. Turn to page B-1 for full coverage of the regional tournament and the upcoming state tournament and go to The Carroll News' facebook page for an album full of pictures from the celebration.
REGION IV CHAMPIONS!!!
Carroll County’s boys’ basketball team celebrates after winning the Region IV, Division 4 Championship in Hillsville on Saturday. The Cavaliers beat Salem 66-48 for the program’s first regional championship since 1980. The Cavs open the Group AA State Tournament against E.C. Glass on Sat., March 2 at the Salem Civic Center. Turn to page B-1 for full coverage of the regional tournament and the upcoming state tournament and go to The Carroll Ne...
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Sarah Alderman meets her hero, Ernie Brown, Jr., aka Turtle Man, in Kentucky on Feb. 10.
Local girl meets her hero, Turtle Man
Brandon, Cindy, Sarah and Brad Alderman of Hillsville traveled to Lebanon, KY. for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Marion County Heritage Center on Feb. 10. It is now a museum on the history of Marion County. But the reason for the trip was to meet Ernie Brown, Jr., aka Turtle Man! Turtle Man is Sarah’s hero! She never misses Call of the Wildman on Animal Planet. The trip was 363 miles and the family arrived at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning....
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Carroll delves deeper into back taxes
After crunching numbers and getting partial lists of delinquent taxes, Carroll County officials say they will go after $4 million in back taxes owed to the locality. During the January meeting of the Carroll County Board of Supervisors, county officials stated they believed the county was owed $10 million in delinquent taxes. After getting more accurate numbers, Supervisor Sam Dickson said the county still should go after what it’s lawfully...
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Staff photo by Allen Worrell Carroll County school buses will now be allowed to travel south down Fancy Gap Mountain on U.S. 52 beginning this fall.
Carroll officials praise decision to allow buses to travel south on U.S. 52
During its Feb. 11 meeting, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors praised Delegate Annie B. Crockett-Stark and Supervisor Phil McCraw for their efforts in getting a measure approved that will allow school buses to travel south on U.S. 52. Stark recently worked with the Virginia Department of Transportation on House Bill 1416, which she introduced, that would have allowed school buses to travel south on U.S. 52 down Fancy Gap Mountain. In ...
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