New Media from a Journalism Veteran
A wider view of The Friday Night Jamboree
Experimented Friday night with the GoPro HD Hero2, a video camera designed primarily for action video from tight spots, like the handlebars of a motorcycle, rollbar of a race car, etc. I’ve used the original GoPro for the last couple of years and while it shot acceptable video, it lacked detail and was not good [...]
When I’m 64
When I get older losing my hair, Many years from now, Will you still be sending me a valentine Birthday greetings bottle of wine? If I’d been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door, Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I’m sixty-four? The Beatles released “When I’m [...]
Christmas Times a-Coming
A little something for the Christmas season. Abe Goorsky, Scott Patrick and the cast of the Floyd Radio Show offer an excellent cover of Tex Logan’s “Christmas Times a-Coming” at the close of the December show’s Internet radiocast.
Thirty-two years
Times does, indeed, fly when you’re having fun. Today is the 32nd anniversary of that day back in 1979 when Amy and I stood before a minister in his living room in Alton, Illinois, and — with his wife, two children and two pets as witnesses — promised to love, honor and cherish each other [...]
No wind turbine farms in Floyd County?
If the proposed ordinance scheduled for a public hearing at Floyd County High School on Jan. 31, 2012, stands, proposed wind generator farms for Floyd County will never be built. The Floyd County board of supervisors, in a 3-0 vote — with two of the five supervisors abstaining — gave preliminary approval Tuesday to an [...]
The misinformation super highway
The dangers of pulling misinformation off the Internet and using it in a public venue surfaced Tuesday at the regular monthly meeting of the Floyd County Board of Supervisors. A county resident who spoke during the public comment period presented the supervisors with a printout from a web site that she said proved that the [...]
No game for sissies
Anyone who follows Floyd County High School girls’ basketball knows this is no place for sissies when the Lady Buffs take the court. The varsity girls’ team took two victories in their holiday tournament last week, beating Patrick County 76-46 on Tuesday and Bassett 64-33 on Thursday. Full story and more photos in Thursday’s Floyd [...]
Grubb lands on his feet with Joe Gibbs Racing
After leading an ungrateful Tony Stewart to a NASCAR Sprint Cup championship — and getting fired for his efforts — Floyd County’s Darian Grubb landed a crew chief gig with Joe Gibbs Racing and will helm Virginian Denny Hamlin‘s efforts next season. Grubb replaced Mike Ford as crew chief of the #11 FedEx Toyota. Stewart [...]
A ‘quiet, typical college student’ who kills a cop?
If you can believe those giving interviews to reporters about Ross Truett Ashley, the 22-year-old parttime Radford University student who gunned down a Virginia Tech police officer Thursday before blowing his own brains out, the murdering young man was just a “quiet, typical college student.” Yet this typical, quiet college student — who made the [...]
Death comes once again to Virginia Tech
Violence and death came to star-crossed Virginia Tech Thursday when a gunman shot and killed a university police officer and then fled to the campus Duck Pond to turn his weapon on himself. Tech officials moved quickly to lock down the sprawling campus in Blacksburg as officers from surrounding police jurisdictions descended and began the [...]