Joomla! site syndication http://www.floydcounty.com/cont Sat, 17 May 2008 12:24:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.floydcounty.com/cont/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.floydcounty.com/cont Joomla! site syndication http://www.floydcounty.com/cont/content/view/14/2/ If you want to start a debate on what's right, or wrong, with Floyd nowadays just mention Woody Crenshaw's name. The 59-year-old entrepreneur is often a catalyst for arguments on both sides of the issue. No one can, or should, argue that Crenshaw (above) hasn't put his money where his mouth is when it comes to change in Floyd. He has poured thousands of dollars into renovation of the Country Store (http://www,floydcountrystore.com/), reopened it as a daily store and lunch stop, and ramped up not only the Friday Night Jamboree but other weekend music offerings at the venue. News - Latest Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:44:26 +0100 http://www.floydcounty.com/cont/content/view/8/2/ Tales of woe about fallen trees, power outages, roofs ripped off by high winds and the trauma of the Virginia Tech shootings helped two Floyd County residents avoid punishment in Circuit Court Tuesday for failing to appear for jury duty last month.Judge Ray W. Grubbs gave a pass to both Frank A. Vest and Lester F. Gillespie after they told similar stories on hardship as reasons for not showing up for jury duty on April 17. Your honor it was just a bad day, Vest told Grubbs. I got up that morning to find that the wind has torn away part of a roof. Then the power went out. So I just went back to bed. A few minutes later, Gillespie told the court he awoke to find three trees down across his driveway, forcing him to get out his chain saw to clear the way. News - Latest Sat, 08 May 2004 11:54:06 +0100 http://www.floydcounty.com/cont/content/view/7/2/ The annual audit of Floyd County's governmental operations found significant accounting irregularities and multiple reportable problems in the administrative departments charged with overseeing other county agencies and monitoring their accounting performances, supervisors learned last week. I hate to end our long relationship on such a note but there is bad news, Deanna Cox of the auditing firm of Farmer, Cox Associates told the board at their March monthly meeting. Supervisors voted last year to change auditors after many years of using Cox's firm. News - Latest Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:54:06 +0100 http://www.floydcounty.com/cont/content/view/6/2/ The long-running feud between property owners of Floyd County's only gated community went before a Circuit Court grand jury last week and it took a panel of four men and three women less than two hours to acquit Chris Koumparakis on two charges of trespass.After a two-day trial in which each side accused the other of bias and the judge had to warn spectators to keep quiet and stop snickering, the jury's verdict came swiftly to cap the latest chapter in the long-running battle that has brought Floyd County deputies several times to the Park Ridge residential development in the northeastern edge of the county and resulted in court cases in three counties.The verdict was also the second defeat at the hands of a jury in less than a week for Commonwealth's Attorney Gordon Hannett. Six days earlier, another jury acquitted a Floyd man on 140 counts of sexual misconduct after a two day trial. Jury trials are rare in Floyd County Court. Only three have been held in the last four years. News - Latest Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:54:06 +0100 http://www.floydcounty.com/cont/content/view/12/2/ After a rare two-day trial that lasted into the evening hours of Thursday night, a Floyd County Circuit Court jury of seven women and five men needed just an hour and a half to acquit 41-year-old Stanley Ernest Hinckley of 140 counts of sexual molestation of an underage girl.As Hinckley's accuser sobbed in open court, the jury returned not guilty verdicts on charges that included 49 counts of rape, 49 counts of animate sexual penetration, 21 counts of forcible sodomy and 21 counts of taking indecent liberties with a child.The verdict followed two days of often-contentious legal wrangling between Commonwealth's Attorney Gordon Hannett and defense counsel Bev Davis of Radford and a rebuke of Hannett in open court by Circuit Judge Ray W. Grubbs. News - Latest Sat, 12 May 2007 14:28:05 +0100