Feel like you are seeing more new faces in town lately? You are not imagining it: as the Blue Ridge Parkway celebrates its 75^th anniversary in 2010, and awareness of the musical treasures along the Crooked Road increases, more people are finding their way to Floyd. This is only to be expected because, as Joe Tennis puts it in his article “On the Crooked Road,” …attractions along either route seem to lure folks to the funkiness of Floyd.”

Click on the link to read his full story…

Floyd is fortunate to be home to Blue Mountain Organics, a fast growing, and innovative company which offers a wide variety of organic raw foods.  Owner Jared Mizahi’s energy and commitment to provide great taste and great nutrition is highlighted in a story by Lindsey Nair which appeared in the June 2, 2010 issue of the The Roanoke Times.

Here at the LCF Group we consider ourselves fortunate that our respective commutes to work require only a brief jaunt down Route 8 or Route 221 before reaching our office destination near “THE” Floyd County stoplight in downtown Floyd.

Unfortunately, for the majority of Floydians much farther distances, longer periods, and a multitude of traffic lights are endured as they travel to work in Blacksburg, Christiansburg or Roanoke. But such is the fate for those who choose to live in a rural area: resign to seeking employment elsewhere-Right?

Not necessarily! ... Click to read the story, and  then check out the video at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/vtoutreachvideo#p/a/f/1/NxKWFwLaJfk

By Wanda Combs, Editor

The Floyd Press, Thursday, July 8, 2010       
 

“It’s an economical way to use the sun to do every day cooking and baking,” Amber Bailey said as she put the oven on the ground.

Amber and husband Tommy, vendors for Sun Oven International, believe their product sells itself. The oven relies on the sun, so if there’s no sun, there’s no baking, but Amber pointed out, it doesn’t have to be warm outside. One of her favorite pictures of the oven in use shows it out in the snow in the winter.

By David Larsen-KK4WW

All hobbies, products, reoccurring events and topics of great interest generate magazines or newsletters. Now with the world wide web the shift is to forums and blogs online. During the late 70’s and 80’s dozens of computer magazines were published, however most had a very short life – just like most of the early microcomputers. First was the simple newsletters and a few of them became successful magazine publications. Most likely the first real microcomputer magazine was “Byte” and interestingly it lasted through all the publishing wars and is still a popular computer magazine.