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VA Student Win Big in International Competition While Helping NASA Return to Moon
Two teams of Virginia high school students topped more than 600 teams to take home top international prizes in a competition to grow crops in lunar soil simulant.The students...
Blue Ridge Music Festival Presents Mozart & Haydn in The Mountains
Join David Stewart Wiley, Conductor and Festival Virtuosi Orchestra with guest soloists on period natural...
Miss America, Madison Marsh, Will Be Honored Guest at 2024 Miss Virginia Pageant
The Miss Virginia Opportunity, Inc., is honored to announce that Madison Marsh, Miss America 2024,...
SML Antique and Classic Boat Society To Hold Annual Spring Boat Show Saturday June 8th
The SML Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society will hold their annual Spring...
Battle of New Market 160th Anniversary Commemoration Event
160th Commemoration of the Battle of New Market, May 18th-19th, 2024. Join the Virginia Museum...
Roanoke College Alumni Release Books
Two Roanoke College alumni have recently released books while another Roanoke alumni is in the process of publishing a memoir.
Corbin M. Wright, a...
Sinking Creek Releases First CD
Several Roanoke area musicians have teamed up to form Sinking Creek, recently releasing their first CD, “Fast Asleep.” Songwriter-acoustic guitarist Lance Smith, bassist Jake...
2009 Kendig Awards
The latest Perry F. Kendig Award ceremony “Bravos and Brushstrokes,” was held at the Taubman Museum of Art last Wednesday. Nine individuals or businesses...
Roanoker Pens a “Revolutionary” Ghost Story
Roanoker Walt Mayes, a retired counselor for the Virginia Department of Corrections, recently released his first novel, “Hungate’s Ghost,” set in the 1770’s. Peter...
It’s No Bull… Local Production is Going Overseas
Local puppeteer Philip Hatter of Thistledown Puppets and local teacher/author Alex Lucas are making waves in the Mediterranean this summer with their recently produced...
Emerging Artists Features the Music of Argentina
Ada Lis Jimena, mezzo soprano, and Kerry Morgiewicz, pianist, showcased a variety of musical styles and composers Monday night at the latest edition of...