Arts / Events Etc.
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...
Fred First Returns with Second “Slow Road Home”
Fred First writes like he speaks: laid back, thoughtful and thought provoking. In recent years, the Floyd County resident has penned columns for the...
PR advice – from a Former “Revenuer”
Jack Allen Powell made his living an agent ATF agent – a “revenuer,” as they used to say, often tracking down local moonshiners....
Local Author Introduces Second Book, “Gray Baby”
Teenaged Clifton Carlson lives between two worlds as a bi-racial child. Years earlier he witnessed his African-American father being brutalized and killed by two...
Roanoke’s Bike Culture to be Focus at New CarLess Brit Museum
River Laker has turned selling his old Volvo station wagon into the “CarLess Brit” franchise over the past six months – all because...
51st Sidewalk Art Show Draws Thousands
Downtown Roanoke’s 51st Annual Sidewalk Art Show drew thousands of visitors to the streets surrounding the Market building last weekend, with 160 artists...
RSO’s Rock Symphony Cirque Serves Up Extraordinary Evening
Admittedly, I was not well-rested for last weekend’s Roanoke Symphony Orchestra performance. After mowing and planting and weeding and mulching and chopping and...