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Roanoke City Engineering Teacher Honored With Nation’s Highest STEM Teaching Award
Raymond Cotter, an engineering teacher at the RCPS Charles W. Day Technical Education Center (DAYTEC), has been named by President Joe Biden as a recipient of the prestigious Presidential...
VA Passenger Rail Authority Selects Construction Partner for Long Bridge-South Package
The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) has announced the selection of the Long Bridge Rail...
New River Battalion Tops National Ranking for Second Year
For the second year in a row, the New River Battalion has been named the nation’s top...
Roanoke Star To Be Acquired By Paradise Media
Some time in the next couple of days as final documents are signed and files...
Fralin Institute: Words Activate Hidden Brain Processes Shaping Emotions, Decisions and Behavior
In an unprecedented new study in the journal Cell Reports, researchers have shown neurotransmitters in the...
None “Got Away” at Big Pine Trout Farm
The Big Pine Trout Farm of New Castle hosted a group of special needs children from the Mental Health America of Roanoke Valley organization...
Silver Tears Campers Born in Roanoke
Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, you run across something unique, original, and by some estimation, extraordinary.In fact, a warning to the...
Still No Secretary for Bowers; Miller recognized
Despite his protest that “the mayor needs a secretary,” David Bowers didn’t get his way Monday night, when city council voted down his...
Cleaveland Touts Getting Back to the Fundamentals
The Botetourt lawyer says one of the reasons he wanted the Republican nomination for the 17th District House of Delegates seat was that “the...
West End Center Gets Makeover
Approaching a 30th anniversary celebration in September, the West End Center on Patterson Avenue in Roanoke received an overdue facelift last weekend. Roanoke County...
No Decision on Fate of Fleming Administrators
The Roanoke City School Board met with Superintendent Dr. Rita Bishop and the school division attorney Monday in a closed meeting, where ramifications of...