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Laura Carini Confirmed as Roanoke City Attorney

Following an extensive national search, the City of Roanoke has appointed Laura M. Carini to the role of City Attorney, effective March 1, 2026. Ms. Carini, who joined the Roanoke...

VA Tech Earns National Recognition for Community Engagement

Virginia Tech has been awarded the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, a national...

Roanoke Valley Greenway Coordinator Finds New Home at Regional Commission

The Roanoke Valley Greenway Commission and the Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission are pleased to announce that...

Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Selects New Chair

During their organizational meeting yesterday, the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors selected Tammy E. Shepherd...

Cancer Prevention: Can Future-Focused Thinking Help Smokers Quit?

As the warning label on every pack of cigarettes tells us, smoking is harmful. It’s...

Roanoke City News and Notes

Roanoke to Bristol Train? most know that by 2017 – 2016 if the Mayor has his way – there will be Amtrak passenger train...

Don’t Shut Out Ex-Felons – Ban The Box Says VA Cares

They did the crime and then did their time – so don’t let a past felony conviction and the associated stigma deny them reentry...

Sharing The Road Cuts Both Ways Says Bike Instructor

As of July 1 a new law, passed by the General Assembly last spring and signed into law by Governor Terry McAuliffe, means that...

Roanoke Children Study Programming Between Swimming and Tennis lessons

At Apple Ridge Farm's 26th annual Academic Summer Camp being offered at the organization's camp site, on a forested mountainside in Copper Hill, approximately...

Landmark Agriculture Bill Now Law in Virginia

New law reaffirms the right to farm and grants freedom from government overreach The bill, HB 268, becomes law in Virginia on Weds July 2nd 2014...

Roanoke County Fire & Rescue Promotes Ten Officers

Roanoke County Fire & Rescue Department held a Promotion Ceremony on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at 4 p.m. to promote ten personnel to officer...