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VA Tech Earns National Recognition for Community Engagement

Virginia Tech has been awarded the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, a national recognition highlighting the university’s sustained, institutionwide commitment to building trusted, reciprocal partnerships that address...

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...

VDOT Lifts Lane Closures for Holiday Travel Across Virginia

If you’re headed out to do some last-minute holiday shopping, the Virginia Department of Transportation...

Vinton Race To Be No Contest On Election Day

Jason Peters winds his way past ambulances and emergency personnel in the Vinton Public Safety Building, where the Vinton First Aid Crew that he’s...

40th Annual Blue Ridge Folklife Festival Set for October 26

Highlights include traditional crafts and music, country foods, mule jumping, antique cars and more, plus new music workshops paying homage to old style tunes. Ferrum Colleege...

VA Tech to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of “Skipper”

Fifty years ago, three cadets from the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Class of 1964, Alton “Butch” Harper, Homer “Sonny” Hickam, and George Fox, came together...

Hundreds Parade in Pink for The Cause

October is breast cancer awareness month and  hundreds of people gathered in Roanoke this week to join the fight and make a difference. The annual...

The Harvest Sun

Roanoke Star Photographer Terry Aldhizer set out last week to get a picture of the rising Harvest Moon and found the sky to be...

Opera Roanoke Features Strong Women Leads in 2013-14 Season

The Director of Opera Roanoke, Scott Williamson, made a strong case for the limitless appeal of opera through the centuries to a gathering of...