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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...

Watching the Calories? Don’t Forget The Drinks

Liquid calories are the ones most of us never consider but the ones that may contribute to major health problems. According to their...

Roanoke Meetings To Help Gather Input for Outdoors Plan

Planners with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation will hold two public meetings on March 8 in Roanoke to gather regional input...

Nobel Laureate To Speak At Virginia Tech On The Mysteries Of The Flow Of Time

Sir Anthony Leggett, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and MacArthur Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, will present a public lecture...

Literacy To Hold Seventh Annual Scrabble Tourney

Blue Ridge Literacy (Formerly Literacy Volunteers) will hold its seventh annual Scrabble Tournament on Thursday, March 22. This year for the first time...

Jefferson Center Shows Off Their New Roof

by Valerie Garner The Jefferson Center’s leaky roof leaks no more. Wednesday Executive Director Cyrus Pace gave a tour of the completed roof. The...

Finding Solid Ground: Growers Academy Helps Roanoke’s Somali Bantu Refugees

by Andrea Brunais Roanoke’s Somali Bantu community, less than 150 strong, has a few strikes against it. The majority lack English skills, and few...