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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 the role of the Greenway Coordinator, which assists localities with the planning, expansion, and...

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...

Virginia Credit Union, Member One Donate $15K to Roanoke, Lynchburg Youth Programs

Virginia Credit Union and its Member One division recently donated $15,000 to two community organizations...

Carilion Clinic Children’s Hospital Unveils Mobile Intensive Care Unit

by Bill Turner Heads will be turning in southwest Virginia this fall as the new Carilion Clinic Children’s Hospital (CCCH) mobile Intensive Care Unit...

Author Phillip Yancey Speaks in Roanoke

Over one hundred and twenty five people, including 90 pastors representing  a variety of denominations came  to hear award winning evangelical Christian author,...

Literacy Organization Sets Roanoke “Spelling Bee World Series”

Can you spell “cat”?  What about “dockwalloper”?  Or “meerschaum”? Whether or not you can, Literacy Volunteers of Roanoke Valley wants you to join in...

Help For Addiction

by Paula Byron C.W. started getting high when he was only 13. “I started off sniffing gasoline out of a lawn mower, then moved...

Roanoke Officials and Citizens Get a Whiff of Urban Chicken Farming

by Valerie Garner What to do with the Countryside golf course that Roanoke City purchased for $4.1 million in 2005 ... The conundrum has...

This One’s For The Dogs

by Beverly Amsler It was a dog-gone good day.  Canines and their human companions gave the new Salem Rotary Dog Park two paws up...