Archive for March, 2010

Roaring Run and North Creek are about ready to get an influx of fingerling trout thanks to literally dozens of students in Botetourt County and the Roanoke Valley. The students, as part of the Roanoke Chapter of Trout Unlimited’s “Trout in the Classroom” program, are helping release the fingerlings beginning this week and through... »

NEW CASTLE – Fourth-grade students at McCleary Elementary are asking the Craig County community to help with their drive to collect new, donated teddy bears to send to children impacted by the recent earthquakes of Haiti and Chile. After discussions about the earthquakes during Pamela Cundiff’s class, students decided they would like to help... »

Lord Botetourt High School is holding its 50th Anniversary Open House Saturday, May 22 from 1- 4 p.m. The event will celebrate 50 years of academic excellence with tours of the school’s facilities and displays of five decades of school pictures and school memorabilia. A program will be held at 2 p.m. in the... »

When the Botetourt School Board started its annual budget-making process back in the winter, the school administration thought the board might lose as much as $2.5 million in state funding because of the budget shortfall the Commonwealth was expecting. Make that number $4 million—that’s how much the School Board cut from its current budget... »

ROANOKE CO.- The pilot and a passenger of a small private plane were apparently seriously injured after the plane crashed into a corner of the UPS Freight terminal near the Roanoke Regional Airport shortly before 1 p.m. today and burst into flames. People on the ground reported UPS employees were uninjured. Before the crash... »

The Radford High School Bobcat baseball team opened the 2010 season March 18 with a victory over the Fort Chiswell Pioneers 15-12 at Radford Municipal Baseball Field. The youthful Cats overcame an early game 8-3 deficit and scrapped enough to rally for a late inning win. The Bobcats took a 3-0 first inning advantage... »

Senior guard Caitlyn Long of Roanoke College was named to the 2009-10 D3Hoops.com All-South Region third-team last week. Long, a local product from Cave Spring High School, led the Maroons as a tri-captain to a 24-4 record and the ODAC regular season title. She led her squad in three-pointers made (55), percentage (37.9%) and... »

The William Byrd soccer team bounced back from a loss to Hidden Valley by beating a strong Cave Spring team at Patterson Stadium Monday night. Byrd scored a first half goal and made it stand up for a 1-0 win. The Terriers had lost at Hidden Valley last Friday, 4-0, to a talented Titans... »

The Lord Botetourt baseball team will play host to Brookville today in a non-district game. The Cavaliers came from behind for the second time to beat James River Tuesday evening, 15-9. The Cavs trailed until the fifth when they went up for good. Robert Patton was 4-4 at the plate and accounted for four... »

At their March 25 meeting, the Roanoke County School Board approved a budget of $128,821,750 for the 2010-2011 school year, a reduction of seven-percent from the 2009-2010 budget. State funding to Roanoke County Public Schools was reduced by $12.2 million (including $2.1 million of stimulus funding).  However, the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors helped... »