By Staff Writer
ROANOKE - Multi-tasking is something women were simply born to do. It is something at which Charlotte Moore is very good. Moore is not only on the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors, but she is also a realtor, owner of the landscaping company Dream Scapes, as well as a single mother to two now-grown children,...
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By Gwen Johnson
NEW CASTLE – Craig County Supervisors Helen Looney and Jennifer Durling were recognized for their service to the county while on the Board of Supervisors.
Helen Looney who represents the Upper Craigs Creek District was elected to the Board in November 2003 and began serving her first term January 1, 2004. She chose not...
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By Staff Writer
CRAIG COUNTY – In next week’s Nov. 8 election, Craig County voters have the opportunity to choose new members of the board of supervisors or to re-elect current ones in two districts, as well as a choice between an incumbent Republican and a Democratic challenger in the Virginia House of Delegates race.
Voters in specific...
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By David J. Bisset
CHRISTIANSBURG — There’s a building in downtown Christiansburg that could be celebrating its 100 year old birthday in 2012.
The old Clerk’s Office, which is on the Virginia Landmark Register and in the National Register of Historic Places, will be 100 years old in a few short months, but its fate for...
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By Edwin McCoy
Supervisor Larry Ceola agreed he would support a 2 percent pay raise for Botetourt County employees after a two-hour budget committee meeting Wednesday morning in Fincastle.
His decision followed another lengthy budget discussion, this time with the two other budget committee members, Terry Austin and Steve Clinton.
Austin and Clinton are long-time budget committee members who...
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By Meg Hibbert
GLENVAR – Western Roanoke County will have a welcoming gateway by the time the U.S. 460-11 widening project is completed in about 1-1/2 years.
That’s what Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Chairman Butch Church is looking forward to. Church voiced those sentiments at the official groundbreaking for the project Nov. 17, held in front of...
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By Staff Writer
The burning ban in Botetourt County has been lifted thanks to nearly three days of rain that dropped from 1.5 to 5.5 inches of rain on the county.
The Board of Supervisors voted to lift the ban at its Tuesday afternoon meeting, right after affirming the ban that went into place nearly two weeks ago.
Assistant...
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By Edwin McCoy
BOTETOURT – The 198-foot meteorological data collection tower on North Mountain will stay up if the Botetourt Board of Supervisors follows the recommendation from the Planning Commission.
But that doesn’t mean the planners would endorse allowing wind turbines or a wind farm on the mountain that is northeast of Eagle Rock and also runs into...
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Larry Ceola is the Botetourt County Republican Party Committee nominee and will be on the ballot in the November special election for the Fincastle District Board of Supervisors’ seat.
The special election will be held to fill the position vacated by the death of Don Meredith.
Ceola and his wife Terry raised two sons and his...
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By Edwin McCoy
Botetourt’s libraries have traded getting some new books, periodicals and DVDs in order to maintain some of the evening hours the Library Trustees thought were going to be cut because of budget challenges in the coming fiscal year that starts July 1.
The budget for the Blue Ridge, Buchanan, Fincastle and Eagle Rock libraries was...
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