By Staff Writer
ROANOKE - In today’s economy most 23 year olds are lucky if they have their first full-time job in their field after graduating from college.
In this regard, Rachel and Luke Higginbotham have perhaps proved that age-old saying that “two heads are better than one” – the twins, originally from Buchanan, just opened the new coffee...
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By Edwin McCoy
BOTETOURT – The Botetourt Resource Center (BRC) needs your help again.
In what’s become an annual effort, the center– which assists dozens of senior citizens and struggling families– needs funds to remain open beyond November of this year.
Right now, Director Robyn Dobyns said the center has enough money to remain open into the fall, but...
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By Edwin McCoy
Spring is bursting out all over the Town of Buchanan, just in time for Friday’s annual Arbor Day Celebration.
The hundreds of cherry trees in town are in full blossom and will provide the backdrop for the tree plantings that mark the annual Arbor Day.
The fifth annual Arbor Day Celebration will be held on the...
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By Edwin McCoy
Things really came together this year to mark Buchanan’s 16th Mountain Magic In Fall Festival, according to Town Revitalization Manager Harry Gleason.
The weather was perfect for the 130 vendors who set up on Main Street and the thousands of festival visitors who kept the downtown filled most of the day. Those visitors had the...
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By Edwin McCoy
On Saturday, for the 16th consecutive year, Buchanan’s downtown will be busy with the Mountain Magic In Fall Bluegrass, Antiques and Crafts Festival.
The October street festival has been a staple in the town’s revitalization efforts that started in the mid-1990s; and now it’s perhaps the largest single-day event in the county.
The festival runs from...
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By Edwin McCoy
BUCHANAN – If anything, Tom Middlecamp was able to breathe a sigh of relief Friday afternoon.
No, the Town of Buchanan’s war on cryptosporidium is not over, but that’s only because the final financial arrangements for fighting the war are left to be figuratively signed, and with it the peace treaty.
But, town water customers were...
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By Staff Writer
BUCHANAN – Downtown Buchanan will be alive with activity Friday evening during the eighth annual An Evening In Buchanan.
The public is invited to the affair that will include an antique auto show and the monthly Second Fridays Cruise-In, music from the ‘50s with DJ Randy Riddle, the barbershop quartet Four For You strolling the...
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By Edwin McCoy
TMDL.
WQIP.
BMPs.
319 Non-point Source Management Program.
Impaired Waters.
They are the acronyms and terminology that mean many homeowners in the Looney Creek Watershed are eligible for cost-share funds to have their septic tanks pumped or their failing septic systems repaired or replaced.
The funding that will pay 50 percent of the cost of having a septic tank pumped,...
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By Edwin McCoy
Buchanan Theater will show the new documentary about Union Gen. David Hunter’s raid through the Valley of Virginia and Lynchburg Friday and Saturday, July 23 and 24.
The 45-minute film is titled “Hunter’s Raid—Battle for Lynchburg.” It premiered this spring in Lynchburg.
The Town Buchanan became a player in Hunter’s Raid in the late spring of...
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By Edwin McCoy
BUCHANAN – “Hopefully, by the end of the month, the boil water notice will be behind us,” Hal Bailey told Buchanan Town Council Monday night.
The anticipated good news was part of a brief update he gave council on the new micro-filtration water plant the town is building.
Bailey, who is with Engineering Concepts Inc. in...
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