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Air Force cancels Roanoke-area jazz concert due to budget cuts

ROANOKE COUNTY – The free concert by the Air Force Jazz Ensemble has been cancelled, due to federal budget cuts related to the “sequester.” The concert was scheduled for Sunday, March 17, at Cave Spring High School. The local cancellation was announced March 7, by Wendi Schultz, who is Roanoke County Parks & Recreation’s... »

Jacked Up for Jackson raises money for boy with seizures

SALEM – Five-year-old Jackson Nelson took time out from chasing after sisters Hannah and Haylee to get up close to the big, blue Baja Claws truck parked behind his granddaddy’s house. “See my car?” he asked, as he held out a toy and compared it to the 46-inch-high 1976 Ford that Dustin Seacrist brought.... »

Craig residents pleased to recognize local scenes in film

Opal Caldwell, her sister and sister-in-law were pleased to see the old Bradley farm larger than life and spread across the screen at the Grandin Theatre last week. Part of the independent film, “Blue Ridge,” was made on her family’s home place, as she proudly pointed out. The ladies and other Craig County residents... »

Movie made in Craig will be in theater next week

NEW CASTLE – A film made in Craig County is hitting the big screen in Roanoke next week. ”Blue Ridge” will be shown at the Grandin Theatre in Grandin Village on Thursday, June 14. Writer and director Vincent Sweeney, who filmed it in 2008 in what looked like an abandoned mobile home park near New... »

Thai student determined to help run orphanage

SALEM – Four years ago, Satian Preamjaisanchat – who goes by the American name of David – first came to the Roanoke Valley as a foreign exchange student when he was in high school.     Now he has returned, this time to fulfill his dream of attending college in the United States. His... »

Cigarette-caused apartment fire displaces 18

CAVE SPRING – A roaring fire that displaced 18 residents and their pets and damaged or destroyed a dozen apartments April 3 at Cedar Point Apartments in Cave Spring started from a discarded cigarette, fire officials determined. Career and volunteer firefighters from Cave Spring, Back Creek, Clearbrook and Vinton stations responded to the fire,... »

Construction work begins on Glenvar Library

GLENVAR – Three months after the sign showing what the Glenvar Branch Library will look like, construction began in earnest last week. Soon footers will be poured for the building that will be built on the same site as the 1979 branch library, and which will replace it – big time. Literally. The library... »

Service club members read to hundreds of kids in valley

ROANOKE VALLEY – All over the valley, adults put on funny hats, bright blue hair, duck feet and tried to wrap their tongues around such unfamiliar words and rhyming nonsense phrases as “yuzz-a-ma-tuzz” and “humpf-humpf-a-dumpfer.” More than 125 adults and teen members of area service clubs sat in kid-size seats and rocking chairs, reading... »

Dream Team presents Disney World trip for woman fighting cancer

SALEM – If anybody asked Angela Akers what she would be doing this week while on a break from her latest round of chemotherapy, she would say, “I’m going to Disney World!” The free trip arranged by the Dream Foundation is a bright light for the 40-year-old Salem resident who is fighting a rare... »

Spartan boys second in big meet, Kennedy wins 100 Fly for GHS

SALEM – The Salem and Glenvar High swim teams were among 16 schools competing in the All-Timesland Meet at the Gator Center in Roanoke last Saturday. Salem’s boys were second overall in the meet with 332 points, trailing only Hidden Valley, who had 388. The Salem girls were sixth with 127 points, and host... »