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Local residents celebrate Year of the Dragon

SALEM – A silk “lion” wove and danced its way through a throng of happy college students, adults and children in the Wortmann Ballroom at Roanoke College. The traditional Lion Dance performed by Chris Spoon and Johnny Hsu from the Shaolin Martial Arts Academy in Roanoke marked the conclusion of the Lunar New Year Celebration... »

My mother’s china

When I was a little girl, I didn’t appreciate my mother’s china – or her crystal, or the drop-leaf mahogany table where I inevitably got stuck with a leg in front of me at dinner parties. But now, I wish I could tell her that those two or three times a year when we have... »