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Service Saturday for former GHS band director

GLENVAR – A memorial service will be held tomorrow, June 16, at 11 a.m. at Glenvar High School Auditorium for the school’s former band director, Wilber E. Grant who died June 13. Music and birding were the life of Grant, 73, who was currently directing the Roanoke Valley Community Band, as well as conductor... »

Students learn what it’s like to be blind

NEW CASTLE – Second and third graders at McCleary Elementary have a new understanding about what it is like to be blind. Tina Van Buren’s third grade class had just finished reading a book written by Sharon Creech, “Granny Torrelli Makes Soup,” in which Bailey, a boy who is one of the main characters,... »

Polish students give Americans lesson in music

CAVE SPRING–They say that music is a universal language, and for three students from Opole, Poland, that may be true. In words, much of what they said got lost in translation. When they picked up their instruments, though, the music theory students at Cave Spring High School knew exactly what was being said. The... »