By Brian Hoffman
NEW CASTLE – The Salem Kiwanis Club and WDBJ-TV are partnering up to present the Roy Stanley Memorial Shootout.
The one-day tournament, featuring eight of the leading basketball teams in the Roanoke Valley and state, will build on the Member One Shootout the Salem Kiwanis have showcased for several years. The event will be held...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Three Salem residents and a former one are glad their cruise on the Costa Concordia was in October instead of last week.
The night of Friday the 13th, the same captain and Italian-registry ship that Beverly Reger, Ricki Moushegian and Peggy Weaver from Salem and Katie Moushegian of Atlanta sailed on evidently detoured...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Top newsworthy stories in 2011 that captured readers’ attention range from court procedures in the case of abducted 12-year-old Brittany Smith and her murdered mother, to searing heat and the happy announcement for Chick-fil-A lovers that the restaurant was breaking ground in Salem
Here is the month-by-month recap of what happened in 2011,...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Salem-area people who make pickles and similar products at home may be able to sell them at farmers markets and from their homes if a bill filed by Delegate Greg Habeeb passes.
The Republican who represents Salem and this area of Roanoke County pre-filed House Bill 46 in late November, at the request...
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By Staff Writer
ROANOKE VALLEY - Thinking of girls hanging out at skating rinks seems more like a flashback from the late seventies, but thinking that way about the Star City Roller Girls would be a mistake.
The team, made up of women who range in age from their 20’s to their 40’s, is flat track roller derby team. ...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – We all remember where we were, and what we were doing. Sept. 11. A date that changed our nation, and the way firefighters and police officers do their jobs.
9/11: The date terrorists flew two commercial airliners into the World Trade Towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon. We remember the...
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By Staff Writer
SALEM – Petrina Pate has a case of “cautious optimism.” In February, she found out something that gave her joyous chills. Rett Syndrome had successfully been reversed during research on a laboratory mouse. Additionally, the first phase of human testing began and is currently showing promise. For Petrina and her husband, Rick, the news...
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By Brian Hoffman
The Stonegate Swim Club Gators will be trying to win their first Roanoke Valley Aquatic Association City-County championship in over 40 years this weekend when the Salem YMCA hosts the annual season ending event.
ìI have not seen any records, but the rumor is that Stonegate has not won city-county since 1970,î said Gators coach...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Every weekday at 5 a.m., Wayne Boitnott arrives at Apple Market on Apperson Drive in Salem from his home in Vinton and starts cleaning, getting Store No. 304 ready to open at 6 a.m.
He’s done it for 41 years, starting back when it was Orange Market. Even before that, he worked for Green...
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By Meg Hibbert
BEDFORD – Sixty-seven years ago, the Bedford Boys and thousands of other young American men stormed the beaches of Normandy.
Their sacrifices with their blood and their lives on D-Day, June 6, are recalled in bronze, words and stone at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford County. The story of the memorial that almost wasn’t...
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