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 – Salem City Council will commend champions and championship teams from Salem High School at the first meeting of the year on Monday, Jan. 9. The 6:30 p.m. meeting will be in City Council Chambers in the rear of Salem City Hall on North Broad Street. The meeting is an hour...
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By Staff Writer
SALEM – The opening night of the Salem Fair on June 30 was bursting with excitement to reveal winners of the Blue Ribbon Exhibits. Exhibit owners and fairgoers roamed the exhibit rooms inside the Salem Civic Center with curiosity of the entries and the possibilities they had won a ribbon.
Ribbons were awarded...
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By Staff Writer
SALEM – Kids ran around with cotton candy-filled stomachs and arms full of prizes from the carnival games while large crowds filtered under the glowing lights of the entrance to the Salem Fair on its opening weekend.
Camels, tigers, horses and goats greeted fair attendees near the main entrance, but beyond the petting zoo lay...
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By Staff Writer
SALEM – Emotions were mixed as the Class of 2011 walked the stage in Salem High School’s graduation on June 14 at the Salem Civic Center.
“I had a bittersweet feeling,” graduate Samantha Waehler said. Deja Browner added, “It’s been a crazy ride.”
As the graduates prepared to enter the civic center arena, they reflected on the...
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By Submitted
SALEM – Free shredding of documents that was to be outside at the Salem Civic Center tomorrow, April 16, has been postponed because of forecasts of heavy rain and thunder storms.
The new date will be Saturday, April 30, in the back parking lot of the Salem Baseball Stadium, from 8-11 a.m. It will be...
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By Meg Hibbert
Salem Mayor Randy Foley, who has children about to start college, was glad to see the Virginia 529 College Savings Plan exhibit at the April 5 Financial Literacy Fair.
Beth Miller, the organization’s director of scholarships and education outreach, and Becky Robinson, education coordinator, gave Foley information on what the state offers parents and students...
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By Meg Hibbert
A $5 rabies vaccination clinic will be held on Saturday, April 16, for Vinton, Roanoke County, Salem and Roanoke residents.
It will be at the Salem Civic Center, from 9 a.m.-noon for dogs and cats 3 months and older.
Pre-register by noon on April 13 at www.tinyurl.com/rabiesclinic2011, and print and bring completed registration form for each...
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By Meg Hibbert
SALEM – Paula Deen had Salem and Roanoke Valley fans eating out of her hands Saturday night.
Well, not literally, but the 2,400 people in the Salem Civic Center couldn’t get enough of her at “Paula Deen Live” at the Salem Civic Center.
The Georgian had the crowd hooked from her first “Hey, y’all” and she...
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By Meg Hibbert
I got a call from Paula Deen the other day. Honest. And she didn’t start off the conversation with “Hey, y’all.”
She did at her “Paula Deen Live” show at the Salem Civic Center Oct. 2, though. If she hadn’t, people would have been disappointed.
Paula is just a good ol’ gal from South Georgia. That’s...
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