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Craig student wins in Holocaust visual art contest

CRAIG COUNTY – Craig County student Mitchell England won first place in the junior division and a $200 prize for his entry in the Virginia Holocaust Museum’s Visual Arts Contest in Richmond. Mitchell is an eight-grader at Roanoke Catholic School. This year students were encourage to create art reflecting on the concept “To Save... »

Craig Girl Scout works to complete ‘Take Action Project’

CRAIG COUNTY – Craig County Girl Scout Olivia Dudding is working to complete her Take Action Project the first part of May. The Craig County High School senior, who is 18, selected the project as an outcome of the Girl Scout Young Women’s World Forum she attended in Chicago, Ill., in July 2012. “I... »

Drug Court graduates share day with retiring probation officer

ROANOKE – For 17 years, Michael J. Fosbre helped turn lives around. Fosbre, who lives in Vinton with his wife, Carla, is better known as the “Drug Court guy.” There was a big ceremony for him when retired Dec. 28 as senior probation officer in the 23rd judicial Circuit of Virginia after a total... »

Family Dollar Store at East Vinton Plaza robbed

VINTON – The Family Dollar Store located in the East Vinton Plaza on Washington Avenue in the Vinton was robbed Wednesday, according to the Roanoke County Police Department. At 12:24 p.m. Wednesday a white male entered the Family Dollar Store in East Vinton Plaza. The subject approached one of the cashiers and made a... »

Music transforms her into a dancing woman

SALEM – Although Parkinson’s is her constant companion, when some of her favorite bands start playing bluegrass at the Salem Senior Center, Robertine Thomas can dance. The 70-year-old Salem resident gets out of her wheelchair with the help of caregiver and friend Nellie King of Vinton, King’s friend Buddy Gibson of Blue Ridge and... »

A special wedding: father gets license to marry couple

SALEM – Steve Pendleton isn’t a minister, but for one important day in his son’s life, he was. The Salem man got a special one-day license in order to perform the wedding ceremony for son Derek and fiancé Brandi Compton on April 21. The wedding was more than a year earlier than Derek and Brandi’s... »

Law enforcement agencies come together to honor the fallen

SALEM – In honor and representation of brotherhood, local law enforcement agencies came together to honor the fallen heroes of the Salem area and other communities on May 17. Salem was the host city for this year’s memorial service held at First Christian Church. Representatives of police departments and sheriff’s offices from Salem, Roanoke County,... »

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,... »

Ailing housing industry shows signs of recovery

VINTON–Sheila States, realtor for Wainright and Company, spent a Saturday afternoon in January showing houses in Vinton to a prospective first-time homebuyer. Of the seven homes on her original list, four were under contract within the week. Is that an indication that the housing market, at least in Vinton, is picking up? According to... »

Bulldog love by the dozen

CRAIG COUNTY – When Cathy Davis and her sister Elaine Puckett sit down to talk in Elaine’s living room in Craig County, they’re likely to have a lapful of company: Lily the English bulldog – and her 11 puppies. “These days it’s older people getting together and having bulldog babies,” said Cathy. The sisters... »