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Elementary students get pepped up about SOL tests

NEW CASTLE – A giant kangaroo, a famous gobbler and the Craig County Rocket Dog helped get third, fourth and fifth-graders at McCleary Elementary on May 3 excited about upcoming Standard of Learning tests they will take this week. Earlier last week across the mountain, Mugsy, the Salem Red Sox Baseball mascot was doing... »

Jamie Garst named assistant principal at Andrew Lewis Middle School

SALEM – Salem High School science teacher and baseball coach Jamie Garst has been named an assistant principal at Andrew Lewis Middle School, with his new job starting July 1. Garst’s appointment was announced today, April 25, by Salem School Superintendent Dr. Alan Seibert. Garst was Salem High School’s varsity baseball coach for the... »

Blacksburg remembers fallen Hokies

BLACKSBURG — Hundreds of students flooded the Drill Field at Virginia Tech on Monday night and early into Tuesday morning to honor 32 slain fellow Hokies — all of whom had died while most of the students present at the memorial were working their way into high school. The crowd swelled rapidly as the... »

Spring peepers of all kinds

I heard faint “peep, peep, peep” as I walked through the Roanoke Extension Service offices the other afternoon. “Peepers,” said Barbara Leach, the horticulture technician. I nodded, thinking there was a recording of spring peeper frogs as background music. Then I saw Lina Prillaman – the granddaughter of our Jeanne and Ray Robinson, our... »

Webster C. Hall matures into fine wine

SALEM – From the name and the antique painting of a hunt scene on its label, anyone seeing a bottle of Webster C. Hall’s 2010 Cabernet Franc Reserve could believe the winery has been around ages. The boutique winery with roots in Salem is relatively new on the scene, although one of its founders... »

Salem High School principal will leave with Class of 2013

SALEM – When the Salem High School Class of 2013 graduates in June, so will their principal. And like some of those students, C. Littlejohn Hall isn’t quite sure what he will be doing next after he officially retires June 30. His wife, South Salem Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Linda Hall, is retiring then,... »

Inauguration provides lifetime excitement for Salem residents

WASHINGTON, DC – Even though she took photographs, the images from Monday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama are etched on her mind. “It was one of those things you don’t really have to take pictures to remember it,” Salem High School senior Sarah Gobble said. Gobble and her mother, Katie Elmore, had seats at... »

Quidditch scores well with fans

ROANOKE COUNTY – Virginia Tech’s quidditch team may not have scored well enough to place in the first Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship Tournament, but Roanoke County scored some high marks as the host of the tournament. Virginia Tech’s team was eliminated in the first round of play against second-place finisher Maryland. Based on the fictional... »

Miller & Rhoads Tearoom evokes delicious memories

ROANOKE – Just the mere mention of Miller & Rhoads Tearoom set memories in motion and made mouths water. Dressing up to go downtown, snowy white tablecloths and of course, Miller & Rhoads Chocolate Silk Pie were the talk of more than 125 ladies and a few gentlemen at the Roanoke Country Club on... »

The name of the game is progress at Field of Dreams

NEW CASTLE – The name of the game at the CCRCA’s “Field of Dreams” is progress, progress, progress. And come spring the name of the game will be baseball/softball. Field No. 4 has now been completed with 500 pounds of special athletic field grass seed mix and 500 pounds of fertilizer applied to the... »