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Glenvar Village endorsed by planning commission

GLENVAR – Someday soon, people traveling on West Main Street will be going through Glenvar Village. And unlike today when much of the area is a hodgepodge of industries and vacant buildings, they will be able to tell they are in it. There are plans for signs saying “Welcome to the Village of Glenvar”... »

West Main Street loses two restaurants

SALEM - Hungry citizens now have two less options along West Main Street in Salem.  The popular Salem House Restaurant, located across from the Post Office on Main St., has closed its doors. According to Linda Carroll, Salem Commissioner of the Revenue, restaurant owners had not contacted her to notify her officially that it is closed.... »

Police ask help in finding how woman was fatally injured

ROANOKE COUNTY – Roanoke County Police are asking for help from the community in finding out how a young Elliston was fatally injured late night on May 12. Police identified her as 31-year-old Tara E. Farley, who was found with severe injuries in in the 6200 block of W. Main Street – U.S. Rt.... »

Glenvar residents consider plans for community’s future

GLENVAR – Anna Oyler and neighbor Lenore Kessel looked closely at orange, purple and yellow splotches on a map showing ideas of what the Glenvar Community could look like in the next 20 years. “We’re interested because we live right here,” said Oyler, pointing out Broadview Subdivision near Dixie Caverns off West Main Street.... »

Glenvar Library will be razed and relocated during construction

GLENVAR – By the winter of 2013, the cramped and outdated Glenvar Branch Library should be settled into its spacious new home with room for many more books, videos and recordings and magazines. But first, it will squeeze into temporary quarters at 2630 W. Main St. and the building people see today will be... »

Rt. 460-11 widening promises to ease congestion

GLENVAR – Western Roanoke County will have a welcoming gateway by the time the U.S. 460-11 widening project is completed in about 1-1/2 years. That’s what Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Chairman Butch Church is looking forward to. Church voiced those sentiments at the official groundbreaking for the project Nov. 17, held in front... »

Contract awarded to four-lane Rts. 460-11

SALEM – The Commonwealth Transportation Board has awarded a contract for the four-laning of West Main Street, U.S. 11-460, in Glenvar. The $22.6-million contract was awarded to DLB Inc. of Hillsville. The Salem Times-Register reported in August that DLB had submitted the lowest bid and the contract was expected to be awarded at the... »

Glenvar Rt. 460 widening construction could start in November

Almost a year after utility lines were relocated, construction could start in November to widen Rts. 460-11 in Glenvar. DLB out of Hillsville was the apparent low bidder after a second round of bids were opened Aug. 25, Virginia Department of Transportation officials said. Nothing will be definite until the contractor’s bonds and other requirements... »

Salem Pig makes a comeback

SALEM – The Salem Pig returned to West Main Street under cover of darkness last night, and it’s already been painted twice in its first 12 hours. It isn’t the same pig, of course, which sat next to now-gone Henry’s Memphis BBQ but the new pig is two doors away from where the first... »

Year of the (Painted) Pig ends

SALEM – The much-painted pig is gone. Long live the pig, at least, in memory and photographs. It all started more than a year ago with the otherwise naked concrete pig in front of Henry’s Memphis BBQ on West Main Street. Initially, after owner Henry Caldwell asked people to suggest what color the pig... »