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4/3: Hopping Down The Bunny Trail

The Christiansburg Department of Parks and Recreation presents Hopping Down The Bunny Trail on Saturday, April 3, 2021 in the parking lot of the Christiansburg(more…)… Read the rest

4/17: Red Cross Blood Drive

Red Cross Blood Drive Saturday, April 17 10:00 a.m. — 2:00 p.m. Saint Thomas Episcopal Church 103 E. Main Street Christiansburg, VA 24073 Make appointments(more…)… Read the rest

A LINE OF SHOWERS WILL AFFECT ROANOKE…PULASKI…FLOYD…CARROLL…BEDFORD…WYTHE…FRANKLIN AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES…THE CITY OF RADFORD…THE CITY OF SALEM…THE CITY OF ROANOKE AND THE NORTHEASTERN CITY OF GALAX…(more…)… Read the rest

Wind Advisory Issued

Wind Advisory from SUN 1:00 PM EDT until MON 4:00 AM EDT Issued By Roanoke/Blacksburg – VA, US, National Weather Service. Affected Area: The foothills(more…)… Read the rest

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

The National Weather Service in BLACKSBURG has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the region until 215 PM EDT. * At 111 PM EDT, a(more…)… Read the rest

Reality Check for the Democrat Agenda

A week of hearings in the Energy and Commerce Committee was supposed to build momentum for the Democrat agenda. But testimony offered at the hearings(more…)… Read the rest

Memories…

I was an only child for more than 15 years. My cousins had five or six or more siblings. My two uncles had no children(more…)… Read the rest

Griffith Questions Tech CEOs About Child Exploitation, Moonshot CVE

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today participated in a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing featuring tech CEOS. He questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO(more…)… Read the rest

National award for NRCA leader

Terry Smusz, CEO of New River Community Action, has been selected as the recipient of the national Ann Kagie Community Services Block Grant Award. The(more…)… Read the rest

Protest by Proxy?

Everyone’s been following the news about the tree sitters on Yellow Finch this week, how they’ve been camped out high up in the trees as(more…)… Read the rest

Last tree sitter removed from Yellow Finch site

UPDATE 4PM: Alexander Samuel Parker Lowe, 24 years old, of Worcester, Massachusetts (2nd tree sitter) was arrested and charged with Obstruction of Justice and Interfering(more…)… Read the rest

Extraction of tree-sitters on Yellow Finch Lane

Update 9:50 pm: Claire Marian Fiocco, 23 years old, from Dorset, Vermont (first tree sitter extracted) was arrested and charged with VA Code 18.2-121 Interfere(more…)… Read the rest

$15.9 Million Expansion at LewisGale Montgomery

LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, a part of LewisGale Regional Health System, announced today plans to invest $15.9 million to enhance its surgery department located at 3700(more…)… Read the rest

Biden’s Crisis at the Southern Border

Abraham Lincoln was fond of a question that asked: if you call a sheep’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have? If someone(more…)… Read the rest

Tom Woods: The Charts That Tell the COVID Story

Ian Miller’s heroic charts tell the story of the failure of the fashionable motivation measures against COVID, so I’m glad to have a chance to(more…)… Read the rest

COVID-19 Vaccine Hearings

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Republican Leader of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today delivered opening remarks at a hearing on COVID-19(more…)… Read the rest

Southwest Virginia Traditional Music Contest

The Handmade Music School is calling for entries for a traditional music and dance contest, in adult and youth categories, to be submitted virtually. Deadline(more…)… Read the rest

New Head Start Bus for preschoolers

New River Community Action (NRCA) is excited to announce a new transportation option for children in the Shawsville and Elliston areas to attend Head Start(more…)… Read the rest

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