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Guitar festival celebrates its 25th year of bringing musicians from around the globe to Radford
The Radford University International Guitar Festival, set for this Friday and Saturday, includes a baroque lutenist, plus Chinese performers and the guzheng, a plucked zither that originated 2,500 years ago.
Politics
Spanberger greenlights incentive packages for Hitachi and Avio
The energy generation equipment and rocket ship motor manufacturers are expected to bring hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in capital investment to Southside Virginia.
Local
Pittsylvania to hold public hearing on raising real estate tax rate, solid waste fee
The county board of supervisors will hear input from residents Thursday before voting on the proposed increases.
Culture
Parkway foundation sees bright future for dark sky tourism
The nonprofit Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, headquartered in Winston-Salem, is partnering with universities to conduct a comprehensive light pollution survey from the parkway’s northern gate at Rockfish Gap to its southern terminus near Cherokee, N.C.
education
Roanoke City School Board approves preliminary budget in preparation of cuts
The school board’s budget is not final and does not yet detail cuts to programs or personnel that will need to be made in the upcoming fiscal year, but it did include 2% raises for RCPS employees.
eCONOMY
Cardinal Commerce Notes: Recent real estate sales, resources for displaced Yokohama Tire workers, Crumbl coming to Roanoke area, Danville small business-focused event
Get up to speed on recent business happenings.
OPinion
Danilowicz and Pace: Working together to build opportunity — and keep talent —in Southwest and Southside Virginia
Meeting the job demand requires continued investment in programs that align with local workforce needs — and the partnerships that make those programs possible.
Health Care
Researchers study long-term health effects of Hurricane Helene across central Appalachia
Research has found that life expectancies can decline for more than a decade in communities hit by severe flooding. A new study seeks to explore why that happens.
news briefs
Headlines from across the state: Board approves carp comeback at Smith Mountain Lake to eat invasive hydrilla; more …
From elsewhere: House passes bill allowing new emergency access road at Wintergreen Resort. New Virginia laws target school construction and classroom cellphone use. A Northern Virginia church pledges $1 million to erase debt for public housing residents.
Sports
‘Martinsville Missile’ sets a new land speed record for a stock car
With a Henry County driver behind the wheel, the car designed and built in Martinsville broke the record of 244.9 mph with a top speed of 253 mph.
WEATHER
Some foolish (but totally true) regional weather facts on April 1
Every day is April Fools’ Day on the internet. However, some real but weird statistics can show how dry, warm and snowy (or not) it’s been in our region recently.
Cardinal 250
Freedom was paved with confiscation
Virginia eventually seized and sold off an estimated 53,000 acres, plus personal property, which in some cases included enslaved Africans.
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