Many in Danville don’t know about the club. That’s why it’s working to attract new members and increase its presence in the city.
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New historic marker tells the story of Roanoke ophthalmology pioneer Elbyrne Gill
The marker was unveiled Friday across the street from the site of the former Gill Memorial Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital.
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‘High stakes journalism with local heart’: Cardinal News takes home inaugural Integrity award, 40 total prizes at Virginia Press Association awards banquet
Cardinal News also was recognized for its “State of Surveillance” coverage and took home best-in-show awards in writing and digital categories.
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Former Lynchburg editor’s book chronicles former slaves’ effort to craft their own destiny
In “Out of Virginia: Black Americans’ Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia,” former Lynchburg News & Advance editor Joe Stinnett tells the story of the hundreds of former Virginia enslaved people who emigrated, often under coercion, to Africa.
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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.
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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.
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From butterfly effect to wheel of fortunes: Center in the Square, part 2
Roanoke’s Center in the Square has been pivoting away from its original mission of providing financial support for a hub of nonprofit cultural groups, and instead has begun creating its own attractions.
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Center in the Square: Institution to attraction?
Center in the Square opened in downtown Roanoke in the 1980s with a goal of providing nonprofits with rent-free space. That approach has shifted in recent years.
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Beyond the cardinal numbers: Have you heard about the state bird?
A swooping survey of all things cardinal.
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Only 13 of the nearly 100 known lynching sites in Virginia have historic markers. A new state program seeks to change that.
The General Assembly allocated $76,008 to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources to cover the costs of 15 new markers at or near the sites of lynchings.