Vera Morton started school five years late due to school closure. It’s taken decades to catch up. Now she wants to write a book.
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There’s no break in college athletics
The latest installment of Doug Doughty’s college sports notebook.
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‘Great Expectations’ program helps a ‘forgotten group’ go to college
The program is aimed at foster youth who, upon reaching adulthood, often have no support network.
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A quest to remember Roanoke’s nameless dead
City council member Joe Cobb seeks to identify those whose graves were dug up and reburied in a cemetery marked by a single tombstone.
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From bad to worse
A bus breakdown and lightning plague Roanoke College-Shenandoah lacrosse match. More in this college sports round-up.
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Celebrating Appalachia’s heritage, block by block
Project Heritage Quilt honors the stories of Wise and Dickenson counties and will be unveiled next week at a Richmond museum gala. But creator Amy Tetterton doesn’t want to stop there.
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These musicians collect instruments for those who lost theirs in natural disasters
Bill Hudson of Franklin County and Al Coffey of Roanoke lead a two-man effort that since 2005 has collected and donated hundreds of musical instruments to victims of natural disasters and others in need.
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Family tree hard to miss at Roanoke College
Son follows in father’s footsteps. Next year, two of them will.
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State set to recognize Lynchburg’s ‘rose wrangler’
A historical marker will be dedicated in Lynchburg Sunday to the late rosarian Carl Cato.
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German football player at North Cross gets Tech offer
Doug Doughty’s college sports notebook.