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From Whirlpool design engineer to Barter resident playwright
Catherine Bush once designed vacuum cleaners. Now she writes plays, including a new musical that opens Saturday in Abingdon.
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Roanoke ref worked the NCAA Final Four
Roger Ayers was sent home from 2021 tournament with covid but got to work this year’s Final Four, including Coach K’s final game.
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UVA Wise becomes second school in U.S. to adopt strict student-athlete misconduct rule
Student-athletes disciplined for sexual misconduct will now be unable to play at UVA Wise.
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Which is harder to find: A good pitcher or a good anthem singer?
Our two minor league teams, the Lynchburg Hillcats and the Salem Red Sox, open play Friday.
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A ‘foundational’ life now remembered with a historical marker
The marker is one of three proposed by students at Cumberland Middle School as part of a now-discontinued state program.
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Five minutes after applying, emergency director got the call
Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Theatre had to replace creative team for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’ after a white actress was cast for a Latina role. Here’s how the replacement director got tapped to take over the show.
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Casting of white actress in Latina role roils Mill Mountain Theatre
Roanoke venue cancels Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights,’ then changes mind after cast revolt, unfavorable publicity in New York. Role has been recast.
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Roanoke basketball great George Lynch talks about how game has changed
Former NBA star says college recruits make demands that they didn’t in his day.
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Modern-day ‘Monuments Man’ in Martinsville helps Ukraine
An archaelogist at the Virginia Museum of Natural Resources helps track status of cultural sites endangered by war.
