Mayor Joe Cobb says the biomedical industry the city has grown wouldn’t be possible without the Roanoke River Flood Reduction Project.
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Roanoke City Council to consider appropriation requests from the school board, including for technical education, teacher quality
The funding awards support multiple initiatives, including increasing the number of qualified school mental health professionals in local education agencies, providing funding for adults who have not completed high school and others.
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‘Virginia’s fourth economic engine’: Effort to connect Southwest and Southside localities makes progress
An initiative called the Blue Ridge Innovation Corridor encompasses Danville, Martinsville, Blacksburg and Roanoke.
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Botetourt woman discovers a footlocker in her basement once belonged to a former Virginia governor
A military footlocker that once held the belongings of former Gov. Linwood Holton Jr. while he served in the U.S. Navy more than eighty years ago was recently returned to the late governor’s family — his daughter Anne Holton and her husband, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.
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Tech and life science innovators gather in Roanoke for 2nd annual Emerging Technology Conference
MapQuest founder and other national figures join local and regional leaders Thursday and Friday for Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council-hosted event at Hotel Roanoke.
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Roanoke County Board of Supervisors to consider rezonings allowing for 100-unit apartment complex, short-term rental and construction yard
The proposed apartment complex would sit on 3.35 acres of land on Thirlane Road, in the Catawba District.
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VDOT: Four meetings this week to get input on I-81 improvements
The meetings are being held Oct. 27-30 in Abingdon, Salem, Weyers Cave and Winchester.
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Virginia Tech researchers explain ‘chemo brain’ using first lab-grown human tissue to model brain’s drainage system
Jennifer Munson’s decade-long study in Roanoke reveals that chemo drugs damage the brain’s waste-clearing vessels — a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for “chemo brain” and other neurological diseases.
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Greenway’s election fraud charge to be dismissed pending community service
Roanoke County School Board member Tim Greenway, who is up for reelection this fall, agreed to complete 100 hours of community service to avoid a misdemeanor conviction.
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Roanoke to explore casino; city councilors, state legislators not all on board
The project requires a state legislator who will sponsor the bill. As of Tuesday afternoon, no state legislators have said they’d be on board to do so.
