Salem’s minor league baseball team has changed its name. Reaction is … divided.
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Roanoke, Roanoke County, Salem, Vinton, Franklin County, Craig County, Botetourt County
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Defense firm to add 288 jobs at Roanoke County site
Elbit Systems of America, which makes night-vision goggles for the military, will invest $30 million at its facility on Plantation Road.
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Let’s yak about the Yaks. The Salem RidgeYaks, that is.
Social media comments say the new name was a swing and a miss. Merchandise sales say it was a solid hit.
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Roanoke to hold 4 community listening sessions in November
The sessions will be hosted by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance.
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Determining winner for third Roanoke County School Board seat could take days
The candidates — incumbent Cheryl Facciani and challenger Ryan White — are separated by just a few dozen votes.
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Greenway and Linden win reelection to Roanoke County School Board; third race too close to call late Tuesday
Plus, a roundup of other school board results from across the region.
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Hash reelected as Roanoke sheriff
In other regional sheriff’s races, Randy Hamilton Jr. was reelected in Buena Vista and Tony McFaddin Jr. was reelected in Lexington/Rockbridge County.
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Forty years after the Flood of ’85, Roanoke is still doing what it can to reduce future flood risk. Mitigation efforts have proven effective thus far.
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.
