Blacksburg News

Taking off on a motorcycle, plus packing a pen and notebook, Blacksburg, Va., resident explores The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail in a book called "Harmonic Highways" . Subtitled "Exploring Virginia's Crooked Road," this adventure and travel book stops in town after town, from Franklin County to the Kentucky border, as Abraham makes ... (more)

Pictured left to right row one: Grade 4 Educator Ashleigh Utzinger, Allyson Bateman, Aram Skederian, Selna Sni, Grade 4 Educator Sharon Newberne.

A young food enthusiast, who cooked in a Copenhagen restaurant voted best in the world for 2012, now works in a Blacksburg wine and beer store.

College Avenue was closed from Draper Road to Main Street last Saturday for the community to paint the street, now a mural of bold colors and handprints.

Watching movies together is a great family-friendly activity, but catching new releases at the theater each week gets expensive fast - multiple tickets, popcorn, drinks and candy, and you're probably spending at least $50. Luckily, during the summer throughout the Roanoke Valley you have a lot of ways to get the family into a flick without the ... (more)

A Montgomery County jury found a Christiansburg man guilty of rape and sodomy today in a case in which the man's DNA was tied to the sexual assault through a peeping incident.

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- -- David Long, president of Vitech Corporation , announced today the availability of the second edition of Vitech Corporation's ' A Primer for Model-Based Systems Engineering ,' written by Long and co-author Zane Scott, Vitech's vice president of professional services.

For the past three years, fifth graders at the Blacksburg school have created and implemented individual Make-A-Difference service projects.

It's following me home! After reaching Blacksburg and working for a while to strip the equipment off three vehicles we used in the first round of the Virginia Tech storm chase, storms began to develop over the Blacksburg/Christiansburg area and followed me toward Roanoke through Shawsville and Elliston .

BLACKSBURG, VA -- Last year before the Pulaski tornado even formed, Virginia Tech student and storm chaser, Kathryn Prociv was warning her classmates to take shelter fast.

Looking for ways to raise revenue, Montgomery County officials are eyeing allowing liquor to be sold by the drink in unincorporated areas.

Christiansburg Town Council last week took the first step toward becoming an independent city.

Montgomery Co., VA - At this hour, The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is investigating a body found in the New River in the White Thorn Boat Landing area of Montgomery County.

Police-involved shootings stemming from confrontations with mentally ill people seem to be growing, according to some experts, but concrete evidence doesn't exist.

Christiansburg High School's Class of 2002 is planning its 10-year reunion for the weekend of August 24-25, 2012.

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" will be produced by HaeBo Kids in Christiansburg and performed at Gilbert Linkous Elementary School in Blacksburg.

Fjolla Demiri , a third-grade student at Gilbert Linkous Elementary School in Blacksburg was honored as the winner of the local, district and regional Smokey the Bear and Woodsy the Owl Poster Contests sponsored by the American Federation of Garden Clubs.

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Investigators from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and the Virginia State Police Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at 1673 Duluth Road in the McCoy area of Montgomery County.

Montgomery County residents packed another budget meeting Tuesday as the school board discussed furloughing teachers, cutting positions and ending participation in the regional Governor's School, among other cost-saving measures.

I felt helpless in lending any real support other than a letter to the editor on behalf of my local Pax Christi group.