Blue Ridge News

Some Botetourt County residents are trying to sink efforts to raise their water rates.

Make no mistake about it, this garden column is primarily about growing vegetables.

October was just a classically hectic month musically, with almost too many previews and reviews.

Wed. Nov. 4thA -A The Blue 5 Jam w/ Hoppie Vaughan *Thur. Nov. 5thA -A Nicole Hart & The NRG Band *Fri. Nov.

UPCOMING Information on public events of interest to businesspeople can be sent to Upcoming, The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke VA 24010, e-mailed to upcoming@roanoke.com or faxed to 981-3346. Deadline for submissions is two weeks before the event.

Raise funds and awareness to build a house where people can receive end-of-life medical care.

Town council denied Tuesday a request to locate a concrete plant in the town's Industrial Park.

The feast for the eyes that is the Virginia Fall Foliage Festival Art Show offers everything its title promises: visually rousing art pieces and an exquisite backdrop in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

An arrest has been made in the death of an eight-month-old in Bedford. An autopsy determined Marissa Burnett was the victim of a homicide in December 2008.

The future of Roanoke's chapter of Sexual Assault Response and Awareness, or SARA for short, is uncertain.

Blue Ridge Regional Jail officials are investigating the death of an inmate in the Lynchburg Adult Detention Center.

We spent a fantastic evening last night at the historic Blackthorne Inn & Restaurant in Upperville VA, a hunt-country getaway at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and historic Ashby Gap once owned by George Washington, reliving UVA Charlottesville concerts in the ampitheatre by Speidel, Goodrich, Goggin and Lille .

Thursday marked the beginning of "40+40: ...an arts and culture explosion," a monthlong celebration of the arts in the Roanoke Valley and beyond.

The Mo'Hippa Band, a blues band based in Waynesboro, will be one of the opening acts for three-time Grammy award winner Delbert McClinton during the Big Lick Blues Festival on Saturday at Elmwood Park in Roanoke.

The Blue Ridge Barons football overcame the visiting Flint Hill Huskies, 28-0 in Saturday's non-league bout.

We have rec league soccer photos of the Blue Ridge Bears vs. the Blue Ridge Superstars.

GREENVILLE - Alice Virginia Thorne Butler, 81, of Greenville was called home Wednesday, Sept.

A raw, whole chicken is the cook's equivalent of a blank canvas. It is clean, pure and ready to absorb whatever flavors are on the chef's palette that day, whether they be salty rubs, smoky spices, sweet glazes or good, old-fashioned barbecue sauce.

Traminette grapes wait to be crushed at Chateau Morrisette. The Traminette grape is a blending grape and was harvested from Silver Creek Orchard in Nelson County, owned by Ruth and John Sunders.

Children also got the chance to take a picture with their favorite PBS character.