Salem News

Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia is seeking bowlers and prizes for its 27th annual fundraising bowl-a-thon Feb.

As serious work begins on the state budget, the debate over school funding grows in volume but not clarity.

Last week I updated you on the latest concerning the grocery store, restaurant and cafe planned for the Sixteen West development on Church Avenue in downtown Roanoke.

Here's a Valentine for some sweethearts of Salem. Maybe your own sweet self is among them.

Fifty-five years after he helped found the fire department, Pug Wells is stepping down.

With Evan Friedell of Jimkata. Streaming music: The title cut to new EP "Ghosts And Killers" and "Roll With The Punches" In a world of country music performers who wear their patriotism on their sleeve, Aaron Tippin stands out.

Welcome to The Notebook, the community gathering place for news and tidbits from So Salem , by community journalist Miranda Beck .

Talk about your wide-ranging triple-bills. The New Orleans groovemeisters of Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk hit Growler's on Friday, with blues-and-soul rocker Jamie McLean Band and Roanoke electro-jammers Funk Punch.

Roanoke's Marginal Arts Festival is branching out into Salem this year - Salem's feature day of the festival is Sunday, February 19 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in Olin Hall at Roanoke College.

In October the Salem Veteran Affairs Medical Center held an inpatient recovery program for female veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Police Officer Mark Adkins, who is assigned to the Patrol Division of the Salem Police Department, has been selected by his peers as "Officer of the Year" for 2011 after his work in solving several larcenies in the city.

Have a historic photo you want to share? Your community, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, VA 24010 or email yourcommunity@roanoke.com . Please put Looking Back in the subject line.

Since 1964, wings have been gaining in popularity and have now become inseparable from game-day parties.

All of the Super Bowl commercials 2012 videos are being made available online for those who missed them.

Not that we'd want to add another layer of bureaucracy or impose yet another mandate on existing departments, but wouldn't it be interesting to require some agency to tabulate the success of every bill passed by the General Assembly in doing what lawmakers intended? Say, check its progress in 18months, then again in five years.

The following local residents were recently named to the Dean's List at the College of William and Mary for the spring 2011 semester: In order to achieve Dean's List status, a full-time degree seeking undergraduate student must take at least 12 credit hours and earn a 3.6 Quality Point Average during the semester.

Isaac Coffey fly-fishes in the Roanoke River in Salem on a sunny afternoon on Tuesday.

The Salem Fire & EMS Department responded to a structure fire at 1713 Riverview Drive, at the Pizza Pasta Pit restaurant, Wednesday evening, at approximately 10:52 p.m. The first units arrived within six minutes of receiving the call and found heavy smoke coming from the building.

Mrs. Null was born July 3, 1916, in Salem, the daughter of the late Harvey George Perry and Ella Gillespie McNeil.

The Roanoke Times Roanoke City Public Schools' coordinator of fine arts may leave this summer to become Salem High School's next band director.