Photo by Meg HibbertBefore the Aug. 26 Council meeting, Salem Assistant City Manager Jay Taliaferro looks at an example of...

Photo by Shawn NowlinThomas Powell (l) and Max Bailey (r ), both seven years of age, carefully gaze upward for...

Photo by Shawn NowlinStanding next to the old Roanoke County Courthouse building, this Confederate statue near the campus of Roanoke...

  If you’re in Salem and need to be transported to the hospital, it could soon cost you more. In...

PHOTO BY SHAWN NOWLINMore than 75 people came to the Aug. 3 public forum to hear ideas for and ask...

PHOTOS BY MEG HIBBERTVolunteers raised the money to pay for these three concrete crosses cast by the City of Salem...

Photo by Meg HibbertJulio Lopez carefully repaints letters on the Peacock-Salem Cleaners on July 18. Developer Ed Walker and others...

Volunteers on one shift comparing notes outside Fair Command trailer are, from left, former Salem Rescue Squad member Paul Gee...

Photo by Meg HibbertAuthor Mark O'Connell sits in bleachers in Kiwanis Field, the old stadium in Salem where Andrew Lewis High...

Twenty-five years ago, some of Salem’s oldest buildings were being torn down and with them, building blocks of the city’s...