Local Stories

The Virginia 250 Passport serves as a travel guide, discount book and keepsake. The Salem Museum is featured as a...

Powell Aila Boyd aboyd@mainstreetnewspapers.com Salem Police arrested a 22-year-old man in the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 6 after responding...

The ribbon cutting was held on Thursday, Nov. 6 at the West Roanoke River Greenway. Aila Boyd aboyd@mainstreetnewspapers.com Roanoke County...

The regional writers’ group Persiflage/Writers will kick off the holiday season with a mass book sale and signing on Saturday,...

Salem residents and neighbors gathered at Friendship Richfield Living on Friday, Nov. 7, for a Celebration of Life & Lights,...

The Losers Club: Held at the Salem Center but not just for seniors. All adults are welcome. Every Tuesday 5 –...

By Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz. Is there a recipe that immediately makes you think of the month of November? Pumpkin pie...

After more than three decades of dedicated service to the nation’s Veterans, Dr. Rebecca Stackhouse has retired from the Salem...

Election Day activity was steady Tuesday morning outside the Salem Civic Center, the city’s largest polling place. Voters decided contests...

A rescue boat on Lancing Drive in Salem during the Flood of 1985. The Salem Museum will commemorate the 40th...