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Shawn Nowlin [email protected] Submitted photosFriends and family celebrating as their graduate receives their diploma. After not being able to attend...

Shawn Nowlin [email protected] When students return to Salem High in the fall, things will look drastically different from how it...

Meg Hibbert Contributing writer Photo by Meg HibbertCindy and Tony Winstead of Salem celebrate their 24th anniversary on June 15...

Roanoke College has established an academic center dedicated to the study of historical and contemporary issues dealing with race and the legacies...

by Shawn Nowlin Submitted photoThe community is invited to take part in a PPE distribution event this Sunday. At the...

Shawn Nowlin Residents of all ethnicities throughout the Roanoke Valley protested the death of George Floyd, an unarmed man who...

Shawn Nowlin Seventeen years after graduating from Salem High School, Blair Dodson achieved another academic accomplishment last month, graduating with...

Shawn Nowlin Submitted photoSHigh school students Madison Bowen and Tiffany Work, left to right, presenting Lowe’s employee Pete Grant with...

Cynthia McKinney | Contributor writer This new historical marker paid for by the DAR Fort Lewis Chapter was unveiled May...

Executive Order Sixty-Three, signed by Governor Ralph Northam on May 26 in Richmond, requires Virginians to wear face coverings in...