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Hurricane Helene leaves lasting impacts on recreation sites

While the rains have passed and high waters have largely receded, impacts from Hurricane Helene are still causing closures at recreation sites in the New River and Roanoke Valleys. However, there are sites available and ready for use.

Bull and Bones Brewery Provides Boiled Water For Blacksburg Community

by Sean Weinstock

The Bull and Bones Brewery used its empty brewing tanks to provide water to the community during the boil water advisory.

Virginia Tech students run for those who can’t, raise money to help those people run again

Hope to Run at Virginia Tech is an organization that held it’s first meeting just one year ago. On Saturday, nearly 100 people came out to support a fundraiser that supports the club’s mission – To help amputees in third-world countries get access to prosthetics. They’re running for those who can’t.

WRKE and its Impact

WRKE is Roanoke College’s student radio station, and after being listed on Princeston’s Best College Radio Stations Listing two years in a row, new DJs are stepping up to make it the best it can be.

Tori Shoonmaker, a DJ at WRKE is working to have more live performances brought to Salem by the radio station to shine a spotlight on local talent.
While WRKE is a small radio station at a smaller school, the impact that it is having on the students that walk through its doors is profound.

Town of Dublin, VA Has Been Awarded a $1 Million EPA Grant To Help Clean Up Its Industrial Park.

Sean Weinstock

The Town of Dublin, VA has received a $1 million multipurpose grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up their under utilized industrial park. The cleaning process for the site will help create new community and business opportunities for the town in the future.

Campaign Yard Signs Appear in Blacksburg

Election season has reached Blacksburg, and so have yard signs.

The timing of their appearance a month before the election is no coincidence.

Leaders reconsider zoning for pet pig

By Ainsley Cragin

BLACKSBURG, V.A. – The Blacksburg Town Council considers a special zoning exception for homeowner Anthony Grafsky’s pet pig and two goats.

Grafsky shared pet pig Brutus’ heartwarming adoption story with town leaders at their Sep. 24 meeting in hopes that they would allow his four-legged family members to continue living in his backyard. Councilman Liam Watson expressed may look to broaden updates to Blacksburg’s agricultural zoning policies.