Alan Gaylor News Today

The Red Wing School Board voted Feb.22 to end the district-wide mask mandate effective immediately. Masks are now optional/recommended and only required during the following three circumstances:

Blue Ridge Literacy Executive Director Ahoo Salem talks about publishing stories from the nonprofits students. “I wrote my daughter for the first time last year,” the essay begins. “Her name is Julie. She is thirty-three.” This account of a personal triumph over illiteracy is one of almost three dozen contained in volume 25 of “Writing from the Heart,” an annual publication from Blue Ridge Literacy in Roanoke. The books gather stories and reflections from the stude...