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Botetourt County Fire and Emergency Medical Services workers from multiple stations were called to the scene, a curvy stretch of northbound U.S. 220 near the four-lane highways intersection with Santana

Botetourt County Fire and Emergency Medical Services workers from multiple stations were called to the scene, a curvy stretch of northbound U.S. 220 near the four-lane highways intersection with Santana

Botetourt County Fire and Emergency Medical Services workers from multiple stations were called to the scene, a curvy stretch of northbound U.S. 220 near the four-lane highways intersection with Santana

The property - located in Roanoke city - would serve the U.S. 460 corridor, including Bonsack.

By pieces and threads the centurylong story of the Julius Oliver family’s farm on the western slope of Read Mountain continues to come together.

What follows is a story about an American dream that was not blocked, demolished or abandoned and the resulting generational prosperity that has endured against the odds.

Botetourt County first responders assisted Roanoke County while rescuing a hiker who sustained a traumatic injury at the Read Mountain Preserve.

Transcendence, Jane Got a Gun) will be adapting the nonfiction bestseller Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story Of The Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar, and theyve picked up the rights to turn it into a feature film. Attached to write the script is Brandon Lee Tenney, a name you may recognize as he wrote for this site for many years. Brandon is a friend of mine and wrote many articles and reviews for us (find his posts here) before transitioning into a screenwriting career. This is his fi...

Swimmers have spoken. Responding to a previous report in which conflicting recollections described the location of the long dry Tinker Bell swimming pool, a cadre consisting of what sounded like pretty much anybody who rode a bicycle, got sunburned, or wore then discarded a rubberized noseclip anywhere near Read Mountain from the 1950s to ’70s emailed or called to say the correct address was just off Plantation Road. Randall Woodford sent a 2016 promotional link for sale of property that i...

Almost a quarter-century ago on a breezy hilltop in northeast Roanoke two questions were posed: What’s in the box? Who wants to open it to find out? The questions were part of an archaeological examination that accompanied the moving of a historic graveyard in order to make way for a construction project. The 1997 exhuming and re-interment of the Oliver family cemetery from the shadow of Read Mountain to Mountain View Cemetery in Vinton was recapitulated here earlier. Not presented then we...