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Opera North pairs Mascagni’s masterpiece with teenage Rachmaninov in a potent double bill. Plus, well-tuned extremes from Tenebrae and a blizzard of notes with Mahan Esfahani

Kevin Kellys new play about the great composer handles themes of

Blacksburg town leaders are tackling the town's housing issues head-on in what they're calling a housing emergency.

English composer Benjamin Britten is writing The Turn of the Screw. Based on a novella by Henry James, it follows the worries of a young governess sent to the countryside to take care of a pair of children. As Britten is building his melodies, the government is working hard to shut down the influence of what they call “high profile homosexuals’’ (think John Gielgud and friends). With the threat of governmental intervention into the private lives of many men, Britten’s behaviour risks dra...

BLACKSBURG -- Housing prices have increased dramatically in the New River Valley since COVID. For some members of the Blacksburg Town Council, the cause appears to be Virginia Tech.

Liam Watson appears to have won the third and final seat on the Nov. 7 ballot for the Blacksburg Town Council after a vote counting error was untangled.

Montgomery County election officials are still trying to determine how 662 votes were apparently missing on Monday.

The write-in count for a Blacksburg Town Council seat remains unfinalized after hundreds of votes were missing from the first count.

Newcomer Kim Bowman also earned Christiansburg council seat.

One of the big questions in the Roanoke and New River valleys is whether Democrats can win in two newly drawn districts — one in the House and one in Senate.