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A Roanoke County judge last week ordered the Confederate statue near the Roanoke County Courthouse moved — or the courthouse moved. This is a remarkable order on many levels beyond simply our ongoing reappraisal of what the Confederacy was all about and whether those associated with it should be honored. Here’s the most remarkable thing of all: This appears to be the first time in Virginia that a judge has ordered a statue outside the courthouse removed. You could fairly call this unp...

SUMMARY The Bristol Sessions occurred in 1927 when the Victor Talking Machine Company brought a field unit to Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, to record musicians from the region. Victor held the sessions on the second and third floors of the Taylor-Christian Hat Company building at 408 State Street on the Tennessee side of Bristol’s main thoroughfare, which also serves as the Tennessee-Virginia border. Director Ralph Peer and the Victor engineers recorded fiddle tunes, sacred songs, string bands...

Action from Wednesday night and Thursday morning at FloydFest ’21.  072321-roa-ex-floydfest-01 Volunteer Jacob Moody, 15, of Lynchburg sprays disinfectant on portable toilets at FloydFest on Thursday. The canister contains a mixture of alcohol, hydrogen peroxide and distilled water. The innovation — dubbed the BonAirosol pack — was developed by Kyle Falwell, who owns Lynchburg aviation company Bon Air Brokerage and created the pack to keep his planes clean durin...

Southwest Virginia’s long-running musical amusement park, FloydFest, is back for another late July run. FloydFest 21~Odyssey runs Wednesday through July 25, after a year off due to COVID-19. The event, which is operating at reduced capacity even as Virginia restrictions have fallen, is sold out. Quite a few things have changed in the nearly two years since the last time. As of July 1, cannabis possession was legalized in Virginia, with multiple caveats. Most people spent months wearing mas...

Read / Add Comments The body of a missing New York man who disappeared while jogging during a trip to Virginia has been found. According to Patrick County Sheriff Dan Smith, the body of Bruce Rubin, age 61, of Westchester County, was found around noon on Monday, July 12 off a bluff in the Roaring Creek Gorge in Vesta, Virginia. Rubin, the chief operating officer, and chief compliance officer of the multibillion-dollar investment firm Westchester Capital Management in Valhalla, was...

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Read / Add Comments The body of a missing New York man who disappeared while jogging during a trip to Virginia has been found. According to Patrick County Sheriff Dan Smith, the body of Bruce Rubin, age 61, of Westchester County, was found around noon on Monday, July 12 off a bluff in the Roaring Creek Gorge in Vesta, Virginia. Rubin, the chief operating officer, and chief compliance officer of the multibillion-dollar investment firm Westchester Capital Management in Valhalla, was...

Read / Add Comments The body of a missing New York man who disappeared while jogging during a trip to Virginia has been found. According to Patrick County Sheriff Dan Smith, the body of Bruce Rubin, age 61, of Westchester County, was found around noon on Monday, July 12 off a bluff in the Roaring Creek Gorge in Vesta, Virginia. Rubin, the chief operating officer, and chief compliance officer of the multibillion-dollar investment firm Westchester Capital Management in Valhalla, was...

10 lives were lost in crashes on Virginia highways during July 4 holiday weekend (Source: Pixabay) and last updated 2021-07-11 16:39:11-04 RICHMOND, Va. – During the July 4 holiday weekend, 10 peoples lives were claimed to crashes on Virginias highways. State Police say Virginia is experiencing a disturbing trend on its roads – increased traffic crash fatalities. Based on last weekends fatalities, the state is on pace to have another increase in 2021. According to preliminary reports...

Read / Add Comments The search for a Westchester man who was reported missing in Virginia after going for a jog will be temporarily suspended due to incoming inclement weather. The Patrick County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia announced that the search for Harrison resident Bruce Rubin, who was reported missing on Friday, July 2, will be temporarily suspended due to potentially dangerous weather conditions that are making their way up the East Coast. Rubin, 61, went jogging on the...