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Almost 300 households dotted in rural and remote areas of Roanoke County are gaining access to high-speed internet service while construction nears completion on $880,000 of infrastructure improvements. Federal coronavirus relief funding paid for the Roanoke County broadband expansion projects in its Vinton, Catawba, Cave Spring and Windsor Hills districts. Under a county contract, Cox Communications expanded its fiber-optic and coaxial cable networks, connecting internet to as many as 90 homes in the Cave Spring and Windsor Hills districts. Residents along Ridgelea Estates Drive, Lost View L...

Jan 18, 2021 “Wreck on the Mountain Road” is about the death of a trucker on Bent Mountain, just southwest of Roanoke, Virginia.What was the first recorded trucking song? It's not something I’d thought about until I read a fascinating story, "Truck Driver's Blues," in the journal Automotive History Review. In it, Todd Uhlman, an assistant professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio, answers that question.  The song was “Wreck on the Mountain Road,” recorded by the Red Fox Chasers in 1928, but such trivia is only a small part of what Uhlman's article addresses. He places truc...

Overdrive Radio's new 'Songs of the Highway' podcast series explores important trucking songs. This week's episode focuses on a historic trucker song from 1928.

Martin County to Put Displaced Miners to Work at Solar Farms Former Kentucky State Auditor Adam Edelen hopes to provide about 300 former coal miners with jobs for years to come working on a solar farm. But the jobs would be part time and the solar farm is still in development. Liz Moomey, Lexington Herald-Leader   |   December 22, 2020   |  News (TNS) — On a former coal mine in Martin County, Ky., Adam Edelen wants to put displaced miners back to work on a solar farm. This month, Edelen got the support from Martin County Fiscal Court fo...