More than 30 minutes while Holding Signs that read save greenfield and the soul of botetourt. Some were very emotional. Even as we have gone through struggles we know that sometimes a song can cause you to reflect on god and know that what we have go through and though we have been through we are really disappointed that they havent taken the time to get public imput on this. I think thats where a lot of dissentions come from in the county. It was a wrong thing to do but we just have to go forward from here lewis says despite Botetourt Countys plans to move the houses, she will not give up. I think they are depending on me to do what i can to preserve the heritage. Yes im greenfield at election time in Botetourt County an exact date for the move has not been set. The group plans to have more meetings and protests. Noell saunders wdbj7. Drivers on interstate 81 north should be prepared for major delays. An overturned tractortrailer has shut down northbond traffic. This is a live look at
Brought down many tree limbs, and power lines in neighborhoods throughout the region, including roanokes raleigh court. Aleta delaplane actually at 3 45 we woke up to a transformer exploding. It was big green arc light in the back it was amazing. It was kind of cool. And then the power went out. And then it came back on. And then it went out again, so i think weve been without power since 6 45 this morning. When the electricity went out, so did aleta delaplanes heat. But she and a neighbor were making the best of their day without power, sitting by the gas fireplace. And when we left at midafternoon, they were waiting patiently for an appalachian power crew to arrive. Live in roanoke joe dashiell wdbj7. When will power be back on. Thats the question many of you want to know. Joining us now is teresa hall appalachian power spokesperson. First of all how many customers are without power right most of the outages . Teresa more than 29 thousand are without electric service. The most severe
From the south of the next couple days highs in the sixties by saturday and sunday alayna how long that will stick around and will southside received a threatening message this week, supposedly from isis. Wdbj7s Christian Heilman is here with more on the threat and whos on alert. Hargrave military academy in chatham is under increased security tonight. That threatening message on tuesday. It could be linked to the islamic state. Hargrave touts itself premier military boarding school primarily for seventh through 12th graders. Its located in chatham. The schools president says they immediately got in touch with local Law Enforcement after receiving the message. Now, that investigation includes other state and federal agencies. Today, the school held assemblies with cadets and employees. They also sent a message to parents. Internal security is up at the school tonight. Other Law Enforcement have increased patrols on campus, too. There was an open house planned for this weekend but be al
Consider borrowing 40Million Dollars to build a middle school and gymnasium for students in the northwestern part of the county. Wdbj7s tim saunders is live in bedford with a preview of tonights meeting. Jean, School Leaders have been talking about this project for a long time and tonight theyre hoping they need to move forward. Supervisors will consider a resolution on construction of a school and a competition gym for 40million of that amount would be borrowed. The board cast a similar vote last june, limiting the project to 38million. Since then three new members have been elected. Some members of the school board have said the project cant be done for 38million and tonight theyll get support from parents like john messier, who plans to speak at the meeting in favor of the larger amount. John messier parent we need to let the five supervisors who are in favor of the project at 100 of the funding know that we support them and appreciate that, and the other two supervisors we need to
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