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Once upon a time, there was an organization known as Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Over the course of 32 years, the nonprofit group raised funds to support maintenance and beautification efforts along its 469-mile-long namesake. The parkway is often cited as America’s most-visited national park. In some of those years, the group raised millions of dollars, according to its tax returns. Even more importantly, the organization annually fielded and organized thousands of hours of labor by do-gooding volunteers. On parkway property, they picked up trash, created and maintained hiking tr...

By Ray Cox Special to The Roanoke Times Experience tells us some questions endure and nag. One, you may have heard before: The train has long since pulled away but whatever became of the station from which it departed? A variation of that query dealt with here recently has been the fate of the old Buchanan depot after Norfolk & Western train service ceased there. A twisty track has led us to a forgotten plan to deconstruct and reassemble that old station as part of failed effort to develop a living history exhibit at the old Explore Park in Roanoke County. Now part of the county p...

Reporting from the unsolved mysteries desk, there are no new developments in the case of the missing Buchanan train depot. Despair not. More details have emerged about its history between closing and its removal from its hometown to an undisclosed location. The inquiry began when Jessie Burton, citizen of that splendid small town, came here seeking help to trace the whereabouts of the remains of the historic structure after they were hastened away by those who had handled the demolition in the mid-1980s. The story as the questioner related it was that the depot had been meticulously disassemb...

Good mysteries are popular with both newspaper readers and content providers. Unsolved mysteries are less satisfying but inevitable. You’ve seen them in this space before and foolish pride does not

Roanoke County's largest park got some new additions this weekend.