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Roanoke moviemaker shoots short film in and around the Star City Taj Simmons, Reporter Tags:  ROANOKE, Va. – The Star City isn’t necessarily known for movie stars, but an aspiring filmmaker from Roanoke decided to capture his hometown on camera. Michael Fleming directed the short thriller film “Parallax,” which premiered at the Grandin Theatre earlier this month. Fleming shot the nine-minute film on a $300 budget in the Roanoke area, mostly at the Shell gas station on Electric Road near Tanglewood Mall. This was Fleming’s first film, and he is now submitting his movie to several fi...

After being shuttered for almost a year due to pandemic restrictions, Mountasia Family Fun Center has been purchased by MB2 Group. Michael Fleming, former general managing partner at Mountasia, announced that the center was looking for a buyer in September, calling it a “Hail Mary” attempt to keep its doors open. Though it is still closed now, Chris Brooks, a Saugus resident and co-owner of the MB2 go-kart racing facility in Sylmar, purchased the center in October and already has started upgrading attractions and expanding Mountasia, according to Fleming. “It was exciting that we found ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   TOWNSHEND — On a trip to Iceland in 2009, poet Lucas Farrell’s wife, artist Louisa Conrad, brought him a fish hook that had pierced the bottom of her boot. The hook sat on his desk for a while as he wrote. “And then everything I was writing kept steering back to that hook,” Farrell, 39, recalled recently. His meditations on the fish hook would become the fourth and final section of “the blue-collar sun,” the manuscript that won the Townshend farmer the 2020 Sundog Poetry Book Award for a first or second manusc...

Daimler's Torc Robotics picks Amazon as cloud provider for self-driving trucks Toggle share menu Advertisement Daimler's Torc Robotics picks Amazon as cloud provider for self-driving trucks Daimler AG unit Torc Robotics said on Wednesday it has selected Amazon's cloud computing division to handle huge amounts of data in real time as it prepares to test self-driving test trucks in New Mexico and Virginia. A self-driving truck operated by Daimler unit Torc Robotics undergoes testing on a U.S. highway in this undated handout photo. Torc Robotics/Ha...

By Syndicated Content By Nick Carey (Reuters) - Daimler AG unit Torc Robotics said on Wednesday it has selected Amazon's cloud computing division to handle huge amounts of data in real time as it prepares to test self-driving test trucks in New Mexico and Virginia. Acquired by Daimler in 2019, Torc is developing level 4 autonomous technology - where the vehicle operates itself under specific operating conditions - which Daimler Trucks believes will fundamentally change the trucking and logistics business. "The problem we're trying to solve is the most difficult technical problem o...