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The Mill Mountain Star is being auctioned! Ownership of the Roanoke icon is only for a year, but the highest bidder will have his or her name placed on a sign along with the other plaques lining the landscape around the star on Mill Mountain. The best part is that the adoptive owner will not have to worry about maintenance: Members of the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke will continue their volunteer clean-up along with the Roanoke Parks and Recreation Department, which normally handles the upkeep. The May 8 live auction is part of the Roanoke Kiwanis Club’s annual Pancake Breakfast Auction Day, ...

MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times  Darris Nichols was introduced Wednesday as the new men’s basketball coach at Radford University. The Radford High School gradute has been on the Florida staff for six seasons. The Roanoke Times, File 2004  Darris Nichols was an All-Group A pick and the 2004 Timesland boys basketball player of the year at Radford High School. MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times  Radford athletic director Robert Lineburg (left) bumps fists with new Radford men's basketball coach Darris Nichols (center) as outgoing Radford President Brian Hemphill looks on at the Dedmon Center....

Spring has sprung, and the hard work of the Mill Mountain Garden Club is paying off with an explosion of brilliant colors lining the pathways of the newly restored Wildflower Garden atop Mill Mountain. On a recent Tuesday morning, over a background of a trickling pond and chirping birds, came the sounds of shovels in dirt and eight women laughing. “The visionaries,” as they call themselves, were immersed in the never-ending job of removing invasive species from the newly restored garden. These women, members of the Mill Mountain Garden Club and the driving force behind the revitaliz...

Betsy Biesenbach Special to The Roanoke Times Last March, Bre Vassar, chair of Roanoke’s Historic Garden Week in Virginia tour, had already begun lining up volunteers to open their homes and gardens when the 2020 tour was canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions. “It was a little depressing,” she said, since she had already been working on the project — which is sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Garden Club and the Mill Mountain Garden Club — for several months. At the time, most people thought it would be just a matter of weeks before everything got back to no...

Thousands race to the finish line in Blue Ridge Marathon Nearly 2,800 runners participated in the event Updated:  Tags:  ROANOKE, Va. – Calling it one of the toughest marathons ever, runners said the Blue Ridge Marathon was hard to defeat. Separated by chalk marks on Jefferson Street and divided into 50 groups, nearly 2,800 runners laced up and took off. With the coronavirus pandemic limiting physical interaction, runners like Daniel Montgomery from Lebanon, Virginia, gained more time to train for the race. Montgomery said he runs about two to three times a week. “I live in a place that...