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Eight years after moving into her Old Southwest apartment, Roanoke resident Rhenda Milman hopes a rent relief application or a long-awaited backlog of unemployment payments due to her will clear an outstanding balance with the landlord. With a court hearing scheduled next week, Milman is one of hundreds of city residents facing the possibility of eviction. Although a recently extended federal order has stopped landlords from evicting pandemic-impacted tenants for now, the moratorium will end eventually — and tenants will still be responsible for paying all of their back rent. “Troub...

This has been a difficult year for everyone, but Sue Wilson has had an especially hard time. Wilson, 60, said she has been working all her life — mostly in the health care field. But in January, she was working as a kitchen supervisor at the Western Virginia Regional Jail. She’d been on the job for just two weeks when she slipped and fell, injuring a knee she’d had replaced 10 years ago. It took her five months to find a new job, she said, but in May, she was hired by a local hospital to clean and sterilize surgical instruments. Although many instruments these days are single-u...

NEWS RELEASE: Roanoke, Va., (December 15, 2020) – After decades of serving the community, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia (BBBS) will close effective January 31, 2021. Despite the unfortunate closure, Total Action for Progress (TAP) has graciously agreed to assume care of the BBBS mentoring program. TAP will facilitate the program’s 50 current matches in an effort to ensure those children in the Roanoke Valley continue to receive services and mentoring. TAP is also assuming care of the after school tutoring program, outdoor adventures, and in-school mentoring programs...

On Thursday night, community leaders gathered in downtown Roanoke for peace and prayer this holiday season and beyond.