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Pictured (L-R) are Subway franchisee Scott Hillyard, employee Kassie Wright, franchisee Melanie Morris.Kassie Wright, a local Subway employee, used her...

The first African-American faculty of Christiansburg Institute. (photo courtesy of Montgomery Museum of Art and History)The son of former slaves,...

Blacksburg second-grader Elizabeth Black recently competed against hundreds of girls in the National American Miss Pageant in California. She finished...

 Carilion New River Valley Medical Center employees wear face shields provided by Virginia Tech. From left to right, they are...

Jonathan Boreyko and Brook Kennedy inspect a fog harp at Kentland Farm. Photo by Peter Means for Virginia Tech.What do...

Virginia governor Ralph Northam Thursday presented the “Forward Virginia” blueprint, which will help guide the commonwealth on when to safely...

Even during the lockdown, the staff of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce (L-R Executive Director Sharon Scott; Jenna Phillips,...

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Friday invoked his statutory authority to postpone the May general and special elections by two weeks,...

Registered nurse Amanda Cruise, the director of nursing for the Showalter Center in Blacksburg, prepares resident medications. Blackburg’s Warm Hearth...

Due to the COVID-19 crisis the YMCA at Virginia Tech, along with YMCAs across the country, cancelled Healthy Kids Day...