Food After Being Served, Roanoke Restaurants Settle Tax Bills Recent crackdowns on Roanoke restaurateurs have resulted in an influx of owed taxes to the city, plea deals and dropped criminal charges.
City Hall Roanoke To Defend Against 2 Lawsuits Alleging Toxic Workplace Under Ex-Leaders The lawsuits could shed further light on a drama that gripped Roanoke city hall last year, when claims of a toxic workplace preceded the city manager’s resignation.
Ramblings Ramblings: Roanoke Mayoral Recount Costs Taxpayers; Council Appointee Undecided; School Board Member Picked What are Ramblings? Ramblings are a collection of short items that have caught our attention for one reason or another.
Sponsored Post Market on Melrose Opens, Ending Decades-Long Food Desert in Northwest Roanoke The grocery store, operated by Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, represents the first phase of the larger Melrose Plaza development project.
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Happenings Happenings: The Only Roanoke Events Calendar You’ll Ever Need. Week of 2/5 to 2/12. We scoured 30 disparate community calendars (yes, 30) so you didn’t have to.
Development Tenants Evicted from Riverdale As Southeast Roanoke Community Takes Shape Developer Ed Walker has stripped the former Roanoke Industrial Center of junk cars, scrap, chemicals, waste and unwanted tenants.
Politics Appointee to Roanoke City Council To Determine Fate of Single-Family Zoning Reforms Battle lines are being drawn over who will fill the remaining two years of Roanoke Mayor Joe Cobb’s vacant City Council seat.
Poetry The Science of Falling Things Outside, the yard is gap-toothed. It’s like there’s been / a war: Oaks choke the yard with limbs askew.
Happenings Happenings: The Only Roanoke Events Calendar You’ll Ever Need. Week of 1/29 to 2/5. We scoured 30 disparate community calendars (yes, 30) so you didn’t have to.
City Hall Roanoke Aims To Seize, Sell Downtown Parking Garage Plagued By Tax, Code Issues The parking garage beside the Amtrak platform has been closed since April, when city officials deemed the structure unsafe.
City Hall 'Council Isn't Immune': Property Values Are Rising. Here's How Much Elected Leaders' Homes Went Up. Roanoke property owners are seeing an average 8 percent increase in their real estate tax bills this year, a historically high but downward-trending assessment.
Ramblings Ramblings: Roanoke's Electric Buses Arrive; 11 Apply for City Council Vacancy; Industrial Sites Greenlit as Urban Centers What are Ramblings? Ramblings are a collection of short items that have caught our attention for one reason or another.
Happenings Happenings: The Only Roanoke Events Calendar You’ll Ever Need. Week of 1/22 to 1/29. We scoured 30 disparate community calendars (yes, 30) so you didn’t have to.
Outdoors Roanoke Valley Greenway Coordinator Resigns, Saying He Felt Stymied by Governments “I’ve gotten kind of frustrated by the level of locality cooperation,” Frank Maguire, who's been in the role since 2021, said.
Outdoors Mill Mountain Trails To Expand Significantly with First Professional Build, Plans Show Four miles of new pathways are planned to get underway this spring on Mill Mountain, which has at least 10 miles of trails.
Ramblings Ramblings: New Roanoke City Manager Sworn In; White-Boyd, Powers Vie for Council Vacancy; Hotel Roanoke Opens Spa What are Ramblings? Ramblings are a collection of short items that have caught our attention for one reason or another.
Happenings Happenings: The Only Roanoke Events Calendar You’ll Ever Need. Week of 1/15 to 1/22. We scoured 30 disparate community calendars (yes, 30) so you didn’t have to.
Business A Tale of Two Malls: Valley View and Tanglewood Plot Routes To Stay Alive in the Age of Amazon This is the story of two malls and their divergent approaches to dealing with the seismic changes in shopping habits in the 21st century.
Housing Affordable Housing Complex Proposed For Rescue Mission Land in Southeast Roanoke Developers propose building a 155-unit apartment complex at the entry of Southeast Roanoke from downtown.
Letter Letter From the Editor: We're Hiring a Managing Editor To Advance Our Journalism This journalist will be a critical member of our team, overseeing and reporting journalism that informs the community and holds the powerful accountable.