Recent Hollins University graduate Hannah Doss (Bachelor’s in Fine Arts) used to draw horses while growing up in Franklin County. Lately, the human form, mostly female, has grabbed her attention, and Doss is now heading to London this fall for postgraduate study at London Metropolitan University. Doss will also intern at a foundry called The [...]
Most people don’t know the definition of “Permaculture,” but area activist Ron McCorkle believes that we need it more than we know. He has formed the Roanoke Permaculture Education Guild to help his home city become more sustainable in its culture. He is offering classes locally to share his knowledge. Ted Butchart ND, founding board [...]
Roanoke Valley Pen Women member and Roanoke Star Sentinel contributor Gail Lambert has won Honorable Mention in the 2010 Leapfrog Fiction Contest. Her story, “Aesop: The Storyteller,” is set in the ancient Greek world of slaves, sailors, merchants, wars and gods — all of which contribute to the slave boy Aesop’s eventual fame as the [...]
Troy McGeorge, a member of the selection committee that helped choose William Fleming’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Class of 2010, recalls what may have been the heyday of Colonels athletics: at one point in the 1950s the captains of the football, men’s basketball and track teams all were Fleming graduates. “We had three different committees [...]
Can’t get enough of the Red Sox, now that Salem’s Class A baseball club is owned by the American League’s fabled Boston Red Sox? Try the new made-to-scale replica of historic Fenway Park’s outfield wall, named “Scotts Mini Fenway.” The Scotts lawn care folks have partnered with the local club to build a wiffle ball [...]
Dent McSkimming was a beat reporter for the St. Louis Star while still in high school. He served in World War 1, came home and wrote for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, studied for one year at Stanford, spent some time in Mexico City writing for an English-language newspaper, and in World War 2 served in [...]
In the late 19th-century, Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a frantic orchestral interlude, “Flight of the Bumblebee,” for his four-act opera called The Tale of Tsar Saltan. In the story, a magical swan changes a prince into a bumblebee so that he can fly away to visit his father. Such flights of fancy seem to happen [...]
Riders from all over Virginia competed this past Monday during “Local Day” at the Roanoke Valley Horse Show, going on all week, at the Salem Civic Center. Humans and horses braved the 90-plus degree weather to win the championship ribbons in a variety of classes. While some riders competed, others washed their horses or braided [...]
Two days after felony charges were dropped against Gene T. Jones, Jr. on June 14 in Norfolk General District Court, Roanoke City School Superintendent Rita Bishop introduced Jones to about 50 parents. Two days later, on Bishop’s recommendation, the school board confirmed Jones as principal of William Fleming High School. Chairman David Carson, Mae Huff, [...]
Outgoing council member Gwen Mason heard three options for protecting Mill Mountain from development: no easement, a 537 acre easement and a 535 acre easement. Former State Senator Granger MacFarlane would rather see no easement and instead have a Mill Mountain Authority set up similar to the Roanoke Airport Authority where he served for 12 [...]
