Friday, May 17, 2013
Dignitaries and volunteers were among the 75 or so guests at the ribbon cutting Thursday for the 7000 square foot Harrison Museum of African American Culture now relocated to the Center in the Square. The Square will have its grand opening on Saturday May 18. With scissors in hand Mayor David Bowers said “We have [...]
Thursday, May 16, 2013
On Thursday, City of Roanoke held a press conference in Jackson Park to launch Parks and Arts, a new program developed to complement its Neighborhood Arts Initiative which fosters community interaction with innovative arts programming. The Parks and Arts Program emphasizes the city’s Arts and Cultural Plan goal to bring performing and visual arts directly to neighborhoods. The program is [...]
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
On June 4 at 6:00 p.m. at Northside High School the public has the opportunity to review the program and provide input, which will be taken into the consideration by the CTB before the final program is adopted in June. The FY 2014-2019 program will go into effect July 1, 2013. “This new funding also [...]
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Kissito Healthcare, Inc. purchased Hawthorne Towers in Roanoke County for $1.2 million. There are 144 units in need of repair. Only about 60 of the units are occupied he said. To avoid a conflict of interest Trinkle abstained from the council vote to approve the $12 million of bonds issued by the Economic Development Authority [...]
Monday, April 1, 2013
Created six years ago to celebrate art and artists around the fringes, the Marginal Arts Festival held on the last long weekend in March didn’t disappoint. There were downtown tours of art galleries defunct and still standing, poetry readings where the words to one piece was simply the word “rice” over and over again, a [...]
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
In a press release Roanoke’s Community High School of Arts and Academics’ Board of Trustees announced that they have unanimously voted to drop the tuition for 2013-14 from $10,200 to $5,000 per student. In addition to this reduction, CHS will continue to have ample financial aid reserves, according to Josh Chapman, Academic Director. Community High [...]
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Jim Rollings, executive director of the Science Museum of Western Virginia announced that on March 15 they closed their temporary Tanglewood Mall location as they begin the move back to the renovated Center in the Square. A Grand Reopening is scheduled to take place on May 18. What they need now is almost $600,000 to [...]
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Where is the Tea Party when you need them. They should be up in arms over such government waste. It is a UN Agenda 21 conspiracy after all. Call AG Ken Cuccinelli about this. He is an expert on government seals and artistic decency. Attorney General Cuccinelli will stop using “virtuous” label pin I suspect [...]
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Monday, February 25, 2013
The vote is in and there goes the neighborhood said Amy Cosner resident and secretary of the Dorchester Court Neighborhood Watch Association in her op-ed. The Dorchester and Grandview Court neighbors feel betrayed and deceived. They were sold a bill of goods in March of 2011 when three council members visited the Dorchester Court neighborhood [...]
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Friday, February 22, 2013
February 22, 2013 – ROANOKE, VIRGINIA – The Virginia Museum of Transportation announced today that it is studying the feasibility of returning the iconic Norfolk & Western Class J 611 Steam locomotive to operating condition. “The Class J 611 locomotive embodies both beauty and power,” says Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, Jr., executive director of the Virginia [...]
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Updated with statement from Councilman Sherman Lea in italic. The vote was 4-3 Tuesday evening leaving Dorchester and Grandview neighbors disappointed that the now vacant Huff Lane school will be rezoned to Commercial Large Scale (CLS) to accommodate two hotels and a restaurant. It’s not quite final. The measure needed 5 votes to pass on [...]
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Countryside (where’s the park?), Dorchester Court (Huff Lane school – wasn’t that part of their neighborhood?) and Evans Spring (good luck to them and their future). All these are neighborhoods in Northwest that the city is drooling over for tax revenue. The city takes from Northwest and gives to downtown. Neighborhoods will take a back [...]
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