Starting with an event next month, Fleet Feet Roanoke will start distributing new running shoes (and socks) to as many as 8000 children in the Roanoke City Public School system identified as economically disadvantaged. They’ve raised $55,000 of the $240,000 needed to purchase those shoes at a deep discount from the manufacturers. See the Fleet…… Continue Reading
A state watchdog agency tells lawmakers that the Virginia Employment Commission is still answering just a small number of incoming calls from residents seeking unemployment assistance — and the VEC has been something less than forthright in saying it has significantly increased staffing to handle the flood of pandemic-related unemployment claims. WFIR’s Evan Jones has…… Continue Reading
Carilion Clinic is participating in a nationwide study aimed at helping people diagnosed with major depression – and who have been difficult to successfully treat for it. It involves Vagus Nerve Stimulation in which a device the size of a flash drive is surgically implanted in a chest wall and then transmits impulses to a…… Continue Reading
Not ALL the mask mandates are gone – and there’s a possibility the Delta variant could lead to localized mandates if not enough people get the COVID vaccine. More from WFIR’s Gene Marrano: 7-7 Morrow Wrap#1 The post Could Delta variant could lead to mask mandates where vax rates are low? first appeared on News/Talk…… Continue Reading
A Roanoke grand jury has indicted Roanoke City Councilman Robert Jeffrey, Jr. on two counts of felony embezzlement. Commonwealth’s Attorney Don Caldwell says the investigation began with a complaint from the Northwest Neighborhood Environmental Organization — and the amount involved is “substantially above” the $1,000 felony threshold. The alleged embezzlement covers the period from May…… Continue Reading
Blacksburg has a disc golf champion. James Conrad hit a curling 247 foot shot on the final hole of the Pro World Championships in Utah last weekend – which he won in a playoff: WPLY-MIN The post Blacksburg has world Disc Golf champion; Schwarber will head to All Star Game first appeared on News/Talk 960-AM…… Continue Reading
80’s star rocker Billy Idol is coming to Roanoke’s Elmwood Park on September 24 as part of the Bud Light Vinyl Vault concert series. Idol – who later had a cameo in an Adam Sandler movie – The Wedding Singer – was an early architect of the pop-punk rock sound. His hit songs include “Dancing…… Continue Reading
After keeping the doors open for much of the past year by showing vintage Hollywood films on weekends, the historic Grandin Theatre gets ready for first-run features again. The curtain comes up on that return to normalcy this Friday, as WFIR’s Gene Marrano reports: 7-6 Grandin Wrap#2-WEB Black Widow poster Disney/Marvel Studios The post Grandin…… Continue Reading
NEWS RELEASE: At 7:28 p.m. on Monday (July 5), Virginia State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash in the 400 block of Trents Store Ln [in the Stuart area.]. A 2013 Polaris ATV was traveling north in the roadway when it had a mechanical failure, ran off the left side of the road, overcorrected and…… Continue Reading
NEWS RELEASE: At 1:29 p.m. on Thursday (July 1), Virginia State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash on Big Stoney Creek Rd just north of Norcross Rd. A 2015 Ford F-250 was traveling north when it ran off the left side of the road and struck a tree. The driver, David J. Mitchell, 59, of Christiansburg,…… Continue Reading