From the WFIR News room this is your Culture Calendar – With a look at some of the local events coming up this weekend and in the near future. Sponsored by the Roanoke Cultural Endowment. The post New art at Hollins, Mockingbird’s last week at MMT and Arsenic opens at the Bear first appeared on…… Continue Reading
A ribbon cutting yesterday at an event rental space that’s two thirds of the way through re-imagining a building where they used to fix cars. The story from WFIR’s Gene Marrano: The post Event center in northwest Roanoke may be a “tipping point” first appeared on News/Talk 960-AM & FM-107.3 WFIR.… Continue Reading
Iran’s largely unsuccessful missile attack on Israel is just the latest in a series of escalations in the Middle East dating back to the Hamas assault in Israel almost a year ago. Ed Lynch, political science department chair at Hollins University, on how all of this might impact the Presidential election here. Lynch joined us…… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance is available to the Commonwealth of Virginia to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by Tropical Storm Helene from Sept. 25, 2024, and continuing. The President’s action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Giles, Grayson, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington and Wythe counties and the independent…… Continue Reading
Residents of Southwest Virginia are coming together to support local communities affected by recent storms and flooding. The #SouthwestVAStrong Food & Water Drive will take place this Thursday, October 3, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Salem Civic Center parking lot. Several counties in the region, including the New River Valley, have been…… Continue Reading
A total of $400,000 dollars over two years has been committed by the Roanoke Economic Development Authority, or EDA, for their new Business Equipment Incentive Program to increase business growth in the City of Roanoke. WFIR’s Alex Torres has details: The post Roanoke EDA commits $400,000 to Business Equipment Incentive Program first appeared on News/Talk…… Continue Reading
Earlier this month the Roanoke City School Board extended Superintendent Dr. Verletta White’s contract. As Denise Allen Membreno reports the extension as made Dr. White reflect on what her administration has already accomplished. Dr. Verletta White says Roanoke City Public Schools has made a lot of progress in her first four years but she still…… Continue Reading
From The American Red Cross – Western North Carolina was hit extremely hard by Helene. Search and rescue operations remain underway, and supplies are being flown in by air to small mountain towns that are cut off from everything by conditions like these downed trees in the Boone area making many roads impassable. September 29,…… Continue Reading
1 of 4 | Elsie Hicks looks at the destruction of the home she has lived in for 25 years, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Read More 2 of 4 | Jonah Wark, right, kisses his wife Sara Martin outside their flood-damaged home on the Pigeon River…… Continue Reading
A Jim Crow-era segregated school for African American children in Pulaski known then as the Calfee Training School that shut its doors 58 years ago is coming back to life as a cultural and community center, beginning with a ribbon cutting tomorrow. More from WFIR’s Gene Marrano: The post Repurposed Calfee Center holds open…… Continue Reading