Roxy Todd
New River Valley Bureau ChiefRoxy Todd is Radio IQ's New River Valley Bureau Chief. She previously worked for West Virginia Public Broadcasting, where she was a reporter and producer for Inside Appalachia, WVPB’s weekly podcast and radio show heard on stations across central Appalachia. She won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for a story on the demands faced by small farmers in Appalachia. She also won a National PMJA Award for her story about the history of John Denver's song "Country Roads." Roxy's stories, ranging in topics from food deserts to foster care, have aired on NPR and Marketplace. Before working for WVPB, Roxy worked for Allegheny Mountain Radio in West Virginia as an AmeriCorps VISTA, where she created a multi-media project and radio series called “Traveling 219,” about history, culture and foodways along US Route 219. That project won a national award from the Association for State and Local History.
Roxy lives in Pulaski, Virginia with her husband, daughter, dog and cat.
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Vegg Inc., a company in Pulaski, recently celebrated the harvesting of their first lettuce, which was grown using an innovative technology that uses recycled carbon.
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The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has issued fines to the Mountain Valley Pipeline for environmental violations. The fines total $34,000 for 29 different violations along the pipeline construction route through Virginia.
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Genealogist Karice Luck-Brimmer has spent decades researching her family’s history and uncovering other stories from the African American community in Danville. She’ll be a featured guest Thursday March 28th at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg — part of an event sponsored by the Christiansburg Institute to honor women’s history month.
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State lawmakers included $26.5 million in their two-year budget proposal to help the city of Bristol clean up its landfill.
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March is traditionally the time when maple syrup is boiled down and bottled, but with climate change, some farmers in Virginia have noticed an earlier season the past several years.
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A new study estimates that one in 50 people living in a coastal city could experience significance flooding by 2050. This is more than had earlier been predicted because it combines sea level rise predictions with another problem—sinking land.
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The company building the Mountain Valley Pipeline, Equitrans Midstream Corporation, announced Monday they are merging with EQT, the company that originally created that spin-off company, and says they’re still on track to begin running gas through the pipeline by June. But some residents along the route in Virginia worry their concerns about pollution and safety aren’t being heard.
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A group of residents in Russell County is fighting a proposal to build a private landfill on a former coal site. The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has now joined them in opposing the landfill.
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A national dance group was in Blacksburg recently, and before their main performance at the Moss Arts Center they made a stop at a retirement community to teach dance to people with Parkinson’s Disease.
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Students applying to most colleges and universities in Virginia have until March 1 to fill out the federal application for financial aid, known as FAFSA, if they want to be considered in the priority category. But changes and delays at the federal level are throwing a wrench into the entire process.