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Bees and other pollinators ensure the survival of 90% of flowering plants and one in three bites of food we eat depends on them. On May 12 Roanoke will join a half dozen other cities in Virginia to celebrate the insect and pledge to work toward its survival.
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Roanoke is getting a boost of federal money to replace a problem bridge.
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Governor Glenn Youngkin stopped at a Roanoke elementary school Monday to sign several bills. The bills are designed to help students and adults with disabilities.
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Doctor Cynthia Morrow, director of the Roanoke City-Alleghany Health District, says a lot has changed since those early days of the pandemic.
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Parents who have children with a disability often struggle to find the right type of therapy to help their kids. Sometimes, just a few weeks of intensive therapy can help children and their parents go on to make more progress at home. That’s what happened for two sisters with a rare neurological condition. They each traveled with their family from Pittsburgh, where they live, to Roanoke to work with therapists at the neuromotor clinic at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.
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In the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s, vital parts of Roanoke’s historically Black Gainsboro neighborhood were ripped out and replaced with infrastructure projects like Interstate 581 and the Roanoke Civic Center.
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Bob Wilkin was presented with his father’s Congressional Medal of Honor when he was just seven years old. But, he lost touch with it over the years.
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The stretch through Botetourt and Craig Counties uses existing rail beds and shared roadways
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Trust House was founded in 1970 as an emergency shelter and crisis hotline
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The Western Virginia Water Authority conducted long-term testing from October to December in a number of locations on the Roanoke River and its branches near Elliston in Montgomery County.