Kurt Rheinheimer

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Clown Owns Up, Goes Home

The 42-year editor in chief of this magazine says goodbye.
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By the Decades

Our editor-in-chief reflects on five decades of local storytelling and cheerleading beloved people and businesses.
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From the Archives: The Opening of Center in the Square

Roanoke was born in 1882, and grandly celebrated its centennial in 1982. But it was not until 1983 — at the end of its hundred and first year — that Roanoke found its cultural heart.
Several Roanoker magazine covers float in the air, including Top Docs 2019 and A New Era Is Dawning.

45 Years in 9 Sets of Faces

Editor-in-Chief Kurt Rheinheimer takes a look back at 45 years of The Roanoker and its subjects.
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34 – OK, 35 – Random Notes from The Roanoker

Editor Kurt Rheinheimer reflects on three and a half decades of our magazine with some of his favorite pieces and quotes.
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The Picnic Table

Here in this issue celebrating home and marriage, an inexpensive old table may represent the best of both.
Concrete steps with metal handrails lead down a rocky bank into a river, where a person in waders stands in the water.

Carilion’s Long Shadow…or is it Light?

Nowhere in the Roanoke Valley is change more apparent than within the sightlines from the 14th floor of Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
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One Couple’s Year of Roanoke Dining

Choices are limited only slightly by choosing to travel to and from dining rooms solely on foot or on bicycles.
A smiling bearded man in a tan cap and blue shirt, wearing a backpack, stands on a wooded trail.

Ridgerunner

Matt Allenbaugh has been on duty out on the Roanoke area’s most-used sections of the Appalachian Trail only since April. The 2005 thru-hiker has been out on trails far longer.
A climber in a pink shirt and gray patterned shorts scales a large boulder in a wooded area.

Wait, Problems?

For the unenlightened, “problems” are not that at all—they’re places where the likes of Aaron Parlier have mapped out how to climb a boulder.

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