Kurt Rheinheimer
The 42-year editor in chief of this magazine says goodbye.
Our editor-in-chief reflects on five decades of local storytelling and cheerleading beloved people and businesses.
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.
Editor-in-Chief Kurt Rheinheimer takes a look back at 45 years of The Roanoker and its subjects.
Editor Kurt Rheinheimer reflects on three and a half decades of our magazine with some of his favorite pieces and quotes.
Here in this issue celebrating home and marriage, an inexpensive old table may represent the best of both.
Nowhere in the Roanoke Valley is change more apparent than within the sightlines from the 14th floor of Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Choices are limited only slightly by choosing to travel to and from dining rooms solely on foot or on bicycles.
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.
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.

