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Tips on Not Eating Everything in Your Fridge

Avoid eating everything in your fridge while working from home with a few easy tips.
Pavlova

You Got This – Dessert!

With ingredients probably already in your pantry, try this sweet dessert that's perfect for making at home - and even with the kids!
Marj Easterling in her screen-printing room.

An Initiative to Help in a Time of Crisis

Big Lick Screen Printing raises money for local businesses through a T-shirt fundraising initiative.
Aerial view of a large beige single-story building with a flat roof, surrounded by parked cars and mountains.

Carilion Accepting Equipment Donations

Carilion is seeking help from community organizations, corporations and families for donations of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in anticipation of the Coronavirus emergency.
Wasena neighborhood, March 2020

Support Local Even in Uncertain Times

Creative ways to buy from small businesses while social distancing.
Bryan Hancock

Roanoke According to … Bryan Hancock

In each installment of our blog series, you’ll meet a new face who’ll share their spin on the Star City – their favorite places to eat, drink, mix, mingle or get inspired. Meet Bryan Hancock.
A glass of iced lemonade with lemon slices beside a glass pitcher, lemons, a shallow bowl, and a bouquet of daffodils.

Lovin’ Southern…Lemonade

This recipe for "Not Your Grandma's Lemonade" is delightfully refreshing, just in time for spring sunshine.
Colorized electron microscope image of round, spiky coronavirus particles on a yellow and red background.

LewisGale Reacts to Coronavirus

LewisGale Regional Health System has issued a statement of readiness regarding the Coronavirus.
Virginia Children's Theatre 2020-2021 season banner showing The Secret Garden, The Wizard of Oz, Junie B. Jones, and more shows.

RCT to VCT: New Name, Mission

Roanoke Children's Theatre will soon become Virginia Children's Theatre.

Departments

The Beaver Dam Sunflower Festival attracts about 20,000 visitors annually — a boon to the local economy.
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Bloom Town

Flower farms are finding new ways to keep our community beautiful.

A person kneels and taps a dark ceramic floor tile into ridged gray adhesive with a rubber mallet, with overlaid text "Ask the Home Experts.
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Ask the Experts: Homes

Local homes experts tackle your questions on finances, building and remodeling and more.