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Why Starbucks is Evil, and Other Reasons to Patronize Independent Establishments

This is why I love independent theaters. And restaurants, and bookstores, and coffee shops.

Public Art: A Valley Treasure

It’s free, it’s enlightening and it’s a growing part of the Roanoke Valley experience. And all you have to do is show up and take a look.

From The Publisher: Spend Local, Give Local

Before you go to Zappos.com for new sneakers, consider how local businesses like Fleet Feet Sports are impacting our community for the better.

Katie’s Place Farm: Helping Disadvantaged Adults Lead (Extra)ordinary Lives

The dream of a place where adults with significant disabilities can come to build friendships and participate in an active community is steadily becoming a reality.

Go Fly a Kite!

It’s not about knotted and crossed string, nor about crumpled kites torn by wind. It’s about . . . calzones!

Helping Hands: The Advancement Foundation & Charity Cottage Thrift Store

Nonprofits helping nonprofits: How one organization is calling the community to action in the fight against poverty.

Roanoke County Board of Supervisors

All spring the board wrestled with the budget. Then came the dark affair and the Monroe affair and the Foster affair. By mid-June each new day was greeted with front-page headlines announcing the board’s latest surprise.

Dying For Love- Battered Women, Shattered Lives

He’s her heart and soul. And, blind to warning signs, she does everything to make him happy. Then one day, after she’s fixed his favorite dinner, he takes two bites of macaroni, knocks dishes to the floor and screams that she didn’t add enough cheese

A Tale of Two Beaches, and Six Women

My mother was standing in a hotel room in Virginia Beach a few weeks ago, snapping open a small box and pulling out a tangle of necklace, when a thin gold band tumbled out with it. She saw it and laughed. My sister Meg saw

The Roanoker Talks to Sally Mann

The New York Times Magazine editor calls Sally Mann two or three times a year offering assignments. Jodi Foster, Al Gore, a dead body in Tennessee. “And I have to turn her down,” says Mann. “I don’t do editorial work.”

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Why Starbucks is Evil, and Other Reasons to Patronize Independent Establishments

This is why I love independent theaters. And restaurants, and bookstores, and coffee shops.

Public Art: A Valley Treasure

It’s free, it’s enlightening and it’s a growing part of the Roanoke Valley experience. And all you have to do is show up and take a look.
Fleet Feet

From The Publisher: Spend Local, Give Local

Before you go to Zappos.com for new sneakers, consider how local businesses like Fleet Feet Sports are impacting our community for the better.
Katies Place

Katie’s Place Farm: Helping Disadvantaged Adults Lead (Extra)ordinary Lives

The dream of a place where adults with significant disabilities can come to build friendships and participate in an active community is steadily becoming a reality.
Fly a Kite

Go Fly a Kite!

It’s not about knotted and crossed string, nor about crumpled kites torn by wind. It’s about . . . calzones!
Anne Meador (left) says Annette Patterson (right) and The Advancement Foundation changed her life.

Helping Hands: The Advancement Foundation & Charity Cottage Thrift Store

Nonprofits helping nonprofits: How one organization is calling the community to action in the fight against poverty.
Supervisors Chairman Bob Myers: “There’s times in government..that you have to make judgements that’s not always popular with everybody.”

Roanoke County Board of Supervisors

All spring the board wrestled with the budget. Then came the dark affair and the Monroe affair and the Foster affair. By mid-June each new day was greeted with front-page headlines announcing the board’s latest surprise.

Dying For Love- Battered Women, Shattered Lives

He’s her heart and soul. And, blind to warning signs, she does everything to make him happy. Then one day, after she’s fixed his favorite dinner, he takes two bites of macaroni, knocks dishes to the floor and screams that she didn’t add enough cheese

A Tale of Two Beaches, and Six Women

My mother was standing in a hotel room in Virginia Beach a few weeks ago, snapping open a small box and pulling out a tangle of necklace, when a thin gold band tumbled out with it. She saw it and laughed. My sister Meg saw it and laughed.

The Roanoker Talks to Sally Mann

The New York Times Magazine editor calls Sally Mann two or three times a year offering assignments. Jodi Foster, Al Gore, a dead body in Tennessee. “And I have to turn her down,” says Mann. “I don’t do editorial work.”
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