By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
Jan. 15, 2009
Summary: Blacksburg’s vice mayor was the only vote cast in favor of razing the old Taylor’s Frames & Things.
BLACKSBURG — The old Taylor’s Frames & Things building on Main Street will remain standing — for now.
On a 4-1 vote, Blacksburg Town Council upheld a previous Historic Design Review [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
Jan. 16, 2009
Summary: The issue over the First & Main shopping center is linked to a larger question about changes in local land-use rules.
RICHMOND — Three years of contentious public debate and legal wrangling about Blacksburg’s First & Main shopping center and a proposed big-box store widely thought to be [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
Dec. 5, 2008
Summary: The town council is set to sign off on a resolution Tuesday.
BLACKSBURG — Town council is expected to vote Tuesday on a resolution to approve one of the most aggressive greenhouse gas emissions targets to be set by any government agency in the United States.
“We adopt [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
Oct. 5, 2008
Summary: Blacksburg officials have started to put away money in hopes of breaking ground on a new rescue squad building within five years at an estimated cost of $4.8 million.
BLACKSBURG — The dispatcher’s voice echoed through the Progress Street station just before 5 a.m.
“Blacksburg rescue, respond to a fire [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
Oct. 10, 2008
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WAKE FOREST — Esther Jones’s family history was all but hewn from the rugged coal faces deep inside Brush Mountain.
Born into a mining family in Wake Forest in 1920 and married for 43 years to a coal mine operator, Jones is sought [...]