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
August 29, 2008
Summary: Anthony Lucas had been accused of firing a pistol into a Tech football player’s apartment.
CHRISTIANSBURG — Anthony Jobair Lucas smiled big for the first time in two days Thursday when a Montgomery County jury found him not guilty of firing a gun into Victor “Macho” Harris’ [...]

August 20, 2008
By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
Summary: For the next few weeks, Blacksburg police will focus on education instead of punishment.
BLACKSBURG — Forget the romantic photos of windswept babes with coifed hair motoring around Europe on curvaceous Vespas. Beginning in October, moped riders in Blacksburg have two choices: helmet hair or a $50 [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
August 13, 2008
Summary: Four neighbors and a pastor have contested the licensing of Shooting Creek Farm Brewery.
Pour a pint and listen to the story of Shooting Creek Farm Brewery, some concerned neighbors and the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Ray Jones and Brett Nichols had hoped this summer to [...]