By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
May 17, 2009
Summary: Religious leaders are embracing new ways to tend to their online flocks.
Welcome to the online church/synagogue/mosque of the 21st century.
Here you can follow congregants’ “tweets” about sermons delivered at Westwinds Community Church by Michigan pastor John Voelz.
Log on to Texas pastor Laura Heikes’ podcast sermons — one [...]

By Tonia Moxley and Shawna Morrison
The Roanoke Times
May 09, 2008
Summary: Officials reopened a section of the trail closed after two men were shot.
PEARISBURG — The Appalachian Trail reopened in Giles County on Thursday, two days after a pair of fishermen were shot and wounded in a crime that hauntingly resembled two gruesome killings committed near [...]

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
Jan. 10, 2009
Summary: Shooting Creek Farm Brewery will not open a tasting room to appease concerns about traffic.
There will be beer.
A compromise struck between the owners of Shooting Creek Farm Brewery and neighbors opposed to its licensing has finally opened the taps for Floyd County’s first commercial microbrewing operation.
If all [...]