By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
Oct. 22, 2008
Summary: Many in Blacksburg knew Teddy Henderson as the tall homeless man they passed on the street.
BLACKSBURG — They came Saturday to piece together the story of Teddy Henderson.
Forty people from all over town — ministers, doctors, professors and others crowded into the Blacksburg library community room.
Then came [...]

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 [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
Oct. 10, 2008
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MCCOY — Before 33 people were killed at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, another April day stood out as the deadliest in Montgomery County history.
On April 18, 1946, 11 men from Montgomery and Pulaski counties died in a catastrophic explosion at [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
Sept. 10, 2008
MOUNTAIN LAKE — Across what once was a 50-acre marine playground now stretches a startling vista more reminiscent of Arizona’s Painted Desert than of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
One small pool of water remains on the northwestern end of Mountain Lake’s bed, far out of sight of the hotel that [...]