One glance into its storefront window, which looks out across Main Street, is all it takes to know without a shred of doubt: Revelation Reptiles is not your average pet store. Instead of the standard puppies, rabbits, gerbils, rats and guinea pigs, the cages and terrariums that line the walls of the small shop are [...]

The Montgomery County School Board passed its $94,688,186 budget for Fiscal Year 2013-14 at Tuesday night’s meeting. Board member Drema Foster voted against the proposed budget, citing she didn’t agree with the middle school schedule change. The rest of the board voted yes. “I’m really pleased that we can give our increase this year to [...]

CRAIG COUNTY, VA – Vandalism at the Potts Slope Shooting Range in Craig County has caused USDA Forest Service officials to close the range temporarily until May 24. The temporary closing was announced today, May 13, after USDA Forest Service officials found the restroom and the shelter at the range were vandalized last week. Eastern [...]

Young artists from Craig County High School and Craig County Middle School will show and sell their artwork at the CCHS and CCMS Art Show 2013 on Tuesday, May 28, in the CCHS Art Gallery. All of the sale proceeds will go to the young artists. Admission is free. Donations will be accepted. The show [...]

SALEM – Anita Hassell kept up her smile as she talked about what how two special nurses helped her through the final days of her husband, Joe’s, life. But there were few dry eyes in the LewisGale Medical Center’s Education Center Auditorium that day, and one of the two women Hassell was honoring couldn’t help [...]

SALEM – The 126 graduates who processed across the arena floor in the Salem Civic Center made history May 3, when they became the first classes to graduate from American National University. Until March, the Roanoke Valley Campus in Salem was known as National College, before it earned university status for its diverse degree offerings [...]

Terry L. Austin of Buchanan won the Republican Party nomination to run for the 19th District House of Delegates seat in the November General Election. Austin easily defeated three other candidates for the party nomination in a “firehouse primary” Tuesday, May 7 by collecting 44.5 percent of the 1,770 votes cast in Botetourt, Alleghany and [...]

NEW CASTLE – A giant kangaroo, a famous gobbler and the Craig County Rocket Dog helped get third, fourth and fifth-graders at McCleary Elementary on May 3 excited about upcoming Standard of Learning tests they will take this week. Earlier last week across the mountain, Mugsy, the Salem Red Sox Baseball mascot was doing the [...]

SALEM – Drivers and passengers who don’t wear their seat belts may find themselves with a traffic ticket. The Salem Police Department announced today, May 8, that its officers will be participating in the 2013 “Click It or Ticket” mobilization campaign that is being conducted statewide in Virginia from May 20 – June 2. In [...]

NEW CASTLE – On what should have been one of the happiest evenings of their lives, five bloodied and crying Craig County High School students – and three others who were far too still – were extricated from crushed cars that had been carrying them to their prom moments before. One of the cars had [...]