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CASEY: Portraits of Roanokers find temporary home in downtown art gallery

6 days ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

This week would be a very good time to drop into the downtown gallery, Art on 1st. As the name suggests, it’s on First Street Southwest, more or less across from Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill. Artist Annie Schultz and photographer Rick Sheridan run the place. They’re business and life partners who found each other during grief counseling after their spouses died. Art on 1st formally launched as a tax-exempt nonprofit June 1. (Some more about that is below).
CASEY: Montgomery County sign-ups skyrocket for Dolly Parton free books program

1 week ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

Around this time last year, I told you about the launch and success of a local reading program inspired by famed entertainer Dolly Parton. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library program in Montgomery County is one of more than 70 local affiliates in Virginia. The famed singer-songwriter launched an organization to encourage kids to read in 1995, as a tribute to her father, a hard-working Tennessean who never learned how.
Imagination Library fundraiser with children

1 week ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

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CASEY: Not much love for Trump in Roanoke's Elmwood Park on Saturday

1 week ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

You probably heard about the $45 million (perhaps more) in taxpayer funds that President Donald Trump spent on a Washington, D.C., parade for the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary Saturday. The big soiree happened to also fall on Trump’s 79th birthday, and plenty of Americans reckoned the timing not at all coincidental. Judging by the photos and video from the nation’s capital, there were plenty of unfilled seats and places to stand along the District of Columbia parade route.
CASEY: Who’s responsible for 2 sewage backups at elderly couple’s Roanoke home?

1 week ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

There are a few things we know for certain about two sewage backups in the finished basement of Charley and Joan Gattusos’ ranch-style house. It is on the 3500 block of Robyn Road, just off Colonial Avenue in Southwest Roanoke. One: The first backup occurred Feb. 15 during 2.7 inches of rainfall that followed a 4-inch snowfall. The second was March 5, also in heavy rain — which can overload a sewage system.
CASEY: Readers bid Matt Gentry adieu – and welcome Dan back to his daily grind

2 weeks ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

Tuesday’s column about the lengthy (47 years) newspaper career of photographer Matt Gentry left something out: you, the readers. Gentry recently retired after 26 years with The Roanoke Times. And after a quarter-century working here, you might expect they would have something to say about him and his departure. They sure did. “I have been fortunate to enjoy Matt Gentry’s work here and in Charlottesville,” wrote Larry Morgan of Roanoke County.
Dan Casey: A fond farewell to an awesome newsman and photographer

2 weeks ago | dailyprogress.com | Dan Casey

Photographer Matt Gentry got his first glimpse of a newspaper career back when he was a teenager at Blacksburg High School in the late 1970s. At age 17, young Gentry served as a substitute carrier for the Roanoke Times, on a home-delivery route normally operated by his close boyhood friend, Tim Ligon. Often, Ligon would persuade Gentry to go with him on regular newspaper deliveries and collections, too. Both lived on dead-end Kennedy Avenue, on Blacksburg’s south side.
CASEY: A fond farewell to an awesome newsman and photographer

2 weeks ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

Photographer Matt Gentry got his first glimpse of a newspaper career back when he was a teenager at Blacksburg High School in the late 1970s. At age 17, young Matt served as a substitute carrier for The Roanoke Times, on a home-delivery route normally operated by his close boyhood friend, Tim Ligon. Often, Ligon would persuade Gentry to go with him on regular newspaper deliveries and collections, too. Both lived on dead-end Kennedy Avenue, on Blacksburg’s south side.
CASEY: Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program celebrates half a century

2 months ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

For some, it’s hard recall back 50 years, so here’s a factoid to jog the memory: In 1975, Steven Spielberg’s horror-suspense movie “Jaws” was the top-grossing Hollywood feature. The Captain and Tennille scored Billboard’s longest-running No. 1 Top 40 hit, “Love Will Keep Us Together.”That year, I was a high school junior living near Annapolis, Maryland. One thing I remember from that winter was the prolonged cold snap.
CASEY: A reader mailbag on Dan's adventures applying for Social Security

2 months ago | roanoke.com | Dan Casey

On April Fool’s Day I recounted a recent adventure that was no joke: Applying for Social Security retirement benefits. Late in March, I did that in person at the local Social Security office on Jefferson Street downtown. The object was to understand how that process works as the Trump administration and the Department of Governmental Efficiency take budget-cutting wrecking balls to a bunch of federal agencies, including Social Security.