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6 days ago | bdtonline.com | Tad Dickens |Dean-Paul Stephens |Lisa Rowan

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6 days ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Tad Dickens |Dean-Paul Stephens |Lisa Rowan

Roanoke, VA (Cardinal News)Going to church. Eating at a restaurant. Getting to work and back home each day. Visiting a friend across town, or family in another city. Buying groceries. Getting on or off the highway at a small town or at one of the area's largest cities.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Grace Mamon |Lisa Rowan

Averett University’s new president says he has a plan for financial recovery that includes repaying the school’s vendors and endowment, and could include further limiting academic options and selling more real estate. But the school’s ongoing financial issues are “not fatal,” and Averett will not close, Thomas Powell said. “As I meet people in town, the first question they ask me is, ‘Are you closing?’” Powell said.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Lisa Rowan

Roanoke is remembering former superintendent Rita Bishop, who led the school division for 13 years and made lasting changes along the way. She died Friday, Roanoke schools confirmed in a statement. Bishop began her career as an English teacher in the 1960s. She joined Roanoke city schools in the mid-1990s and was assistant superintendent of instruction when she left in 2004 for a superintendent role in Pennsylvania. She returned to Roanoke as superintendent in 2007. Bishop retired in 2020.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Lisa Rowan

In early summer 2022, Riley DeHority got a part-time job at Bookholders, a textbook reseller with a storefront on the edge of Virginia Tech’s campus in Blacksburg. DeHority was working on their doctorate in biosystems engineering and had a summer job in a lab but wanted to earn extra money to pay for some car repairs. Soon after accepting the job offer there, DeHority discovered that the pay was below Virginia’s minimum wage.