1. Old Crow Medicine Show sang my favorite song about the “Down Home Girl” who came right off Maggie’s Farm … Well I swear your perfume, baby, is made out of turnip greens … Every time I kiss you girl, it tastes like pork and beans … (Video HERE .) (more…)

A new course in sports, entertainment, and recreation marketing (MKT 209) will begin Aug. 25 at New River Community College’s NRV Mall site in Christiansburg. The class will be held Wednesdays from 3 to 6 p.m. (more…)

Jim Stroup of Virginia Tech’s Office of University Relations was named photographer of the year by the University Photographers’ Association of America (UPAA).At the annual UPAA symposium in June, Stroup also won the Nikon Shoot Out Competition and the Monthly Image Competition Award, making him the first photographer to win all three major awards in one year. (more…)

Bridget Sayles has been named associate vice president for finance at New River Community College.

Sayles has been serving as NRCC’s business office manager, and according to vice president for finance and technology John Van Hemert, has “taken on increased responsibility in overseeing an operation that has drawn well-deserved praise for efficiency and she has become a central point of knowledge for the college’s managers.” (more…)

At 8:30 a.m. today an apartment building manager located a suspicious device in the 500 block of Downey Street in Radford

City of Radford Police were contacted and determined it to be a potential improvised explosive device. Virginia state police bomb technicians responded and disrupted the device. (more…)

On Saturday July 17, 40 artists participated in the annual Art at the Market event hosted by Downtown Blacksburg, Inc. Coupled with the Breakfast at the Farmers Market, this event of more than 25 years drew crowds of art and food lovers. (more…)