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Motor Mile Speedway & Dragway Signs Deal with Rusty Wallace Racing Experience

Primes Venue for Future Growth and Boosts Racing and Entertainment Offerings In a strategic multi-year agreement, Motor Mile Speedway &…

NCAA announces 15 Division III championships awarded to the area in the next four years

Mount Union won the last Stagg Bowl held in Salem in 2017. [PHOTO: Brian Hoffman] The…

Pandemic potpourri

Column by Brian Hoffman - Sports Editor It’s now 230 AG, or 230 days “After (Rudy) Gobert” tested positive for…

Botetourt County’s Mark Harrison offers program to make kids stronger, faster

James River junior Dakota Gilliam learns good form from Mark Harrison.

Mark Harrison works with Lord Botetourt’s Andrew Carter (left) and Read Mountain’s Preston Carter (right).

Harrison works with area youth.

Young athletes lift weights at the Roanoke Area Sports Youth Clinic. [PHOTOS: Brian Hoffman]

Former Lord Botetourt assistant football coach Mark Harrison, who is now the head coach at Craig County…

Botetourt County athletic directors working on COVID sports schedules

If the governor says its okay, practices for high school winter sports in Virginia are just a month and a…

Obits

RUCKER, Sherry L.

Sherry Lynn Rucker of Buchanan was Born November 21, 1959 in Roanoke. Sherry passed away peacefully at her home on…

RADER, Tony M.

HUMBERT, Barbara J.

POFF, Jason Michael

CRAWFORD, Larry Lewis, Sr.

CONTI, Dr. Eugene