Local news from the New River Valley

| Sharla Bardin

sharla.bardin@roanoke.com, 381-1669

BLACKSBURG -- So, it's been five long months or more of campaigning, meeting residents, answering questions at forums and coffee gatherings and hoping that voters will see you as the best fit for town council.

| Anna L. Mallory and Sharla Bardin

The Roanoke Times

Increased voter turnout during Blacksburg's first November town council election and the overwhelming decision by Christiansburg residents to move their local races to the fall could cause Radford leaders to look harder at a proposal to do the same.

A Virginia Tech student was able to avoid a felony conviction but was sentenced to spend a year in jail for his role in the beating of another student in March.

Warren Joseph McCabe, 25, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., was charged with malicious wounding, a felony, after a 20-year-old man was found lying in the roadway of Ingles Court with severe facial injuries the night of March 17.

Virginia Tech

What: Board of visitors

When: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday

Where: Inn at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

On the agenda: Executive Committee meeting, 11 a.m. to noon; general information session for all board members, 2 to 4 p.m.; and the Research Committee from 4:15 to 6 p.m. The information session at 2 p.m. will include discussions of the university strategic plan and severance and retirement options for faculty and staff.

NEWPORT -- In the past several months, Adrian Williams took measures to try to prevent thefts at his business, the Super Val U Grocery.

He installed security cameras, including one that records everything going on at the counter, and, following in the footsteps of many convenience store owners, moved cigarettes behind the counter to make them more difficult to steal.

PULASKI COUNTY

Virginia 609 to close for bridge repairs

A portion of Virginia 609 (Pine Run Road) in Pulaski County will close Nov. 16 to through traffic at its intersection with Virginia 100, so the bridge over Pine Run can be replaced.

Full results from the Region C and Region IV cross country meets ran in Friday's Sports section. This information was incorrect in a Friday story in the Current.

Ernest Logan Draper, 18, Anthony Curtis Mannon, 48, and Angela Marie Smith, 26, all of Pulaski, face charges in connection with robberies the night of Oct. 30 at Troy's Restaurant and King Buffet, which are in adjacent shopping centers on Peppers Ferry Road.

Lori Anne Jarvis, 43, was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possessing marijuana after a September incident in which a teenage girl suffered an apparent overdose at Jarvis' Radford home. She was later charged with possessing cocaine after materials found in her home were analyzed by a state laboratory.

An error caused by the software that compiles the information on the tax bills resulted in some bills indicating that residents own more vehicles than they actually do or that they don't own a vehicle at all, Town Manager Lance Terpenny said Thursday.

As volunteer "buyers" for the Montgomery County Christmas Store, they were looking for bargains on electric frying pans, George Foreman grills, bed linens and other home furnishings that will help needy families have a better Christmas.

Ten artists will showcase their work from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday during this year's "Art Tour Ten."

The artists are Kate Anderson, Charlie Brouwer, Sue Brozovsky, Jennifer Collins, Aileen Fletcher, Lora Leigh Giessler, Chris Lively, Susan Lockwood, Darcy Meeker and Linda Osborne.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will have a public meeting today on a plan to replace the Narrows bridge.

Residents may review plans for the Virginia 61 project and ask questions of VDOT staff during the meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Narrows Community Center at 110 Mary St. No formal presentation will be given, according to a news release from VDOT.

| Anna L. Mallory

anna.mallory@roanoke.com, 381-8627

The Montgomery County registrar's office didn't get local election results into the State Board of Elections' system until almost midnight Tuesday, leaving some residents questioning who won races.

| Sharla Bardin

sharla.bardin@roanoke.com, 381-1669

The winners in Tuesday's Blacksburg Town Council election credit their victories to straightforward messages, the support of family and friends and their roots in the community.

| Amy Matzke-Fawcett

amy.matzke-fawcett@roanoke.com, 381-1674

BLACKSBURG -- One of the most well-known compositions in classical music is Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons."

The center will house three pools and space for such uses as recreational swimming and Atlantic Coast Conference and other swimming meets.

CHRISTIANSBURG -- The town council offered its support Monday to the routes and fares planned for Blacksburg Transit's expanded service in town.

The new Christiansburg routes begin Nov. 23, and riders can use them for free through Dec. 31.

For the third year, members of the DECA club, a business group, are asking the community to donate food or money to their "Home for the Holidays" program, which provides bags of breakfast and lunch foods to go home with selected students during their two-week winter break.

n At right: Hailey Johnson of Christiansburg submitted this photo of Laddie with a pumpkin.

n Below: Joyce Sims of Radford snapped this photo of Trigger ready to go trick-or-treating. Joyce said, "He collected quite a few doggie treats."