About the Community Current blog
Welcome to The Community Current, the gathering place for news and tidbits from The New River Valley. You'll be able to find up-to-date community postings, events and photos from Montgomery, Giles, Floyd and Pulaski counties, as well as the city of Radford, here at this blog.
And please join in! You can share your comments, stories, links and ideas here, too. This is your community conversation.
The NRV Current is a six-day-a-week publication for and by residents of the New River Valley. Check out our print edition, which publishes Tuesday through Sunday in The Roanoke Times.
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Community Current bloggers
 Chris Winston , NRV editor Chris Winston is the New River valley bureau chief at The Roanoke Times. A Lexington, S.C., native, Chris has been a team leader with the company since 2005. Prior to that, he was a sports reporter, health reporter, business editor and assistant city editor at the Herald-Journal newspaper in Spartanburg, S.C. from 1996-2005. Chris received an undergraduate degree in journalism from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. If you have comments, suggestions or concerns about news coverage in the NRV Current, contact him at chris.winston@roanoke.com or (540) 381-1678. |
 Dwayne Yancey, senior editor for new channels Dwayne Yancey is senior editor for new channels. He's been with The Roanoke Times since 1982, first as a reporter and later as an editor. Yancey grew up on a farm in McGaheysville, Va., and graduated from James Madison University. Yancey is also is an author and playwright. His book, "When Hell Froze Over," documented the political rise of Doug Wilder, the first African-American elected governor in the United States.
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