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Christiansburg Town Council meets tonight at 7:30. Here's the agenda.

A rematch between Giles and Radford highlights the first round of the high school football playoffs that begin on Friday. Other local teams set to play are Christiansburg and Narrows.

Eastern Montgomery, with its 8-2 record, was awarded a first-round bye.

For full slate of playoff action, click here.

Region C, Division 1
No. 6 Narrows (3-7) at No. 3 Bath County (6-4)
No. 5 Rural Retreat (3-7) at No. 4 Covington (6-4)
No. 1 Holston (9-1) and No. 2 Eastern Montgomery (8-2) have Week 1 byes

Region C, Division 2
No. 6 James River (5-5) at Fort Chiswell (9-1)
No. 5 Giles (6-4) at Radford (7-3)
No. 1 George Wythe (7-3) and No. 2 Chilhowie (7-3) have Week 1 byes

Region IV, Division 4
No. 6 Bassett (3-7) at No. 3 Christiansburg (7-3)
No. 5 Magna Vista (6-4) at No. 4 Carroll County (6-4)
No. 1 Salem (10-0) at No. 2 Hidden Valley (7-3) have Week 1 byes

The Blue Demons head to Tunstall on Monday for a playoff match. Read more here.

With nearly 90 percent of the vote, Christiansburg residents voted to change the muncipal elections from May to November, beginning in 2011, according to unofficial tallies from the Montgomery County regisitrar's office.

We have complete results here.

Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor, will make the traditional final-weekend stops in Christiasnburg and Pulaski on Saturday. It's been traditional for Democrats to spend the final weekend of the campaign in Southwest Virginia.

Meanwhile, Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate, is elsewhere in the state. Here are the official schedules for candidates. Read more »

We have more photos from Friday's three overtime game between Christiansburg and Salem. These come from Matt Gentry of The Roanoke Times.

You can view his photos in the slideshow above or in this gallery format.

Do you have photos from the game? Or anything, for that matter, involving people or events around the New River Valley? If so, you can share at newriver@roanoke.com and we'll show 'em off on the Community Current, our site for reader-submitted news and photos.

We have video highlights of Friday's Hidden Valley - Christiansburg game on our Varsity Cast center for high school sports. You can find it here.

Do you have photos from the game? You can share at newriver@roanoke.com.

Christiansburg Town Council meets at 7:30 p.m. Here's the agenda.

Jeff Sturgeon has posted this story about Sam's Club making plans to locate in Christiansburg.

Imagine my surprise, and delight, when I received this email at 9:36 this morning from Henry Bass, a local Army reservist and business owner who we featured in a four-page spread in today's NRV Current:

Chris,

The blog articles and photos came out GREAT in today's paper- and guess what? Your timing was unbelieveable-- I have just arrived HOME!

My orders took me out to November 9th, but our unit transfered authority to the 36th Sustainment Brigade last week.  They had an earlier flight come open, and moved over a dozen of us up in the redeployment schedule! It was like a giant rollercoaster: we were waiting in Tallil for the next event, and suddenly we're in the redeployment ride, going from Tallil to Camp Virginia (Kuwait); then Fort McCoy, WI and home to Roanoke; and it's over! Or at least it's just beginning: reuniting with my family, and later on this week, with my work.

Henry

Just goes to show you that nothing ever works out the way you had it planned -- and sometimes, it's for the better. We have another four-page spread on Bass and his time in the Middle East planned for Wednesday's Current. Hopefully he'll like it just as much.

Welcome home, Henry.