Sportswriter Mark Berman talked with Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg and Radford coach Brad Greenberg and got their pre-season thoughts. See this post on Mark's Courtside basketball blog.
Music writer Tad Dickens has the list of who's playing at the Blacksburg nightspot in this post on his cut'n'scratch music blog.
Dave Nutter won a fifth term in the Virginia House of Delegates Tuesday.
Unofficial results showed Nutter, 54, an economic development specialist at Virginia Tech, came out well ahead of challenger Peggy Frank, an assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Pulaski County.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Nutter received nearly 60 percent of the votes cast.
“I think people were responding a lot to a basic message of getting the job done. I’ve been able to do that in the General Assembly,” Nutter said.
Two years ago, the district’s voters also chose Nutter, a Republican, over Frank. The race was decided by fewer than 700 votes.
This time, Nutter pulled significantly ahead. He beat Frank in her home county of Pulaski, garnering 69 percent of the vote. Nutter took slightly more than 60 percent of the votes cast in Montgomery County.
In contrast, Radford nearly split over the question of which one should be the region’s next lawmaker, with 54 percent voting for Nutter and 46 percent voting for Frank.
Nutter also led in fund-raising. His campaign raised $197,621 in money and in-kind donations and spent $177,291. Frank’s campaign chest came to $150,569. She spent $116,675.
This will be Nutter’s fifth term representing the state’s 7th House district, which consists of Radford and portions of Montgomery and Pulaski counties.
One voter who cast his ballot for Nutter explained his decision this way.
“I can rely on him to be against cap and trade,” said Mark Larkin of Claytor Lake. “I can rely on him to be against a public option. I can rely on him to be against big government.”
Kate Smith, who lives in the Pulaski County community of Mountain View, said she was struck that she did not seen Frank campaign signs nor receive a mailing in the rural community.
“It made me think she wasn’t interested in our area,” said Smith, who gave her vote to Nutter.
Carlotta Lewis, a Pulaski County resident, said she liked Frank and based her decision to vote for her on TV commercials and a call to her home from the campaign.
“She’s capable and she will do a good job,” Lewis said upon leaving her polling place.
-- Jeff Sturgeon
We have complete results 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.
John Bush celebrates his win.
Four available Blacksburg Town Council seats were won tonight by incumbent Susan Anderson and newcomers John Bush, Krisha Chachra and Cecile Newcomb, according to the Montgomery County registrar's office.
We have complete results here.
We have analysis of the statewide results here.
Dave Nutter won a fifth term in the Virginia House of Delegates tonight, the Associated Press reported.
Incomplete returns showed Nutter, 54, an economic development specialist at Virginia Tech, well ahead of challenger Peggy Frank, an assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Pulaski County.
Two years ago, when offered the same two choices, the district's voters also chose Nutter, a Republican. The 2007 contest was a close race decided by fewer than 700 votes out of 12,644 ballots cast.
This time, Nutter pulled significantly ahead. He beat Frank in her home county of Pulaski, garnering 69 percent of the vote. However, Radford nearly split over the question of which one should be the region’s next lawmaker, with 54 percent voting for Nutter and 46 percent voting for Frank.
Montgomery County has not reported any results to the State Board of Elections as of 9:45 p.m.
We have complete results here.
We have analysis of the statewide results here.
Novelist Melanie Rae Thon will be at Volume II bookstore in Blacksburg Wednesday for a reading.
For details, see our Back Cover book blog.
Polls across Virginia opened at 6 a.m. today; they close at 7 p.m.
Do you have news (or even photos) to share from your polling place? Long lines? Short lines? No lines at all?
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We'll have updates through the day; and then tonight, we'll be posting election returns and analysis both here and on roanoke.com's election site.
A 17-year effort to bring National Wild and Scenic River designation to a 19.3-mile stretch of the New River (from Glen Lyn to Bluestone Lake in West Virginia) is nearing an end.
Public comment on a 194-page report ends this week. The Giles County Board of Supervisors will consider a resolution of support at its Wednesday meeting. Public comment made be made then or here.
Comments on the report, and designation, at the federal level can be made to the U.S. National Park Service here.
The full report is here.
The act scheduled to open for Maroon 5, K'Naan, has changed. Fitz and the Tantrums will perform instead.
Maroon 5 will perform Nov. 10 at Virginia Tech at Burruss Auditorium.
"We recognize that for many ticket holders this will be very disappointing news and we are trying to get more information. However, the tour/agencies representing the tour are not obligated to do so," wrote Laura Bedenbaugh, spokeswoman for the concert in an e-mail Monday.
The concert is being sponsored by Virginia Tech Union, Student Government Association and Hillel at Virginia Tech. As of late Thursday, about 300 tickets were still available for the show.
--Amy Matzke-Fawcett
