Lisa Willard these these photos. At left, we see Noah (age 7) and Avery (age 4) with Mugsy at a Salem Red Sox game.

Below, Noah feeds the ducks at Lake Spring Park.

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From left, 1946 members Mary Catherine Haley, Lena Gibson, Jean Hann Pedigo, and 1947 member Martha Gladden.

For the last 13 years, the Andrew Lewis High class of 1946 has meet each year for yet another class reunion. This year is the 63rd since their graduation, and most of them are still going strong and are gearing up for the next one this Olde Salem Days weekend.”After the 50th we decided we kind of liked eachother after all these years,” joked Jean Hann Pedigo. Their half-centennial anniversary was held at the Hotel Roanoke, and almost every year since has been at the Salem Civic Center.

“Anything you could think of, somebody in our class has done it,” Pedigo said. Theirs was the first class to graduate after World War II and they’ve been everything from doctors, lawyers, teachers, to engineers and many more professions. Pedigo worked as an aeronautical engineer with North American Aviations and with the beginnings of NASA.

Their classmate Brewster Milton Robertson is an author, and he takes the class out for dinner to Mac n’ Bob’s 5 p.m. Friday night September 11. He reads 11 a.m. Saturday, September 12 at the Raleigh Court Library meeting room. The class dinner on Saturday night is now always at the Salem Civic Center.

This year, Robertson will read from his latest work “Gone to graveyards: a novel of the Korean War.”

The class of 1946, mostly 79 to 81 years old, has lost 55 of its 146 members. Even the last two to three weeks, said Mary Catherine Sellers, they’ve lost several members. Some of the first to go included Joe Brogan and Carlene Grubb, she said, as she flipped through the pages of her yearbook.

But all in all “we’re a pretty hearty bunch,” said Pedigo. And they keep adding in folks from time to time. All of the members from the Andrew Lewis classes of the 1940s are welcome to attend. Martha Aldhizer Gladden from the class of 1947, as well as a few other reunion attendees, sometimes bring one of their children along, too, to catch up with friends.

Keith Edmunds, a Lewis Gale physician who died just before the reunion about three years ago, was one of the most insistent that they have the reunion annually, because any class member “could step off the curb and be hit by a bus any time,” said Gladden.

The 1940s classes can remember when there was no indoor plumbing at their elementary schools – Lena Mitchell Gibson and Pedigo had two outdoor privy eight-seaters at Washington Heights. Most of them had to walk to school at one time or another – and if they lived in Salem city limits, there were no buses.

Now, class members come from Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, California, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Florida, and from North and South Carolina, most of them every year as long as they can travel, by air or road.

For more information about the reunion (everyone should have RSVP’d for Saturday night by now, however), contact Mary Catherine Sellers at 774-0246.

Anne Johnston shares this photo gallery of Saturday’s soccer match between the Glenvar Dragons and the Glenvar Steam.

Thanks, Anne!

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

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Anne Johnston shares this photo gallery of Saturday’s soccer match between the Glenvar Crush and the Vinton Starz.

Thanks, Anne!

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

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Barbara Krzysko of Salem was at Saturday’s Salem Red Sox game and shares this photo gallery of the action both on and off the field.

Here we see Jackson Hartman, 14 months, taking in his first ball game with his mom, Scottie.

Barbara tells us it “was Hokie night at the Salem Red Sox but the turkey at the front gate was the “Spokes Turkey” for the Drumstick 5K Run/Walk, Kevin S Spencer. I did find the VT Ice Hockey Asst Coach, Jesse Long, at a table where I entered to win anything they were giving away. I did actually win season tickets for the VT Ice Hockey games. There was plenty of entertainment, from the darling baby behind us, Jackson Hartman (14 mon) attending his first game, to the Mascots greeting all the kids.”

Thanks, Barbara!

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Salem High School's runners warm up before the start of the Clash with the Titans cross country race at Hidden Valley. Photos by Hank Ebert, special to So Salem

Salem High School was one of fifteen teams (nearly 400 athletes) that took part in the Clash with the Titans cross country meet on Saturday, Aug. 29, in Southwest Roanoke County, hosted by Hidden Valley High School.

Here are a couple of photos of Salem’s runners by Hank Ebert. To see more photos from the meet, click here.

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Salem High School cross country runners use short pieces of rope to help stretch their legs prior to their event.

Photo courtesy of Matt Gregory

Here is a photo of the 2nd annual Gregory football cookout over in West Salem at the residence of Matt and Breckell Gregory.

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Photo courtesy of Devonte Joyce

Here is a photo of Devonte Joyce as he dunks on a 9 foot goal. Devonte is only a 4’11″ boy who is 13 years old.

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Mary Sutphin of Salem proudly shares these photos her grandchildren. You’ll find:

* Wilton Sutphin, son of Todd and Angie, on his first day of kindergarten.
* Carson Sutphin, son of Tim and Kelly, at the duck pond.
* Chandler Sutphin, son of Tim and Kelly, at the duck pond.
* And last, but not least, the baby grandson, MacGreggor at his first birthday party. He is the son of Todd and Angie.
* Also — here is one of a duck at the duck pond. Mary says: “My grandson calls him/her “poof head”. I thought it was a very cute one.”

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

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We’ve just updated our Roanoke Valley crime map with the latest offenses from Salem and Roanoke County — and Roanoke, as well.

From August 11 through August 23, police reported one rape, one robbery, three burglaries, two motor vehicle thefts and eight larcenies in Salem.

Meanwhile, between August 9 and August 22, Roanoke County police reported three burglaries, four larcenies and one aggravated assault in western Roanoke County.

In all, that six burglaries in and around Salem during that time.

You can see a map of where those incidents took place in Salem or western Roanoke County – or you can search the map yourself, by location, by offense or by date.

Also, the Salem Police Department provides more detailed information than other localities — so in addition to the Roanoke Valley crime map, we have a more detailed Salem crime map you can search, as well.

Follow the links above and you can see where they were and what they were. Our data delivery editor, Matt Chittum, has more information how you can use the searchable crime maps.

Also on our Datasphere collection of searchable data: The latest test scores for each school under the No Child Left Behind Act.