Matt Williams of Southwest Roanoke County has started a company that specializes in, um, doggy doo. He calls it The Scoop Group. Our pet blogger has details — and some funny quotes — on The Happy Wag.

We’ve just updated our Roanoke County crime map with offenses through March 15 — the most recent data available.

In Southwest Roanoke County, you’ll find some larcenies, some burglaries, some motor vehicle thefts — and even an aggravated assault.

To see how this compares with other localities, we also have crime maps for Roanoke and Salem. All this appears on our Datasphere site, run by data delivery editor Matt Chittum.

Got thoughts on crime in Southwest Roanoke County? Share your views by clicking on “comments.”

Three students from the Susan Braden Music Studio in Southwest Roanoke County placed in the recent Virginia adjudication for the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition and now advance to regional competition.

And two of those students have school ties to Southwest Roanoke County.

They are:

* Emily Smith, a junior at Cave Spring High School, who took first place in the junior / senior high school women in musical theatre category and second place in the advanced junior / senior high school women in classical voice.
* Reed Braden, a freshman at Virginia Western Community College and a graduate of Cave Spring High School, who took second place in the college freshmen men for musical theatre.
* Krista Borling, a senior at William Fleming High School, who took third place in the junior / senior high school women in musical theatre.

The three students will represent Virginia as they compete in the Mid-Atlantic regional competitions at Old Dominion University on April 5. The Mid-Atlantic Region of NATS includes Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, North and South Carolinas. Eight students were selected from the Studio to compete in the state-wide competition earlier this month. All eight received excellent or superior scores.

The accolades continue to pour in for the Hidden Valley girls’ basketball team, now state champions for the second year in a row. Sportswriter Robert Anderson calls the Titans “classy and impressive” on the March 18 edition of Varsity Cast, our weekly high school sports webcast — and says a lot of other nice things, too.

Want to share your thoughts of the team? Click “comments” below.

Quigg Lawrence has submitted three nice photos of Hidden Valley High School players in action at Saturday’s state championship basketball game, where the Hidden Valley girls took home their second straight state title.

You can find them on the Hidden Valley photo page on varsity.roanoke.com

They feature Abby Oliver, Kylee Beecher and Abby Reddick. If you have photos to share, check out the Varsity site.

The Virginia Cooperative Extension has announced the Roanoke Master Gardener Spring Plant Clinic & Sale will be April 12 at the Brambleton Center, 3738 Brambleton Ave. S.W. The event will include the Tea Thyme Tea Room with brunch or lunch.

The plant sale and clinic will run 8 a.m. to noon. Advance tickets of $12 each are needed for the tea room, where brunch will run 10 to 11:30 a.m. and lunch is noon to 2 p.m.

For more information, call Shelby Snider, 992-3644; Betty Luber, 473-1789; Bonnie Surface, 977-0545; or Kathryn Debnar, 797-1146.

We’ve just updated our Roanoke County crime map with offenses through March 8 — the most recent data available.

In Southwest Roanoke County, you’ll find some larcenies, some burglaries, and two motor vehicle thefts.

To see how this compares with other localities, we also have crime maps for Roanoke and Salem. All this appears on our Datasphere site, run by data delivery editor Matt Chittum.

We have not one, not two, but three photo galleries from the state basketball tournament in Richmond.

The most recent is from Saturday, where the Hidden Valley girls won the Group AA state championship.

We also have galleries from the semi-finals, from both the girls’ game and the boys’ game.

If you have photos from any of the games, feel free to share them with us at news@swo-co.com

Hidden Valley beat Waynesboro 59-45 in the girls’ Group AA state championship game. Kylee Beecher had 21 points, and Abby Redick and Abby Oliver each had 16 points as the Titans won back-to-back state titles.

For more on state finals, visit the Press Box blog.

Only the Hidden Valley girls’ basketball team will advance to the state championship game on Saturday. The boys lost this afternoon in the semi-finals: Brunswick 55, Hidden Valley 49. Details on both games are on the Press Box blog.