Later this week, we'll be expanding SWoCo in two big ways.

First, we'll be adding a full website for Southwest Roanoke County to complement the news blog you're looking at now. We'll talk more about that when it goes up and we can point to some of the features.

Second, we'll be launching our print edition of SWoCo on Friday. It will be a new weekly newspaper to provide community news to Southwest Roanoke County residents.

There are three ways you'll be able to get the print version of SWoCo.

* If you're a subscriber to The Roanoke Times and live in Southwest Roanoke County, you'll find it each Friday in your regular newspaper delivery.

* If you're not a subscriber, but still live in Southwest Roanoke County, you'll have it mailed to you each week as part of the Simply Savings advertising flier you now receive. For most of you, it should arrive on Friday or Saturday, depending on postal delivery. If that uncertainty sounds like a plug for subscribing, well, our circulation department will be happy to take care of that.

Between those two methods, we figure we'll reach more than 90 percent of the households in Southwest Roanoke County.

* Nevertheless, there's a third way you can get the new SWoCo -- we'll have free copies to give away at certain locations. Check back with us later in the week and we'll tell you what those are.

However you get SWoCo, we'd love for you to share your news and photos with us. If it's important to you and your friends of neighbors, it's important to us. You can email us at: news@swo-co.com. (Don't forget the dash!)

You can also contact our community journalist for Southwest Roanoke County -- Emily Flora -- at emily.flora@swo-co.com. And when she's not out and about in Southwest Roanoke County, you can find Emily working in our Southwest Roanoke County "bureau" -- otherwise known as the Mill Mountain Coffee & Tea on Starkey Road. We'll be posting office hours for her, too, so keep checking back.

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