Flashback: Tracking NRV history

The new consolidated Floyd County High School opened in 1962. — The Roanoke Times file 1962

1987
(25 years ago)
- “Gov. Gerald Baliles has selected Pulaski as one of five localities to participate in the Virginia Main Street Program for the next three years.”
- “Five Radford University soccer players were named to the Big South All-conference team announced Thursday.”
- “The first snowfall of the season greeted residents early Wednesday morning, less than 12 hours after some [Blacksburg] Town Council members said at a meeting that they’d gotten complaints about the pickup of leaves.”
- “For more than 55 minutes Saturday night, the college football world was out of order. Virginia Tech (1-9) had battled No. 3 Miami (8-0) evenly in the Orange Bowl until a 1-yard touchdown run by Melvin Bratton broke a 13-13 tie and gave the Hurricanes a seven-point lead.”
- “Starting tomorrow, police, fire and rescue services for Christiansburg residents will be only three digits away – 911.”

1962
(50 years ago)
- “Mildred Miller, glamorous mezzo-soprano star of the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera, will be presented by the Blacksburg Community Concert Association in a concert Thursday, Nov. 15.”
- “Bob Schweickert and Virginia Tech handed winless Wake Forest its worst beating of the season Saturday, 37-8.”
- “An overflow crowd of Floyd citizens and school children attended the formal opening of the new million-dollar consolidated Floyd County high School.”
- “The Narrows Green Wave accomplished something Monday night that has only been equaled by two other teams in the history of the Virginia High School League – they won their 32nd consecutive game with a 32-14 decision over Dublin.”

1937
(75 years ago)
- “Mrs. D. V. Jewell, manager of Crockett Springs hotel, said today a contract for the sale of the hotel property to Kingswood Schools and Homes, Inc., had been cancelled and the faculty and pupils of the school had vacated the buildings.”
- “Several hundred men, women and children gathered here [Pearisburg] this morning to pay tribute to the county’s World War dead.”
- “Roanoke college, traditional opening game for Virginia Tech, will not be on the Gobblers’ schedule next season, it was announced last night.”
- “Virginia Tech’s cross country team toted the championship of Virginia home today out of the mists, cold rain and mud by virtue of a sparkling performance over a dreary, new five-mile course.”
- “The retirement of Dr. John Preston McConnell from the active presidency of the State Teacher’s college at East Radford, November 15, marks the completion of 52 years of distinguished service to the cause of education in Virginia.”
- “A volunteer’s fire department was organized here [Floyd] this week.”

1912
(100 years ago)
- “Mr. F. B. Caldwell, of Bristol, president of the Modern Index Corporation, was in town [Christiansburg] Thursday, to see about the proposition to index the deed and deeds of trust books in the Clerk’s Office.”
- “Thursday night the town [Christiansburg] was in total darkness. This occurs so often, that to say the least, it is a little inconvenient.”
- “The engine of [Virginian] extra freight train No. 469 exploded at 10:20 last night two miles west of Lafayette, Montgomery county.”
- “The new railway station of the Norfolk & Western at Blacksburg was opened to the public this week.”
- “Mr. F. D. Bolton, of Fincastle, owner of the canning factory at this place [Christiansburg], gave a barbecue last Monday to his canners in this and Floyd county.”
- “V. P. I. defeated the University of West Virginia, here, this afternoon, in the last game of the season on the home grounds, by a score of 41 to 0.”

-Compiled by Roanoke Times librarian Belinda Harris

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