Besides our roanoke.com redesign project, we have a couple of exciting projects going on this week — and they both rely on your votes.

First up: Need some feel-good reading to start your week? We have 48 touching entries in our “My Valentine” photo essay contest. You can help pick the winners by voting here. The winning Valentines will be announced on Feb. 14 (and they will receive more than $2,000 in jewelry prizes from Henebry’s!).

Coming Friday: Four of our community news editions launch their annual “Best Of” voting, in which readers in those areas pick the best of everything, from best burgers and best pizza to best teacher and best rec league coach. Those sections include The Burgs in the New River Valley, the Botetourt View, SoSalem and SWoCo (southwest Roanoke County). Businesses can find promotional materials to help rally your customers at www.roanoke.com/bestof.

In the meantime, if you want to find out more about new additions to this year’s ballot, or who has won in previous years, you can check out these links:

Best of Botetourt

Best of Salem

Best of southwest Roanoke County

Best of the New River Valley

Happy voting!