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MELINDA MYERS: 2024 Winning Flowers for Your Garden and Containers

Make some room in your garden or containers for the new All-America Selections 2024 National award-winning plants. These winning varieties are tested in trial gardens across the United States...

SCOTT DREYER: Rep. Cline Working To Stop Genocide Against Christians In Nigeria

Many are surprised to learn that the largest number of Christians who were killed for...

RANDY HUFF: Yearning for The Real

Thinking long and hard has mixed reviews. At least there's no utopia in the offing....

MORGAN GRIFFITH: He is Risen

As we approach Easter, I am always reminded of one of my favorite stories from...

DEVOTIONAL: Seeking Shelter

And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ,...

City Council Needs to Turn Down The Volume and Listen to Roanoke’s City Schools

The recent Roanoke City Council funding proposal for the City’s Schools raised a serious concern for the School board and the educators in Roanoke...

Within Our Grasp – Learning To Live With What We Have

We are coming to the end of many familiar and comfortable ways of life in the next few months, and the beginnings of the...

MELINDA MYERS: Evoke Positive Emotions by Adding the Pantone Color of the Year to Your Garden

Add a warm, cozy feel to this year’s gardens with the 2024 Pantone Color of the Year, Peach Fuzz. It was selected for generating...

RANDY HUFF: Hinterlands, Divided Electorate, and Love

Most Americans make up an “exhausted majority” whose views aren’t represented either by the orthodox left or the far right. So surmised Ben Kawaller in...

SCOT BELLAVIA: Our Radius of Attention

In Roanoke, the arteries out of town point you to Buchanan and Lexington, Lynchburg, Christiansburg, and Blacksburg. When I moved to Knoxville, the gigantic...

Rep. Ben Cline Joins People in Roanoke to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

On Saturday, March 16, Representative Ben Cline (R-6th Dist), participated in Freedom First St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Downtown Roanoke. The mix of the...