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### Youngkin Announces $15.5 Million in Land Conservation Grants

November 12, 2025

### Gov. Youngkin Blasts Attorney General-Elect Jones For “Abhorrent” Texts

### SHOCK POLL: Only 46% Virginians Found Jay Jones’ Violent Texts “Disqualifying”

### Youngkin Issues Executive Order to Reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test in Virginia Schools

### GOP Ticket Rallies Roanoke: “This Is Our Patrick Henry Moment”



#### News

### Del. Rasoul Endorses Controversial Jay Jones, Ignores Jones’ Violent Wishes

November 3, 2025

On Saturday, November 1, the last day of early voting, Del. Salam Rasoul (D-Roanoke City), who goes by the anglicized nickname "Sam," was greeting voters at the registrar's office on Kimball Ave. Rasoul was first standing alone at a snack table next to the parking lot when he was...

### Sen. Head Blasts Democrats’ “Partisan Power Grab,” Decries Their Failure To Denounce Violence

October 31, 2025

### Do Roanoke City Police, LewisGale, VA Tech Condone Their Employees’ Celebrations of Murder?

October 30, 2025

### Could Redistricting Make Virginia Look Like This?

October 30, 2025

### Attorney General Miyares Issues Opinion On Partisan Gerrymandering Push

October 29, 2025

### Fralin Bio Scientist to Present Real-Time Brain Chemistry Insights at Penn Lecture

October 28, 2025

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#### Arts / Events Etc.

### Elani Spencer Hosts Free Poetry Workshop for Veterans at Roanoke Library

October 6, 2025

A poetry workshop for U.S. military veterans will be held at the City of Roanoke Main Library, 706 South Jefferson Street, Saturday, Oct. 11...

### New Mural Blossoms Downtown

September 15, 2025

### Biomedical Innovator Rob Gourdie Opens Maury Strauss Lecture Series in Roanoke

September 12, 2025

### Free Streams of Roanoke County High School Bands as “Halftime Live” Returns

September 8, 2025

### Roanoke is Going to Have Its First LEGO Fan Convention Next Week

August 28, 2025



#### Business

### Youngkin Announces Elbit America Expansion with $30 Million Investment in Roanoke

November 13, 2025

Governor Glenn Youngkin announced yesterday that Elbit Systems of America will expand its Roanoke County manufacturing facility. The facility, which produces low-light night vision...

### Youngkin Announces VFP, Inc. Expansion in Scott County

October 22, 2025

### Roanoke Businesses Get Support Through Equipment Incentive

September 3, 2025

### Youngkin Announces Google Investing $9 Billion Across Virginia

August 28, 2025

### Youngkin Announces Record-Setting Tourism Spending, $35.1B in Virginia in 2024

August 6, 2025



#### Columnists

### ROBERT L. MARONIC: Trump’s “Great Gatsby Party” At His Mar-a-Lago Club on October 31 Was In Poor Taste

November 13, 2025

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is our country’s largest anti-hunger program for men, women, and children. 42 million poor Americans lost their...

### FRED FIRST: Winter is Coming: Make Ready!

November 12, 2025

### BOB BROWN: “I don’t see how I can go on like this”

November 12, 2025

### SCOT BELLAVIA: God in the Library

November 5, 2025

### ROBERT L. MARONIC: Antisemite Zohran Mamdani Will Be An Economic Disaster For New York City – Part IV

November 4, 2025

### BOB BROWN: The Smell of Combat

November 4, 2025

### ROBERT L. MARONIC: Antisemite Zohran Mamdani Will Be An Economic Disaster For New York City – Part III

November 3, 2025



#### Commentary

### Dissecting the Blue Wave: Turnout

November 11, 2025

Gov. Glenn Youngkin yesterday blamed Tuesday’s shellacking of the Republican Party in Virginia on the government shutdown. “I firmly believe that the government shutdown...

### We Lost More Than an Election — Here’s What Comes Next

November 11, 2025

### No Energy Crisis Debate? Virginians Deserved Better Before Today’s Vote

November 5, 2025

### Letter to the Editor: A free and honest press is appreciated now, more than ever before

November 4, 2025

### Don’t Let Partisan Politics Redraw Virginia’s District Lines

October 31, 2025

### Destroying Democracy: Will Dems Trample on Voters’ Will?

October 27, 2025

### Why I’m Supporting Maynard Keller for the House of Delegates

October 20, 2025



#### COMMUNITY

The Roanoke Star \- November 14, 2025

### Sweet potatoes or yams: What’s really on your Thanksgiving table?

It's harvest season for sweet potatoes in Virginia. Across the southeast, farmers are busy pulling rosy, orange-fleshed vegetables from their fields – but wait, are those actually yams? “No,...

The Roanoke Star \- November 13, 2025

### Virginia NICA Riders Claim 25 Podiums to Close Out the Season

Over the weekend of November 8–9, athletes and teams from 11 states competed in the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) Regional Championship at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management...

The Roanoke Star \- November 5, 2025

### Youngkin Starts Statewide Food Drive for Shutdown-Affected Virginians

Governor Glenn Youngkin yesterday announced the launch of the Virginia Cares Initiative, a Commonwealth-wide food drive to support Virginians impacted by the ongoing federal government shutdown. The initiative...

Scott \- November 3, 2025

### COVID-19 Vaccine Co-Designer Teresa Lambe to Deliver Lecture in Roanoke

One weekend in January 2020, immunologist Teresa Lambe received an email containing a DNA sequence. Lambe, a vaccine researcher with the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, spent most of...



#### Devotionals

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

November 12, 2025

What Does It Mean To Be Born Again? “Well, being born again doesn’t mean to go back into your mother’s stomach,” says Taylor, 11. “It...

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

November 4, 2025

### DEVOTIONAL: The Road of Life

November 2, 2025

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

October 27, 2025

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

October 21, 2025

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

October 7, 2025

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

September 30, 2025

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

September 23, 2025

### CAREY KINSOLVING: KIDS TALK ABOUT GOD

September 16, 2025



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