The board will consider funding an expansion of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, part of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
Montgomery County is closing in on the first year of a three-year, $100 million remaking of a 1970s-era high school.
The university has not responded to numerous attempts for comment about the situation and its potential relation to a protest in April.
After numerous students were caught on the first day of school, those vaping in bathrooms has declined significantly, a school administrator said.
Narrowed down from 70, the candidates are: Peter Anderson of Blacksburg, Virginia, Robert Brandon of Abingdon, John Davis of Spotsylvania; Melissa Frank-Alston of Evans, Georgia, and Ted Lewis of Bluefield, West Virginia.
Franklin County has a goal to keep class sizes below 25 students.
The Fishwick family has been an integral part of the school for nearly 100 years.
All year, school officials have been reassembling a long-term list of renovations and repairs needed to keep the county's schools functioning.
After four years under renovation, War Memorial is reopening for the new school year with a lot of new equipment and exercise space.
Across its 26-school system, Roanoke is welcoming about 14,000 students back to class this week.
Reyhan Deskins will be welcoming students back Thursday as the new principal of Franklin County High School.
“I believe this is a critical moment in the history of Roanoke College – one of innovation and transformation – and I love where the college is going,” said donor and alumnus Shaun McConnon.
“We are in a strong place financially, and in a good place for the future, so I feel like it’s a good time to go,” Sandel said.
The United States is facing a crisis of homelessness, and Roanoke is no exception. Roanoke Area Ministries is one of the groups in the region trying to help, and on Thursday RAM leaders gave an update on the effort to open a new care center.
The state recommendation is even stricter than several more stringent policies passed by local school boards in recent days.
Superintendent Ken Nicely and faculty welcome students back to school at Mount Pleasant Elementary School as Roanoke County Public Schools on Thursday launched the 2024-25 academic year for students.
Salem high school students will be required to have their devices "off and away" during class time.
When schools start back next Tuesday, Roanoke students will be expected to follow stricter cellphone use policies.
The Roanoke County School Board held a special meeting Tuesday to make a final decision on its high school cellphone policy.
Virginia Tech's School of Animal Science is partnering with the SPCA to provide behavioral training for animals at the shelter, as well as hands-on experience for students.
The money comes from the U.S. Department of Education's School Emergency Response to Violence project and is to assist with recovery from the off-campus murder-suicide of two Blacksburg High School students last year.
The gun lock giveaway follows a school board April reminder to parents to store firearms safely.
"I’m comfortable knowing that I’m doing what everyone else in the state is doing versus me trying to do my own thing," Chairman Brent Hudson said.
The board plans to vote on the matter soon.
Each summer a few Ferrum students sign up to continue a 38-year tradition.
School board members and students have reported widespread use of the n-word.
It involves Virginia Tech’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
“If we knew then what we know now, we would have never allowed this,” said Roanoke County School Board member Cheryl Facciani.
Seven Blacksburg Middle School students earned recognition at the recent Future Business Leaders of America National Conference.
The Montgomery County Public Schools sent a notice in recent days reminding the community the school board has adopted a division-wide policy now in effect that prohibits student use of cellphones.