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By Matt de Simone   The Cave Hill Dairy Farm in Troutville is one of seven dairy farms left in Botetourt County. It is a fifth-generation dairy farm and a sixth-generation farm. “It takes a village to run a farm,”...

By Matt de Simone   There are a few cineplexes where one can catch a flick in the Roanoke Valley, but there is only one authentic simplex where you can take in a picture and know you’re sitting in living...

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Movie Night at Pleasant Hill Baptist Pleasant Hill Baptist Church will hold Movie Night on January 30 at 6 p.m. in the fellowship hall. The movie will be “God’s Not Dead: We the People.” Admission is free and refreshments will...

Daleville has a new dentist and her name is Dr. Fawzia Bennett. Dr. Bennett and her team hosted an open house on January 13, 2022 to give locals the chance to meet their dentist and other staff and to see...

The Botetourt Kiwanis Club met on January 10 at Bellacino’s to discuss plans for the winter and spring of 2022. The club reviewed the success of its Thanksgiving and Christmas gift card project, in which the Kiwanians partnered with the...

Using innovative in-road sensors, the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) removed 13,000 unsafe tires from commercial vehicles traveling on Interstate 81 in just one year. The technology, called Tire Anomaly and Classification System (TACS), enables weigh station technicians to...

Botetourt County Rotary Club member Don Nichols has been appointed Assistant District Governor (AG) for Area 6 of Rotary District 7570. At the request of Rotary District 7570 Governor Tara Ellis, Nichols agreed to step in to fill the remaining six...

Last Thursday, then-Gov. Ralph Northam announced a grant award in the amount of $362,700 for site development improvements at the Botetourt Center at Greenfield in Daleville. The grant is part of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership’s (VEDP) Business Ready Sites Program...

This odd-looking artifact in the Botetourt County Historical Museum was used by farmers to weigh their crops. Today they are still used in a more modern form for exercise. It is a “Kettle Ball” made by Milo-Duplex, weighs 36 pounds,...