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Sounding much like a doctor delivering the bad news, two days after issuing a state-wide “stay at home” mandate to avoid unnecessary travel away from ...
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Roanoke is closing all its  paved river greenways to the public as of 8:00 am Friday. Mayor Sherman Lea says while outdoor exercise is important, ...
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The Kiwanis Club of Roanoke was “90 percent of the way” towards its $400,000 fundraising goal for the new playground it is paying for outside ...
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Roanoke Valley Businesses are adapting their business models in reaction to the pandemic - restaurants are selling groceries, offering family meal deals to go and ...
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LewisGale's regional health system is now requiring all staff and providers in all patient care areas to wear masks. Officials say social distancing is often ...
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Many non-profits are struggling right now as well – for the Local Office on Aging its centered on food shortages and other staples. Now the ...
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Virginia's Constitution comes into conflict with the coronavirus in this month of April. The General Assembly is required to reconvene -- but how it will ...
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Roanoke City officials say a social services employee tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. The city says the employee was last in the workplace on ...
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NEWS RELEASE: USA Softball has announced the cancellation of all originally scheduled 2020 stops on the “Stand Beside Her” tour, presented by Major League Baseball, due to the COVID-19 public ...
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Independent candidate for Roanoke City Mayor – former longtime incumbent David Bowers – has sent a COVID-19 relief plan for consideration to City Council. WFIR’s ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia gun-rights group is protesting Gov. Ralph Northam’s order to shut down the state’s indoor shooting ranges as part of ...
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Officials at the Lynchburg-based Centra health system say they do not expect a peak in Lynchburg-region COVID-19 cases until mid-May -- and the first wave ...
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Roanoke College athletic director Scott Allison took to Facebook to address the Maroons student-athletes who won’t be competing this spring with the COVID-19 shutdown- and ...
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An ambulance turned ministry that takes care of the homeless has had to alter its functions during the COVID-19 pandemic. WFIR’s Ian Price has more: ...
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Beginning today Goodwill Industries of the Valleys will accept donations at its thrift store locations within the Carilion Clinic “footprint” – for Personal Protection Equipment ...
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A Franklin County native who is now Government Affairs Director for Gentry Locke's Richmond office says it is essential in these times for businesses to ...
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The Commonwealth of Virginia becomes the latest state to issue a formal “Stay in Place” order. Governor Ralph Northam made that pronouncement yesterday as WFIR’s ...
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Based on feedback we've gotten from the community and reporters, there is confusion over the overlap in numbers between us and VDH, especially since Carilion ...
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Governor Northam is ordering Virginia residents to remain at home as the state takes new steps in efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19. The ...
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They say necessity is the Mother of Invention and in these days of business shutdowns and social distancing many are learning to be "light on ...
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