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FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE: THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.
* LOCATIONS…NEW RIVER AND ROANOKE VALLEYS INTO THE PIEDMONT OF VIRGINIA.
* HAZARD TYPES…HEAVY SNOW THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.
* ACCUMULATIONS… 8 TO 24 INCHES THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.
* TIMING… HEAVY SNOW STARTING LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING.
(Continue reading for the rest of the Winter Storm Watch.)
We are now less than two weeks away from the Iowa Caucus, the time when the presidential campaign attention turns more from debates to counting votes. And a Virginia Tech political analyst says that’s why some voter attitudes may be changing, as WFIR’s Evan Jones reports.
2016 is going to be a big year for the water authority that serves Bedford County. Construction is now fully under way for a new water treatment plant at Smith Mountain Lake, and as crews build the plant, others are installing a new water line this year to serve the Town of Bedford. WFIR’s Evan Jones has the story.
Virginia’s deer hunting season is over in most parts of the state, and Hunters for the Hungry hopes this year will be better than last when it comes to its mission. The program hopes to provide 325,000 pounds of venison to the hungry this year. More from WFIR’s Evan Jones.
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Norfolk Southern is consolidating operations in two divisions stretching from Norfolk to southern Ohio, basing the new division in Roanoke. The consolidation will mostly affect NS jobs in Bluefield, West Virginia, where one of those divisions is currently based. The railroad says it is streamlining operations in order to operate on a more cost-effective basis.
(Continue reading for the full Norfolk Southern news release)
The federal government may have declared that Virginia has effectively ended veteran homelessness, but that doesn’t mean there are no more homeless vets — at least on a temporary basis. As WFIR’s Evan Jones reports, the Roanoke Rescue Mission helped hundreds of them in 2015.
