Gene Marrano

Dan Bremner – Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs photo

The Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs are off to a rough start – just 1-and-4 on the season heading into Friday night’s home game against Fayetteville. One reason says head coach Dan Bremner – too many penalties. The Rail Yard Dawgs have also made a number of roster moves this week, looking to shake things up. Hear much more from head coach Dan Bremner below:

The former Villa Heights Recreation Center in northwest Roanoke sat vacant and dilapidated for more than a decade before Restoration Housing bought it from Roanoke City several years ago and then invested around $800,000 dollars to bring it back to life as a community center, with several non-profit tenants. LEAP for Local Foods and The Humble Hustle are two of the tenants leasing office space from Kingdom Life Ministries International,the anchor tenant in a building that dates back to the early 1800’s. Isabel Thornton is president of Restoration Housing; she spoke at this morning’s ribbon cutting:

8th district Republican delegate Joe McNamara earned his first full 2-year term to the General Assembly tonight after winning a special election last November. McNamara topped Democrat challenger Darlene Lewis. Before the General Assembly session reconvenes in January,  Before it was confirmed that Democrats had flipped both the House of Delegates and State Senate – with the Governor’s mansion they now control all three branches of state government for the first tie since 1993 – McNamara looked ahead to that possibility: