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Need a ride to the polls this election day, or want to continue the theme of Sustainability Week and encourage the use of public transportation while exercising your right to vote? Blacksburg Transit is providing "Election Day transportation service to voting locations within the Town of Blacksbu...

I had a video session scheduled today with Leslie Frantz, owner and operator of Hometown Appraisal Services here in Blacksburg, and we FORTUNATELY had to cancel the appointment.  I wanted to talk with Leslie about how the current market has changed her appraisals, and what she's seeing on a daily...

It's Sustainability Week in Blacksburg, which means we should be focusing a little bit more on minimizing our impact in the communities we live in.  One of the ways to do that is to bike around Town.  Have you ever tried it?  Blacksburg is a pretty bike-friendly town, at least more than most, and...

Rackspace, and it's webmail division of Mailtrust - which, coincidentally is Blacksburg-grown - IPO'd in August 2008, yet very little was written about it in the local paper.  Stuart's contention is that success stories like Mailtrust, and so many others located throughout our region, need the su...

Coal-fired power plants. Critics say they're dirty, that it has enormous leave-behinds in the form of ash, pollutants like sulphuric acids, arsenic and loads of carbon dioxide, not to mention the costs - both quantifiable and non-quantifiable - for mining, disposing of leave-behinds, and illness...

Pandapas Pond From Blacksburg - 460 West to Pandapas Pond, From Giles - 460 East to Pandapas Pond, , VA Pandapas Pond is a gem just four miles from Blacksburg VA. It's a popular hiking and mountain biking spot, with trails that head off into the Jefferson National Forest. A lot of people just li...

Took a hike up the AT to McAfee's Knob this past weekend. I'd never been up there, and I had no idea what I was missing. Absolutely gorgeous, you've got to see it in person. McAfee's Knob, on the Appalachian Trail McAfee's Knob, on the Appalachian Trail, Outside Catawba, VA, McAfee's Knob is one ...

The Current yesterday ran a "forum" piece regarding the proposed Blacksburg workforce housing project that's been hotly debated; it appears that the forum was a response to this October 5th editorial.  Please tell me this was a joke.  Honestly.  I'm confused as to the message this sends to commu...

Last month, I wrote "What Is A Home Inspection?"  I fully intended to write more ... but I didn't.   Then Jay Thompson in Phoenix wrote about the home inspection from the Seller's point of view.  I think he wrote it better than I could. The seller should be looking at the inspection in much the ...

I mentioned Sustainability Week recently, but there wasn't much information available.  Now, there's a lot more. What is Sustainability Week? What's happening?  Short version or long version. Why is this important?  Taking care of our environment is more than a fad, it's the right thing to do.  ...