Shawsville News

Q: All of a sudden, the people on Channel 10 have brown eyes. Did WSLS make all its employees wear brown contact lenses? -- Dale Grant, Roanoke A: I'm afraid your question has completely mystified WSLS, the NBC affiliate based in Roanoke.

Montgomery County received between 3.93 inches of rain in Christiansburg and 5.36 inches in Lafayette over two days.

Several Montgomery County schools will be closed today because of flooding concerns.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will have a public meeting today on a plan to replace the Narrows bridge.

The Montgomery County School Board will see just one new face joining it in January, as voters chose incumbents Phyllis Albritton in District A and Jamie Bond in District D. Bond has been on the board since 2005.

Students at Elliston Lafayette Elementary School, Shawsville Elementary School and Christiansburg Primary School received vaccines against H1N1 this week.

Montgomery, Floyd and Giles counties have school board seats up for grab in the Nov.

The consolidated school under construction in Elliston will be called Eastern Montgomery Elementary School.

The Shawnee Mini Mart in Shawsville charged "unconscionable" prices, the attorney general said.

Joseph Allen Williams, age 79, died Monday, October 12, 2009. Joe was born in Elkhorn, W.Va. September 5, 1930 to the late George and Naomi Pickett Williams.

You've never truly had a stinky round of golf until you've played the Meadowbrook Open in eastern Montgomery County.

Meredith Novak, manager at the Shawsville Farmers Market, rings in with this update: Come join us at Shawsville Farmers Market this Saturday from 9am-noon in front of Meadowbrook! The following vendors will be there: Brush Creek Aquaponics Sandy and Ralph will have homemade greeting cards , soap , soothing milk bath, Autumn decorating items, and ...

Master Deputy Chris Lucas teaches students the dangers of drugs and alcohol. Shawsville Elementary School fifth-grader Brooke Smith looks at a DARE book during a presentation.

When Master Deputy Chris Lucas asked a Shawsville Elementary School class what they had learned during their first day of the DARE program, hands flew up.

Trout in the Classroom, a national environmental education program of Arlington-based Trout Unlimited, has grown to 100 classrooms this school year.

In a string of changes that took place at the Christiansburg Police Department last week, two officers have been promoted to the rank of captain.

Student-to-teacher ratios at many area schools are above Montgomery County Public Schools' goals.

Dwindling participation and a drop in donations forced the Boys and Girls Club to leave last year.

Here is the weekly release from Meredith Novak, market manager: Come see us at the Shawsville Farmers Market this Saturday from 9am-noon in front of Meadowbrook! The following vendors will be there: Bradshaw Creek Studio Tina will have photographic prints of local and regional interest as well as a few international travel photos.

Six Montgomery County elementary and middle schools were not visited twice last year.