Yesterday the county Board of Supervisors announced that Google has purchased 314 acres from the business complex known as the Botetourt Cen...

  The brick buildings to the left will stay. What's left of the structure as of Sunday. The Botetourt County Courthouse demolition conti...

About 50 years ago, the Botetourt County Courthouse in nearby Fincastle burned down. I only have a vague memory of it happening, but my fath...

Yesterday, the Botetourt County Historical Society, Inc. held its 16th Founders Day Dinner at Virginia Mountain Vineyards in Fincastle. A fe...

 

We had my mother-in-law up for hot dogs and watermelon at lunch yesterday.  Then later, my father called and said he had a bag of plums he...

Update: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-- SUSPECT IDENTIFIED IN SPORTS COMPLEX SPRAY PAINTING VANDALISM FINCASTLE, VA – The Botetourt County Sheriff’s...

In about 3 hours, the county Board of Supervisors meets to pass a budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The tax rate will be lowered at least...

As I am writing this, there is a man outside with my husband tearing out the old heat pump and preparing to install a new one. This was a su...

My morning routine was interrupted by a notice from a friend that there had been vandalism - again - at the local sports complex and element...

On Saturday, March 23, I went to the Fincastle Library to hear a local author talk about her book, West of Santillane . The book is about Ju...

At some point around the first of this week, the last of the rasp that I'd been living with as an excuse for a larynx for well over a mo...

As I headed over to my father's the other day, I noticed that the cement plant is building a new mountain. Maybe it's just a really ...

The evening took us away from our house and to an event hall filled with people, many of whom we knew. The occasion was the celebration of a...

As of this posting, my county library has received formal reconsideration requests (requests to remove) to review 13 titles. Here are some s...

Mother's Day I don't recall when I last dreaded a Mother's Day so much as this one. There was no reason to dread it, particularl...

Botetourt County in July, 2022 (this year), dedicated a memorial to Colonel William Preston (1729-1783) next to the Botetourt County Adminis...

For Thursday Thirteen today, we're visiting the Botetourt History Museum, which has a new location in the county seat. The former locati...