Later this week, a competition will bring high school students to the Taubman Museum of Art. Their medium is metal sculpture. And their techniques were honed in local welding programs.
Mary Alcoke, a first-grade teacher at Penn Forest Elementary School, has been named the 2023 teacher of the year by the Roanoke County Public Schools Education Foundation.
Marianne Nester and Mandy Churchill have, respectively, won the Roanoke County Public Schools Education Foundation’s 2020 and 2021 Golden Apple awards, the highest honor available annually to a teacher in