Consider borrowing 40Million Dollars to build a middle school and gymnasium for students in the northwestern part of the county. Wdbj7s tim saunders is live in bedford with a preview of tonights meeting. Jean, School Leaders have been talking about this project for a long time and tonight theyre hoping they need to move forward. Supervisors will consider a resolution on construction of a school and a competition gym for 40million of that amount would be borrowed. The board cast a similar vote last june, limiting the project to 38million. Since then three new members have been elected. Some members of the school board have said the project cant be done for 38million and tonight theyll get support from parents like john messier, who plans to speak at the meeting in favor of the larger amount. John messier parent we need to let the five supervisors who are in favor of the project at 100 of the funding know that we support them and appreciate that, and the other two supervisors we need to
Candidates have scheduled events in our state before the march 1st. Primary. Donald trump will take part in regent universitys president ial candidate series on wednesday. Ben carson will also be at that series next monday. Todays event with john kasich starts at 6 30 p. M. Super tuesday is close and that means several deadlines are coming up for voters who want to participate. Since you can vote absentee in primaries, the deadline to request a mailed absentee ballot is tomorrow at 5pm. The deadline to vote absentee in person is february 27th. You can only vote in one Political Party primary election when multiple Party Primaries are held on the same day. Voting Officials Say make sure your voter details are correct now. Andrew cochran city of roanoke director of elections you can go to electionsdot virginiadot gov and in the upper lefthand corner is a red box that says citizen portal you can go in, put in your information and it will pull up your correct Voter Registration information
Hirsbrunner. Rain this morning followed by heavier rain wednesday. Flooding concerns increase by midweek. As an investigation continues, students at Hargrave Military Academy are back to their normal schedule. Message was recieved over social media last week with possible ties to isis, the campus shut down for the weekend. Law enforcement spent the weekend patroling the area and students were allowed to go home. School leaders say schedules are back to normal and there are no updates on the investigation. Pittsylvania county sheriffs officers say they are aggressively following up on many different leads. The man accused of abducting and killing teenager Nicole Lovell now has a new attorney. David eisenhauer hired Tony Anderson from roanoke to represent him in court. The Montgomery County juvenile and domestric Relations Court confirmed the change yesterday morning. Eisenhauer was first appointed christiansburg attorney chris tuck by the court. Natalie keepers is also charged in lovell
Work scheduled for interchange project postponed because of the weather. Vdot announced that lane closures would be put in place from tonight until to 6 tomorrow morning for the northbound lanes of interstate 58. Exit 3c off i 581 was also scheduled to be closed for three vdot says it will reschedule the work. New at noon david bowers will not run for congress. Seeking the nomination for the 9th district congressional seat, which is currently held by republican morgan griffith. Bowers says he decided not to run, because he couldnt overcome the thought of representing a district where he doesnt live. He announced in november that he would not run for re election as mayor of roanoke. Instead, he says he plans to re open his law practice fulltime. The murder trial for Demetrius Wade is scheduled to start today in roanoke. He is charged with two counts of murder, after a shooting on shenandoah avenue in january of last year. Two men died in that shooting, and four others got hurt. Another
You can see a couple tents here but for the most part the sidewalks are visible again. Most of the people here have left the area. The citys Public Health department ordered people to disperse by 72 hours, 5 00 today, saying this was a, quote, public nuisance. The Health Department said it found unsanitary conditions including human waste and hypodermic needles. Ive seen like i guess 80 of the people, more than 80, i guess 90 vacate. 90 of the People Living here in tents took their tents and left . Right. We went a few blocks away from here, division of van ness. They were ordered to vacate by friday. There are about 25 tents left down from about 130 a week ago. That order that the Health Department put out, it had the tone of a police sweep. It was essentially a threat that the police would come out here and help with some sort of evacuation but that sweep never really materialized for the most part. The city had people out here doing homeless outreach. They put up their notices. And