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Ahhh downtown Blacksburg: where everybody knows your name, or in some people?s case... ?that drunk girl who fell and hit her head on the pavement.? The bars downtown are like ...
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR) — The streets of Downtown Blacksburg were transformed into a swarm of nearly 40,000 people on Friday and Saturday at the 43rd annual “Steppin’ Out,” festival hosted ...
BLACKSBURG — Town residents and business owners got a look this week at renderings of what downtown could look like in the future .
Police tape surrounding the area near Melody Hookah Lounge in downtown Blacksburg, where authorities said a shooting broke out late Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. (WSLS 10) ...
Blacksburg's population is down nearly 30,000 people after most Virginia Tech students went home for the summer. ... The late-night atmosphere of Downtown Blacksburg tends to go when the students do.
Blacksburg is walkable. It’s even park-able, especially after students have left as most will on Dec. 21 when classes go virtual. The first thing to know is The Rule: Everyone ...
A longtime Downtown Blacksburg business is closing this week, joining several others including another staple of the New River Valley that could not stay open. The Clothes Rack has been open for ...
A local nonprofit group and a town grant program plan to provide funds for interior and exterior renovations for downtown Blacksburg merchants beginning in 2009.
Consultants sometimes get a bad rap, but Development Strategies helped Blacksburg Mayor Leslie Hager-Smith realize something about her town of roughly 45,000 people. “One of the very first things they ...
On Tuesday at 10:30 p.m., while officers were performing a welfare check in downtown Blacksburg at 119 N. Main Street they found a man who had died, according to the Blacksburg Police Department.
BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Businesses in downtown Blacksburg now have the opportunity to make their businesses look more appealing and inviting on the outside. From painting to brick laying ...
RELATED: Employee hides customers inside shop after shots fired in Downtown Blacksburg. In Richmond, lawmakers remembered the life of the 18-year-old shot and killed that night.