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SBIR award Blacksburg firm to work on Navy project

Chrysalis Center a Home for All Beliefs

The owner of a new store and meditation center on Main Street hopes her shop will foster understanding and learning of many faiths and cultures. The Chrysalis Center and meditation center sells items from around the world, including tapestries, jewelry, clothing and books.

What Do People Know About S.W. Va.?

I wonder what many in the Washington, D.C., area, other parts of Virginia, and the rest of the world visualize when they think about Southwest Virginia. From my conversations, if they even have a perception, it's usually agriculture, Appalachia, railroads and coal mines.

Fairlawn Sewer Rates Set to Rise

Letters went out Monday to Fairlawn residents and businesses detailing proposed sewer rate increases of more than 60 percent. For residential customers, rates will increase from a flat rate of $13 per month to $23 per month.

3 Things You Should Do Today

1 Eat ice cream. StellarOne and Cold Stone Creamery are joining forces to beat heart disease. A percentage of total ice cream sales from 5 to 8 p.m. will be donated to the Start! NRV Heart Walk. 2 Got geese? Resident Canada goose season opens today. Hunting hours are from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset through Sept. 19.

Radford Shops Gearing Up for College Students

The end of August means one thing in Radford: the beginning of school. Radford University started classes Monday after moving in over the weekend.

Building Permits

B&P Remodeling/ Bishop & Price Building & Repair, 1717 Second St., new dwelling, single-family structure, $73,000 Michael Zimmerman, Zimmerman Construction, 307 Windsor St., new dwelling, single-family structure, $60,000

Health Inspectors Neglect 6 Area Schools

The local health department failed to inspect food safety in six Montgomery County schools' cafeterias twice in the past school year, as a federal law mandates. Price's Fork, Shawsville and Belview elementary schools, and Blacksburg, Christiansburg and Shawsville middle schools did not meet with the minimum of two food safety inspections in the 2008- 09 school year required under the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004.

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Giles Co. Towns to Combine Sewer Services

The federal government will provide more than $6 million in grants and loans to connect the Rich Creek and Glen Lyn sewage systems and expand the Glen Lyn sewage plant to serve both towns. U.S. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, said last week he arranged for the money to be provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Agency.

Public Pulse

Christiansburg What: Town council

Eastern Montgomery High School Team Spirit

Varsity roster Alex Allen, junior