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Articles by Anthony Giorgetti
Gifts that Matter
The story below is a preview from our November/December 2025 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Support local nonprofits by giving time, treasure or talent to organizations that bring joy, comfort and care to the Roanoke community. Though Thanksgiving holds the official slot on the calendar, for many professionals, it’s the days in its immediate wake that take up the most space in the brain.
A Legacy of Compassion
The story below is from our July/August 2025 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! When cancer made transportation a barrier to treatment, Becky Pollard turned pain into purpose —and now her son carries on the mission to get patients to care, one ride at a time. A cancer diagnosis brings up a lot of fear: the disease itself, the time-consuming, expensive, often exhausting and painful chemo and an uncertain future.
Blue Ridge Hydroponics Partners with Roanoke College
The story below is from our March/April 2025 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Collaboration between a local business and the school provides hands-on learning for future cannabis entrepreneurs. Over the course of centuries, cannabis went from textile to drugstore staple to Class 1 narcotic to its current spot as a gray-area legal drug that the American majority now view as helpful or harmless.
Furry Friends Welcome
The story below is a preview from our March/April 2025 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Discover the best places to enjoy with your furry friends in Roanoke. Virginia may be for lovers, but Roanoke is for pet lovers! And that’s never been truer than it is today. As workers returned to the office and businesses opened their offices to post-pandemic pets, the rest of the world has followed suit.
Outdoor Adventure Awaits
The story below is a preview from our March/April 2025 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! From laid-back strolls and hikes to thrill-seeking water fun, Roanoke’s great outdoors has it all. Outdoor thrill seekers and nature lovers travel the globe to enjoy Roanoke’s hiking and biking trails. Yet many locals are unaware of the beauty and fun beneath their noses.
Healing Hearts (& Hooves)
The story below is from our March/April 2025 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! At Our Someday Farms, rescued animals and people alike find comfort, care and a sense of belonging. From the street, Vinton’s Our Someday Farms appears like any house — unless you catch a glimpse of the donkeys, horses, goats, pigs and more that call it home.
More Than a House
The story below is a preview from our November/December 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! As Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southwest Virginia celebrates 40 years, it continues to offer a lifeline of comfort and support to families far from home during their most challenging times.
Generations of Style
The story below is from our September/October 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! A glimpse into the Edwards family school, a downtown Roanoke institution since the 1960s, where tradition, community service and resilience are woven into every haircut. When you imagine a barbershop, you likely picture two to three stools with a couple of guys talking and a couple more waiting their turn, a la Mayberry or the “Barber Shop” films.
Heart-Centered Healing
The story below is from our July/August 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! The oldest home in Salem now houses New Age business GLOW Healing Arts. People may find it an ironic dichotomy that perhaps the most New Age business in Salem is housed in the oldest home. But when you look at the home’s history and see the appreciation of the practitioners’ relationship to the building, you’ll see that GLOW Healing Arts fits quite well into Preston House.
Fostering Love & Hope
The story below is a preview from our July/August 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Foster care and adoption changes children’s lives, one family at a time. Bryson is a 16-year-old high school student who loves anime and has recently become interested in drawing. (He’s currently perfecting eyes.) Like most kids his age, he’s begun thinking about what he’ll do after graduation, and he’s narrowed it down to landscaping or art school.
Raise a Glass
The story below is a preview from our May/June 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! The region’s artisanal drink scene features handcrafted spirits, beers and more. Virginia is for lovers, and Southwest Virginia is for craft spirit lovers. Roanoke itself is home to half a dozen breweries and a distillery.
Pawsitively Welcoming
The story below is a preview from our March/April 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! These pet-friendly businesses are making tails wag across the city! There’s nothing more welcoming when you return home than a dog’s wagging tail or a purring cat rubbing against your leg with a “kitty hug.” So why wait? Pet-friendly perks make a workplace more appealing.
From Science Fair to Wildfire
The story below is a preview from our March/April 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Margaret Key’s environmental journey, from a chance science fair project to firefighting on the frontlines, unfolds as she advocates for nature and warns of climate change’s impact on Virginia. Listen up, kids: The rest of your life might hinge on your next science fair. Margaret Key spent 27 years working for Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality.
Paw Patrol
The story below is a preview from our March/April 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Four-legged heroes are guardians of valor in Roanoke’s police K9 alliances. A dog can be different things to different people: a best friend and companion who is there when you need it, a source of safety when someone means you harm, a valuable worker who knows its job well and does it better than anyone or even something to fear. Police K9s in Roanoke are all of these and more.
Culinary Olympian
The story below is a preview from our January/February 2024 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! A five-course story on Roanoke’s role in the biggest culinary competition on the planet.
The Gauntlet Challenge
The story below is a preview from our November/December 2023 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! The Advancement Foundation’s Gauntlet competition helps develop and launch small businesses right here in the region. Roanoke is known for its trails and the star that provides its nickname.
Roanoke's Curling Club Hits the Ice
Outside of our neighbors to the North, the word curling probably brings to mind hair or maybe even weight-lifting. Even those Roanokers who know of the sport likely have a casual relationship with it from the Winter Olympics or perhaps the comedically botched assassination attempt on Ringo Starr in the Beatles' film Help! And chances are, you wonder what those brooms are for. North of the border in Canada and in some of the colder U.S. States, it's a lot bigger than that.
Haitian Food Adds to Local Restaurant Scene
In recent years, Roanoke has been catering more and more to the adventurous palette, with our growing immigrant community bringing delicious dishes from their home countries and other local chefs putting their own spin on traditional "American" cuisines. Now we can add Haitian food to our list of nationalities serving up tasty grub from their home countries as Romieal and Yurose Romeus have opened Cuisine Kreyol at 2942 Hershberger Rd NW, in the space formerly occupied by Vina Café beside UHaul.
A Caring Coach
The story below is from our May/June 2023 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Joe Gaither celebrates his incredible history as athlete, coach and good human in his new book. Coach Joe Gaither has been a fixture of the Roanoke Valley for decades, beginning with his time as a star athlete for GW Carver and Andrew Lewis as a youth, to his coaching ICAA and AAU teams at Roanoke Catholic to championships as a coach and time as a deacon at Shenandoah Baptist Church in Salem.
A Helping Paw
The story below is a preview from our March/April 2023 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! From hospitals to funeral homes, therapy dogs offer emotional support, education and more. "It takes a long time to get anywhere with Marshall!” laughs Julie Blanchard, volunteer manager for Carilion, while boarding the elevator.
Anthony Giorgetti
Anthony Giorgetti
Roa-mantic Roanoke
We already know Virginia is for lovers. But is Roanoke romantic? There are a few date standards that nearly everyone who’s been on a date has experienced – your dinners, your movies, your coffee or your Netflix and Chill. And while there’s nothing wrong with any of those dates, we wanted to pick some uniquely Roanoke dates for a Roa-mantic Valentine's Day. So here are four such options. Selected because they’re not traditional dates, you can’t find this fun just anywhere.
Pandemic Pivots
The story below is from our January/February 2023 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! Local businesses got creative in the face of pandemic challenges. Everything changed in 2020. But even as the COVID numbers rose, businesses needed to remain afloat while keeping their employees and customers safe. That includes the smart, savvy and downright creative adjustments that businesses made to thrive in a COVID and eventual post-COVID world.
Welcome, Ambassadors!
The story below is from our November/December 2022 issue. For more stories like it, Subscribe Today. Thank you! A new Downtown Roanoke, Inc. program launches efforts to keep downtown cleaner, friendlier and easier to navigate. Does downtown seem a little friendlier? In September, Downtown Roanoke Inc.
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