IP*Works! Version 8.0 RSS Component http://backend.userland.com/rss2 The Roanoke Times: New River Valley News from the Roanoke Times http://www.roanoke.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT roanoke.com/The Roanoke Times http://www.roanoke.com/wrapper/images/bottom_logo.gif http://www.roanoke.com Being held by nature - roanoke.com <br><p>One of my favorite places on our farm is not the high knoll with its 360-degree view, or the pond with its shimmering mirror of fall leaves, or the wooded hill with its huge white oaks. </p> <p>I love all these places. Love to find the different shades of light filtering over them through each season. Love the air that stirs the orchard grass, the energy demanded to know these places and the liveliness given in return. </p> http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/columns/journal/wb/227196 A year later, First &amp; Main's promise still largely unfilled - roanoke.com About a quarter of the Blacksburg center is unoccupied, and major traffic-drivers remain absent.<br><p><b>|</b> Jeff Sturgeon</p> <p><a href="mailto: jeff.sturgeon@roanoke.com"> jeff.sturgeon@roanoke.com</a>, 381-1661</p> <p>BLACKSBURG -- At First &amp; Main one morning, women toted bags out of upscale clothing shops. Inside a sweet-smelling shop, a chocolatier poured truffles. </p><a href="http://oas.roanoke.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.cgi/www.roanoke.com/rss/1124749@Position4"><img src="http://oas.roanoke.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.roanoke.com/rss/1124749@Position4" alt="Advertisement"></img></a> http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/227211