Cardinal News: Then & Now takes a look back at the stories we brought you over the last 12 months. Through the end of the year, we’re sharing updates on some of the people and issues that made news in 2025. This installment: expansion of the Roanoke River Greenway.
Almost exactly two years after its construction began, a new 0.6-mile section of the West Roanoke River Greenway was introduced last month by Roanoke County and the city of Salem. It’s just one of multiple projects the county completed in 2025, adding a total of 2.95 miles to the greenway system this year.
At a ribbon-cutting event held at the new trailhead parking lot in early November, Roanoke County Administrator Richard Caywood said this project on the west end of the greenway was one of the first things he worked on when he moved to the area in 2004, though he was working for the Virginia Department of Transportation at the time…