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All you need is Love (signs) > There's more LOVE in the region – one of the newest LOVEwork signs in the Commonwealth was recently unveiled at Natural Bridge State Park outside the visitor's center. A grant from the Virginia Tourism Corporation helped pay for the sign. Local artist Mark Cline designed and created the LOVE letters for the Natural Bridge version. There are now more than 200 LOVE signs statewide.
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Major facelift completed > The Hotel Roanoke has completed a multimillion-dollar renovation of its Pine Room restaurant - along with creation of a new Lobby Bar nearby. The project also includes more seating outdoors. The Pine Room Kitchen is no longer in the basement, which meant customer orders had to be transported upstairs to be served. The Lobby Bar work included restoration of ceiling to the night sky mural that was present there until the late 1930’s. Hotel General Manager Brian Wells says the pandemic partial shutdown did allow the work to go on with less disruption to guests. “That’s probably the one silver lining in this; we were able to do heavy construction at a time where that side of the hotel could be left vacant.”
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