Over the past couple of years, nonprofit Community Housing Partners of Christiansburg, Va., has spent about $2 million to rehabilitate the 73-unit Oak Hill Apartments, a complex of low-income apartments just west of North Main Street. On Monday, residents and officials cut a ribbon to celebrate the end of that work, which preserved the town’s largest affordable rental housing property. Read the full story and see photos in REAL ESTATE & HOME»

Firefighters investigated a number of smoke scares this week, including a kitchen fire reported by a neighbor at the Oak Hill Apartments on Beaty Street. Also this week, a Davidson College elevator’s hydraulic pump began to smoke after it overheated, and the contents of a dumpster ignited off Ridge Road. Traffic accidents and malfunctioning alarms rounded out the fire calls. A tally of the week’s medical calls also may be found below. Read the full story

The Oak Hill Apartments are low-income housing off Beaty Street (David Boraks/DavidsonNews.net)

Town officials and the owners of the 73-unit Oak Hill Apartments off Beaty Street will cut a ribbon Monday morning to mark the long-awaited completion of renovations at the low-income apartment complex. The project has been five years in the making, and with town, state and federal help, has helped preserve one of the town’s few affordable rental housing options. Read the full story