For the fifth year in a row, Roanoke County has been recognized for its innovative use of technology
If you live in Roanoke County, you may take for granted that you can go online and pay taxes, apply for a burn permit, reserve a picnic shelter in a park, or read all the background information for the board of supervisors' agenda.
Those and myriad other Internet-based services are luxuries that residents of many other counties in Virginia and elsewhere don't have, although such services are slowly spreading even to more rural areas, according to Gage Harter, director of communications for the Virginia Association of Counties.